Convocation 2025

Convocation is a time to formally acknowledge and celebrate your educational successes with your family, friends, classmates and the Selkirk College community.

Date: Thursday, May 22, 2025!

Cost: $50

Registration: Please RSVP by Friday, May 2. To attend Convocation, you must RSVP by this date.

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Have questions about Convocation? Browse some FAQs.

Frequently Asked Questions About Convocation

Ceremonies

There are two ceremonies. Be sure to note which ceremony you will participate in.

Morning Ceremony: 10 am

Academic Upgrading & Development

Business

Environment & Geomatics

Selkirk International

University Arts & Sciences

Morning timeline

Timeline

8–9:30 am: Registration, Check-In and Gown (Main Campus Doors)

Welcome to Convocation!
 

  • Start at registration. You will receive a card with your name and program on it. This will be your ticket for getting on stage.
  • You will be directed to The Pit to pick up your gown, cap, tassel and stole.
  • You now look like a grad! Head to your student meeting room and wait to be called to the gym. 
9:40–9:55 am: Line Up for the Procession
  • You will be called to line up in the hallway leading from the main door. Your position in the line is important! You will be seated in the gym and called on stage according to this order.
9:55 am: Procession into the Gym
  • Drummers lead gowned employees and students into the gym.
  • Please keep in formation and follow the directions of your ushers.
  • Students are seated.
10 am: Ceremony 
  • Selkirk College Community Drummers
  • President's Welcome
  • Speeches
  • Students guided to walk across the stage.
11–11:30 am: Post-Ceremony Photo
11:30–12:30 pm: Gown Return
  • Please return your gown and stole to the cafeteria by 12:30 pm. If it is not returned, you will be charged $300 per item outstanding. 

Afternoon Ceremony: 1 pm

Arts & Technology 

Health & Human Services

Hospitality & Tourism

Industry & Trades

 

Afternoon timeline

Timeline

11:30 am–12:30 pm: Registration, Check-In and Gown (Main Campus Doors)

Welcome to Convocation! 
 

  • Start at registration. You will receive a card with your name and program on it. This will be your ticket for getting on stage.
  • You will be directed to The Pit to pick up your gown, cap, tassel and stole.
  • You now look like a grad! Head to your student meeting room and wait to be called to the gym. 
12:40–12:55 pm: Line Up for the Procession
  • You will be called to line up in the hallway leading from the main door. Your position in the line is important! You will be seated in the gym and called on stage according to this order.
12:55 pm: Procession into the Gym
  • Drummers lead gowned employees and students into the gym.
  • Please keep in formation and follow the directions of your ushers.
  • Students are seated.
1:00 pm: Ceremony
  • Selkirk College Community Drummers
  • President's Welcome
  • Speeches
  • Students guided to walk across the stage.
3–3:30 pm: Post-Ceremony Photo
3:30–4 pm: Gown Return
  • Please return your gown and stole to the cafeteria by 4 pm. If it is not returned, you will be charged $300 per item outstanding.

Student and Guest Information

  • This event will be livestreamed! This is a public event. Please be aware that you may appear in photo or video footage.
  • Please leave valuable items at home as there is no coat check.
  • There is plenty of parking and accessible parking is available. Attendants will direct you. 
  • Doors open to the gym for seating one hour before the ceremony. Seating is first come, first served.
  • Selkirk College is a scent-free area, even for Convocation. 
  • The cafeteria is closed. Limited drinks and snacks will be available for purchase in the bookstore. Water-filler stations will be available, please bring your water bottle.

Leading the Ceremony: Sturgeon Scale Paddle

An image of the Sturgeon Scale Paddle by the confluence of the rivers

The ceremony will be led by a Sturgeon Scale Paddle made by artist and scholar Shawn Brigman, PhD. Dr. Brigman is an enrolled member of the Spokane Tribe and a descendant of the Columbia Plateau First Nations: snʕáyckst (Sinixt), sənpʕʷilx (San Poil) and Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc (Shuswap).

Using materials from the land, the artist has beautifully captured the relationship between people, the land, and the rivers, lakes and mountains of the traditional territories on which Selkirk College is so honoured to operate. The seven sturgeon scales inscribed on the paddle signify the seven life teachings of humility, courage, honesty, wisdom, truth, respect and love.