Academic Convocation 2024
Convocation is an academic ceremony to formally welcome incoming students to Baylor University. It brings together administrators, faculty, and students to commemorate the start of the academic year, providing a bookend to commencement.
This year's verse: John 15:12-17
“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.
This year's Academic Convocation keynote:
Dr. Coretta Pittman, Associate Dean for Diversity and Belonging in Arts & Sciences and Associate Professor in the Department of English, will deliver this year's keynote address.
Calling all students, parents, faculty, and NSE instructors!
We want to welcome all incoming students to Baylor University and hope that you will join us for Academic Convocation, Friday, August 23, 2024 from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. in the Ferrell Center. Faculty, if you would like to participate in the Procession, please bring your academic regalia and gather in the Stone Room at the Ferrell Center by 9:30 am on Friday in order to line up for the procession.