Registrar's Office
Graduation Information
Great Falls College’s 2025 Commencement Ceremony is Saturday, May 10, at 2 p.m. at the Montana ExpoPark’s Pacific Steel & Recycling Arena in Great Falls, MT.
When making the decision to attend the commencement ceremony, please consider the importance of this event. By completing your program, you have proven to yourself and to the world that you have the intelligence and fortitude to accomplish your goals. This event marks an important milestone in your life, and we truly hope you will choose to be part of this celebration as we honor your achievements along with those of your fellow classmates.
To attend the in-person ceremony, you must RSVP.
Ceremony Information
Accommodations
Please contact Kathy Meier, director of Academic Support and
Accessibility at Great Falls College, if you require accommodations for you or
your family members.
- Especially requests pertaining to seating for mobility impaired
- Those needing sign language interpreter
- Family floor level seating.
Kathy can be reached at (406) 771-4311 or Sorenson Video Relay, (406) 205-1079 or [email protected].
Please watch for signage upon entering the graduation venue, and you will be directed to the seating area. Please note that guests sitting in this area will be allowed only one other person to sit with them, due to the limited amount of seating available.
Academic Regalia (Cap and Gown information)
Caps, gowns and commencement announcements may be purchased through the Great Falls College Bookstore. Use this form to order your Cap and Gown or the Josten’s website, jostens.com. Questions? Contact the Bookstore at [email protected] or call at (406) 771-4367.
Honors cords will be handed out before the ceremony to students who earned High Honors (GPA of 3.75-4.00) or Honors (GPA of 3.50-3.74). To determine these honors, each student’s GPA at the conclusion of Fall 2024 semester will be used.
All degree candidates or credential recipients participating in the ceremony must wear academic regalia. Mortar boards may be embellished, within reason and using appropriate discretion. If embellishments are deemed inappropriate, however, you will be asked to not wear them in the ceremony. Adornment to gowns is not allowed. Honors cords are authorized to be worn as part of the regalia. Appropriate clothing should be worn beneath the regalia. Those who are not dressed properly will be asked to leave the assembly area and will not be allowed to participate.
Note: Please leave any valuables at home as there is no way to secure valuables while the ceremony is taking place.
Honors
As a way to recognize academic achievement, candidates for graduation with high academic honors are presented with double gold cords, and candidates for graduation with honors are presented with single gold cords.
Honors levels are based on all higher education work completed at the time the program was printed. This does not include work completed at the end of Spring Semester. If work completed at the end of Spring Semester changed any honors levels, every effort has been made to provide the proper cords, and the new honors levels will be read as the graduates are introduced.
The Red Cord Honors Program is designed to recognize students, faculty or staff who have donated blood at least three times during the school year through the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross then awards a red honor cord that they may wear during their commencement, with their school’s permission.
The candidates selected by their department faculty to lead department graduates in this ceremony are also indicated by stoles.
The list of graduates included on the commencement program is not intended to be used as an official indication of graduation and/or honors. The diploma of the college and the official transcript, signed and sealed by the proper officers, provide authentic testimony of the conferring of a degree and honors.
Phi Theta Kappa Regalia
Candidates for graduation who are members of Phi Theta Kappa, the College’s honor society, are presented with identifying insignia indicating membership in Phi Theta Kappa.
