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Commencement 2025 LiveStream

The Commencement Ceremony for the Class of 2025 will be held on Thursday, May 22, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, LIU Post Campus, 720 Northern Boulevard in Brookville, NY.

Commencement Awards Ceremony LiveStream

The Touro Law Center Commencement Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center Auditorium

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Commencement 2025 Information

The Commencement Ceremony for the Class of 2025 will be held on Thursday, May 22, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. at the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, LIU Post Campus, 720 Northern Boulevard in Brookville, NY.

Tickets, Caps, and Gowns

1. Tickets for the Commencement Ceremony are available for pickup from the Administration Office in Room 404. Please email events@tourolaw.edu to let us know if you are unable to pick up your tickets. If you cannot pickup your tickets in advance, we will bring your tickets to the Tilles Center so you can pick them up from the information table.

2. Caps, gowns, and hoods are ready for pickup. If you do not pick up your cap and gown from the Law Center by Monday, May 19th, we will bring yours to the Commencement Ceremony. We suggest you pick up prior to, in order to try on and steam your gown!

3. The caps, gowns, and hoods for guest hooders will be at the Tilles Center in the Robing Room. Guest Hooders are expected to arrive at the Tilles Center no later than 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 22.

General Information

Graduates will report to the Tilles Center Main Entrance, no later than 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, May 22, 2025.

Doors to the Tilles Center will open for guests at 12:45 p.m. Tilles Center personnel will be available to assist disabled guests with entrance to the theater and appropriate seating.

A Touro Law Center Information Table will be in the lobby of the Tilles Center and will be staffed with volunteers who will be able to assist students and guests.

Faculty Marshals will assist with organizing the student procession. Your cooperation is needed and will be greatly appreciated so the student procession will be orderly and ready to enter the theater on time.

The Commencement Exercises will begin at 1:00 p.m. sharp. It is your responsibility to be in place in the line to march no later than 12:30 p.m. ready to enter the hall precisely at 1:00 p.m.

Academic Attire: All graduates wear the Touro Law Center cap and gown. The hood will be carried over the left arm until the appropriate time in the ceremony when graduates are hooded. Students graduating with honors wear gold honor cords. (No other cords are permitted during the Commencement Ceremony. Only official honoree stoles are permitted to be worn at commencement. This includes TAPS, Law Review, and Moot Court only.

You must have your cap, gown, and hood with you. Hairpins are helpful to hold caps in place. Please have family members take charge of personal items, handbags, etc. Attire appropriate for the occasion is requested. Graduation gowns can be exceptionally warm on a hot day – graduates may be more comfortable without suit jackets.

Professional photographs will be taken of each graduate during the ceremony. You will be sent proofs of your individual and class pictures for purchase. (Class photograph will be a composite of individual graduate, faculty, and administration photographs). We request that family or friends taking pictures not get in the way of the photographer. No other professional photographers may be in the theater.
Island Photography, Phone: 516-767-1234, Website: www.islandphoto.com

While we encourage the enthusiastic support of family and friends, graduates and their guests are expected to respect the solemnity and dignity of the occasion. Behavior that detracts from the ceremony will not be tolerated. We respectfully request that air horns not be brought into the theater. The noise interrupts and prolongs the ceremony and denies other graduates and their families the joy of hearing names announced. Violators of this request will be asked to leave the theater.

The Commencement Ceremony

Please pay close attention to Graduation coordinators and volunteers for directions.

  • The Commencement Herald will give directions to stand, be seated, etc.
  • Faculty Marshals lead the student portion of the Academic Procession into the theater.
  • Graduates are directed to their seats in the center front of the auditorium.
  • Graduates remain standing while the Academic Procession of Administrators, Faculty and Honored Guests enter the auditorium and ascend the stage.

The Commencement Exercises are declared open, and all are asked to rise for the National Anthem and to remain standing for the Invocation.

Speakers will deliver their remarks. After the speeches:

  • Groups of graduates will be presented by degree and completion date to Dr. Patricia Salkin for confirmation of the successful completion of degree requirements.
  • Graduates will stand when their group is called and approach the stage at the direction of graduation coordinators:
    •  December 2024 JD Graduates
    •  May 2025 JD Graduates
  • Upon ascending the stairs to the stage, graduates’ names will be called.
  • Graduates will cross to stage right to be hooded and photographed with their hooder.
  • Graduates will continue to stage right where a photograph will be taken with the Dean.
  • Graduates will stop before the steps for another photograph.
  • Graduates will then return to their seats.
  • All will be asked to rise for the Benediction.
  • Faculty Marshals will rejoin their graduate groups, and the Commencement Exercises will be
  • eclared closed.
  • The Academic Procession of Administrators, Faculty, and honored guests will leave the hall followed by the graduates.
  • There will be a Post-Commencement Reception with refreshments in the Atrium of the Tilles Center.

What if graduation requirements are not complete by May 22nd (the day of the Commencement Ceremony)?

All May 2025 graduates participating in the Commencement Ceremony are considered to be candidates for graduation. Diplomas are not distributed at the ceremony. All requirements must be complete by the degree conferral date – June 3, 2025.

Degree Conferral

Degrees for May 2025 graduates will be conferred on June 3, 2025. Immediately following the entry of degree information into the academic records system, diplomas will be ordered. It takes approximately 6 weeks for diplomas to be printed and mailed to graduates. Graduates will be notified, via Touro email, when degrees are conferred, and diplomas have been ordered.

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Commencement Awards Ceremony Information

The Touro Law Center Commencement Awards Ceremony
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 7:00 pm
Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center Auditorium

1. Please dress in your cap & gown for the awards ceremony.

2. If you are receiving an award, please arrive at Touro Law Center no later than 6:45 p.m. for check-in. Doors open for the award ceremony at 6:30 p.m.

3. Seating is limited; each awardee is allowed two guests into the awards ceremony. Tickets must be picked up from the Administrative Office, room 404, no later than May 19th at 5 pm. If you don’t pick up your tickets, they will be available at the student information desk the evening of the ceremony.

4. Only school-sanctioned stoles are permitted at the awards ceremony. This includes TAPS, Law Review, and Moot Court only.