{"id":77540,"date":"2026-04-06T10:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/?p=77540"},"modified":"2026-04-06T10:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:18:11","slug":"commencement-volunteers-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/commencement-volunteers-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement volunteers needed Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"elementToProof\">University Commencement volunteers and marshals are needed to serve for the Saturday ceremonies on May 9. <a id=\"OWA04849d9e-80ca-e998-0048-d6b9b07f7009\" class=\"x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/Ui0RAWwuZE\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/r\/Ui0RAWwuZE\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"1\" data-outlook-id=\"c679e0f4-c2fe-494c-85c2-59b76b5672b6\"><b><u>Fill out this form to indicate your availability for Commencement no later than April 17.\u00a0<\/u><\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><i>Volunteering at commencement is supported and encouraged by the Office of the President, including flexing time when a staff member volunteers outside of their normal working hours.\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><b>10 a.m.<\/b>\u202f:\u00a0College of the Environment, Forestry, and Natural Sciences | Steve Sanghi College of Engineering<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><b>3 p.m.<\/b>\u202f:\u00a0College of Social and Behavioral Sciences | NAU Yuma<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><b><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">The volunteer time commitment includes:<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Mandatory volunteer training: 11 a.m. to noon on Thursday, May 7<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Skydome walkthrough (optional): Noon to 12:30 Thursday, May 7<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Ceremony: Each ceremony is about 1.5-2 hours long. Total time commitment per ceremony is about four hours.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><b><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/b><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">The marshal time commitment includes:<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Mandatory marshal training: 2-3 p.m Thursday, May 7<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Ceremony: Each ceremony is around 1.5-2 hours long. Total time commitment per ceremony is about four hours.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">If you volunteer or marshal for both ceremonies, lunch is provided. Volunteers also will get <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a id=\"OWAd06afcb1-b916-5b89-11f5-fe14e743ed9a\" class=\"x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1MQScCn7yRokHEI91OElAi12x93f-zZxU\/view?usp=sharing\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1MQScCn7yRokHEI91OElAi12x93f-zZxU\/view?usp=sharing\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"2\" data-outlook-id=\"13894e9e-d785-47ef-876b-41e434eba14f\">a commencement volunteer tee.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Any questions can be directed to <a id=\"OWA361f6c30-5995-4291-5b14-fc7893235312\" class=\"x_x_x_x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"mailto:Halie.Swanson@nau.edu\" href=\"mailto:Halie.Swanson@nau.edu\" data-linkindex=\"4\" data-outlook-id=\"8cabc21f-9ede-462f-b704-e936da57b725\"><u>Halie.Swanson@nau.edu<\/u><\/a>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/commencement-volunteers-may-2026\/\">University Commencement volunteers and marshals are needed to serve for the Saturday ceremonies on May 9. Fill out this form to indicate your availability for Commencement no later than April 17.\u00a0 \u00a0 Volunteering at commencement is supported and encouraged by the Office of the President, including flexing time when a staff member volunteers outside of&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}