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Be sure to review the Schedule for information on rehearsal, baccalaureate, and times when you need to line up for the procession.

Caps and Gowns

  • Graduates walking in the commencement ceremony are required to wear traditional graduation regalia. 
  • Tassels should be worn on the right until the degree is conferred. 
  • Caps and Gowns are black with burgundy and gray tassels.  Graduates may keep their caps, gowns and tassels as souvenirs.
  • All seniors (those who pre-ordered and those who have not yet ordered caps and gowns) should plan to stop by the campus bookstore on April 23 and 24 between 8AM and 7PM to pick up

    their caps and gowns.

    • The bookstore staff orders extra caps and gowns that

      are made available to students who have not placed an order.

      They are distrubuted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Announcements and class rings are available online at www.jostens.com/college.

  • Announcements ordered through the campus bookstore are buff with the college seal in maroon and gold.  They are sold on a first-come, first-served basis.

Account Balances: All accounts must be settled and all library books must be returned by noon on Friday, May 9.  Failure to do so will result in delays in receiving the diploma and forwarding transcripts.  Students with outstanding balances may not participate in the Commencement ceremony.

Career & Community Learning: The Career & Community Learning Office provides individual advising, assessment, career fairs and a series of workshops on a variety of career-related issues for both current students and alumni.  The Career Center also houses an extensive library of print and computer materials to help students and alumni search for jobs, explore careers, research graduate schools and connect to community service and internship opportunities.  The alumni Network is a database resource of the Career Center which includes the names of more than 1,500 Guilford alumni willing to help students and graduates in their career and life planning.  Please visit the website at www.guilford.edu/cacl.

Alumni Association:

The Guilford College Alumni Association and The Office of Alumni Relations warmly welcomes you into the extended Guilford community of over 22,000 alumni!  We will always be here to assist you in your efforts to stay connected, and make new connections, with your Guilford peers throughout the world!  We too, hope that you will continue to support your alma mater in a variety of ways throughout your lifetime as so many others before you have done.

There is a new way to help you make alumni connections:  Guilfordconnections.com

Before you graduate, take a few moments to log in, register, create your profile, include your resume, and even post a class note and perhaps a photo about your next adventure!   Also at this site, you may maintain an e-mail for life account @alumni.guilford.edu. 

At Guilfordconnections.com, you will be able to keep up with alumni events happening wherever you may be living.   You can search for Guilford alumni by major, class, and location!   You will be included in an expanded career partnership with other colleges and universities’ alumni. 

To sign up for our online community and e-mail for life, go to Guilfordconnections.com and click on “register now.”  After verifying your information, you may create your own username and password.  For your e-mail for life account, you will need an outside e-mail account (gmail, hotmail, roadrunner, etc.) to use as your forwarding address (if you already set one up for POP, then use that one).  When signing up for e-mail for life please make sure you select an email address you are happy with, because you will not be able to change it once you create it.  However, you will be able to change the e-mail address it forwards to at any time.  If you have any questions about the online community, e-mail for life, or services of the alumni office and association, please don’t hesitate to contact alumni@guilford.edu. 

Our online community is new, and we are just beginning to see its benefits.  Please be patient as the extended alumni family begins to use this tool with more frequency, and look for updates on all its services.

Again, we congratulate you and welcome you “officially” into our extended community.

 

Important information from ITS about your email and other accounts:

From Teresa Sanford

Associate Director, Application Development & Support

Information Technology & Services

You may be wondering what you need to do about your accounts and e-mail at Guilford upon graduation from Guilford.  We hope to answer your questions in the statements below and provide a timeline for convenience:

How long can I log into the computers? Your login account at Guilford will be active and accessible until June 12, 2008.  You will have access to the labs for login and share space, but not to printing. You are responsible for following the Network Acceptable Use Policy while accounts are open to you.  If you have setup remote access to Guilford via VPN and Citrix, then you will have access to your share space without coming to the labs. Make sure you either burn a CD to take files with you, or setup the VPN connection to simply drag and drop files from your sharespace to your personal computer.

How long do I get to keep my current student e-mail account? Your Notes accounts will remain active until June 12, 2008 from the client and the web. In the meantime, you will want to create another e-mail account (hotmail, roadrunner, gmail, etc.) and then following the directions to POP your mail to that account. After you have created your new e-mail account and setup POP, you will continue to receive messages sent to Guilford in your outside account until the account is removed.

Do we get alumni e-mail accounts?  You can stay connected to Guilford College by maintaining an Alumni E-mail for Life account @alumni.guilford.edu.  The accounts are ready now.  You will need an outside e-mail account (gmail, hotmail, roadrunner, etc.) to use as your forwarding address (if you already set one up for POP, then use that one).  However, your alumni e-mail account is only part of the greater online community we are providing for graduates of Guilford college.

Also included in the online community will be job and internship possibilities from Guilford graduates and other colleges and universities in an expanded career partnership, career and regional mentoring, the ability to search for alumni based on many different factors including major, class year, and location. You will be able to find and communicate with friends and other alumni as you journey after Guilford college.  You will also be able to keep up with alumni events happening wherever you may be living, and keep everyone updated with what is going on in your life with online class notes with the additional option to add photos. To sign up for our online community, please go to http://www.guilford.edu/emailforlife, and click on register now.  After verifying your information, you can create your own username and password.  When signing up for E-mail for Life please make sure you select an email address you are happy with, because you will not be able to change it once you create it.  However you will be able to change the e-mail address your E-mail for Life account forwards to at any time.  If you have any questions about the online community or E-Mail for Life, please don’t hesitate to email alumni@guilford.edu.  We look forward to having you as a part of our new online community as we expand it to the general alumni this summer.

Wait, I am coming back for a second major, or taking another class!  If you are enrolling at Guilford this Summer to complete a second major, take another class as a CCE student,  or are not graduating and are continuing at Guilford, please inform Teresa Sanford so your mail file, login and share space won't be removed on the designated day.

Let’s Summarize the Timeline for you:

Now to May 9

Not graduating, continuing as a CCE student, or switching from student to staff member?  Contact Teresa Sanford.

May 9 – June 11

Save copies of your sharespace work that you want to keep to a CD or copy them via a VPN login from home.  Setup a POP account from an outside e-mail address and pull your Guilford e-mail off the servers.

Now – June 11

Sign-up for Alumni E-Mail for Life Account using your preferred outside e-mail address.

June 1

E-mail will be sent to you as a reminder that you have 12 days left to complete all tasks prior to removal.

June 12

Login, Sharespace and Notes E-Mail removed from Guilford servers at 9:00 am.

IIf you have any questions, e-mail its@guilford.edu or phone the Help Desk at (336) 316-2115.  If you have questions regarding Alumni E-mail for Life, e-mail alumni@guilford.edu