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Graduates check-in at the Pavilion Gym. Must have RSVp'd and have event QR code.

You must be at the SMC Pavilion by 3:00 p.m. to check-in with your QR code.  A photo identification is required. You will receive your name card for the ceremony. DO NOT LOSE THE NAME CARD as it will be used to call your name on stage at the ceremony.  Late arrivals will be turned away. No person may substitute for you at the ceremony. Only graduating students may participate and must wear the SMC graduation cap and gown. Do not bring any valuables to the ceremony. Purses and backpacks cannot be carried with you. You may check-in small items for safe- keeping (guarded by College Police staff) at the Pavilion. Items can be picked up immediately following the ceremony (no later than 8:30 p.m. as the Pavilion will close at this time). Friends and family cannot accompany you at the Pavilion. They should go directly to Corsair Field and take their seats. Gates open at 3:00 p.m.

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Admission is free. RSVPs not required.

The entrance gates to Corsair Field will open at 2:00 p.m.. They are located on 16^th Street, between Pico Blvd., and Pearl St. Guests are encouraged to arrive no later than 3:30 p.m. and to dress appropriately for the weather. The ceremony will start at 4:00 p.m. General admission seating is stadium seating and are not wheelchair accessible.  Limited seating for guests requiring accessible seating is available on a first come, first served basis. Guests should enter through Gates 1 and 5.

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Graduates line up at the Campus Quad - in front of the Cayton Center/Library - and process toward Corsair Field, guided by event Marshals.

All activity booths will close at this time. You will be asked to line up in four separate lines. Two lines will enter Corsair Field, where the ceremony is held, from the north gate and the other two lines will enter from the south gate. If you requested a special accommodation, please line up at the front of the line heading north. Signs will point you to each line. Bachelor’s degree graduates will line up at the front of both lines but will sit all together once at Corsair Field. Students graduating with an Associate Degree or a Certificate will follow. Marshals will lead each line to Corsair Field. Once at Corsair Field, Pomp and Circumstance will play in the background and the streaming of the ceremony online will start. Marshals will tell you where to sit and will fill one row at a time at the Corsair Field bleachers. Watch the rows as you are sitting down to ensure you are not leaving space between you and the next graduate. Sit down as soon as you arrive at your seat in the bleachers.

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Prelude: Corsair Overture.

Platform party, faculty, and staff in regalia process toward Corsair Field. Hold at the Field's gate.

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Processional: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 — Sir Edward Elgar.

Commencement Ceremony Processional starts. Platform party, faculty, staff, and graduates process at Corsair Field toward their seats.

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Superintendent/President Kathryn, E. Jeffery presides.

Other speakers include SMC Board of Trustees Chair, Dr. Margaret Quiñones-Perez; Academic Senate President, Jamar London; and Graduating Student, Patrisia Diaz Maldonado.