The fifth WSSU December graduation ceremony, Dec. 16 at 4 p.m., will be the first held in the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
Each year the number of students participating in fall graduation ceremonies has increased. In 2004, a boost in the number of students graduating in the fall led university officials to schedule the ceremony at St. Peter’s World Outreach Center, a local church that seats 3,000 people, instead of the Kenneth R. Williams Auditorium that holds approximately 1,800 people.
This year, the increase led to graduation exercises being scheduled at the LJVM Coliseum.