Celebrate Winter Conferral

Congratulations on completing your degree! While this past semester has been a challenging one as we continue to navigate impacts of the pandemic, it is time to celebrate your accomplishments as a graduating Buff. We are BuffsTogether, no matter where we are!

While no campuswide ceremony is held in winter, many individual schools, colleges, departments or programs will host virtual winter recognition ceremonies to celebrate our December graduates.

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Winter Recognition Ceremonies

Winter Grad Information

A Message from Chancellor DiStefano

A message from Dean of the Graduate School Scott Adler, Academic Affairs

Dear winter graduates:

I’d like to express my sincere congratulations to those receiving master’s and doctoral degrees this month.

Earning an advanced degree is a worthy and challenging pursuit, and there’s no doubt that you’ve worked extremely hard for this outstanding academic achievement. We recognize that you have completed your degree requirements during a particularly challenging time, and we commend your perseverance and grit in facing many unexpected obstacles this year.

Read Dean Adler's Full Message

A message from Dean of Students JB Banks, Student Affairs

To our senior Buffs who are graduating this semester—congratulations!

This semester hasn’t been easy, but you have worked hard and made it through. You’ve shown resilience and persevered through a difficult time. I am proud of you and you should be extremely proud of yourselves.

You are part of the Buff family wherever you are. And as a Forever Buff, I hope you’ll stay connected. As you begin this new chapter in your journey, there are still resources here to support you.

Read Dean Banks' Full Message

A message from Assistant Vice Chancellor Ryan Chreist, Alumni Association

Welcome to the alumni family, known as Forever Buffs. You are joining a community of over 300,000 alumni that live all over the world.

As new Forever Buffs, we want you to know that we are here to help you in your career and professional life. We have a new tool called the Forever Buffs Network that is a free online community where you can grow your career and professional network. By logging on to the Forever Buffs Network and completing your profile, you will find a community of Forever Buffs alumni that want to help you and all you need to do is connect with them.

Read AVC Chreist's Full Message

Let's Celebrate

How to set up a Zoom watch party…

Prior to Winter Degree Conferral, create a Zoom Meeting invitation and share the link with all your family and friends to join in the virtual celebration.
When you are all virtually together in the Zoom room, choose one person to open up their browser and go to the Winter 2020 Recognition Ceremonies page.
This person should find the recognition ceremony you wish to attend and navigate to their virtual ceremony page to start the online event.
In the Zoom room, click “Share Screen” and share your browser screen with all of your family and friends.
Make sure your shared screen has the winter recognition ceremony shown so all can see the event within the Zoom room.
Celebrate your hard-earned achievement. Add #ForeverBuffs to your celebration photos on social media so we can join in your celebration.

How to Utilize a Zoom Background

The virtual background feature in Zoom allows users to display an image as the background during Zoom meetings. We have created a special series of background images for you to download in celebration of winter graduation.

How to Download

Right click on the image of your choice
Click "Download Linked File As" and save it to your desired location (desktop, downloads, a folder, etc.)

How to Set Downloaded Image as Backdrop in Zoom

Once you've launched a Zoom meeting:

Click on ^ next to "Stop Video" on the bottom left of your Zoom window and select "Choose Virtual Background"
Click on the + on the right-hand side below the current image in your settings
Click "Add Image"
Find your saved image and select it

Share your photos, social media

We want to celebrate with you! Be sure to share your celebrations with us and use #ForeverBuffs wherever you post on social media. You can also check out the celebrations on the #ForeverBuffs social wall.

Celebrate your graduate

Congratulate your graduate on their achievement with a graduation gift, celebrate with festive CU party supplies, and order regalia. Please note the deadline for shipping orders was December 7, in-store pick-up available through December 14. Orders will be processed in the order received.

You are part of the Forever Buffs community

CU Boulder is more than a place: It is a worldwide community of Buffs. Stay connected! You are part of the Forever Buffs community that includes nearly 300,000 Buffs.

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ATLAS Outstanding Graduate Michelle Galetti

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