December Commencement exercises are open to candidates for graduate and undergraduate degrees. All IU Bloomington schools that have December graduates are eligible to participate. The ceremony typically runs 90 minutes and includes the procession of degree candidates, an address by a Commencement speaker, induction into the IU Alumni Association, the hooding of Ph.D. and doctoral candidates, and the conferral of degrees.
Dr. Jane Chu, the 11th chair of the National Endowment for the Arts and graduate from IU's Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis with a Doctorate in philanthropic studies will address graduates at Indiana University Bloomington's winter commencement.