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.
Linda Greenhouse, a Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law and Knight Distinguished Journalist-in-Resident at Yale Law School, will address graduates at Indiana University Bloomington's winter commencement