Dec 12, 2025

KSU Fall Commencement schedule

Posted Dec 12, 2025 4:37 PM

Schedule and speakers for Friday, Dec. 12 ceremonies

  1. 1 p.m., Bramlage Coliseum: Graduate School. Regent John Dicus will represent the Kansas Board of Regents at the ceremony. J. Ernest Minton, professor of animal sciences and industry, will be the speaker.
  2. 7 p.m., Student Life Center, Salina: K-State Salina. Lt. Col. Matthew Shelly, U.S. Air Force, will be the speaker.

Schedule and speakers for Saturday, Dec. 13 ceremonies

  1. 8:30 a.m., Bramlage Coliseum: College of Architecture, Planning & Design; College of Arts and Sciences; and College of Education. The student speakers will be Tinashe Sekabanja, bachelor's candidate in statistics, Kampala, Uganda, and Jordan White, bachelor's candidate in secondary education and chemistry, Shawnee.
  2. 10 a.m., Forum Hall, K-State Student Union: Army ROTC Wildcat Battalion commissioning ceremony. The commissioning officer and guest speaker is U.S. Army Col. Dallas McMullen, Brigade Commander of the 69th Troop Command, Kansas Army National Guard.
  3. Noon, Bramlage Coliseum: College of Agriculture and College of Business Administration. Mike Leikam, '87, the president and chief executive officer of Centralized Supply Chain Services, LLC, will be the speaker. Weston Schrader, bachelor's candidate in animal sciences and industry, Minneapolis, Kansas, and Max Roberts, bachelor's candidate in finance, Olathe, will be the student speakers.
  4. 3:30 p.m., Bramlage Coliseum: Carl R. Ice College of Engineering and College of Health and Human Sciences. The student speakers are Robert Holt, bachelor's candidate in mechanical engineering, Overland Park, and Cara Johnson, bachelor's candidate in communication sciences and disorders, Lenexa.