LIVINGSTON, Ala.—The University of West Alabama will honor more than 450 graduates during fall commencement exercises Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006. The ceremony takes place at 10:30 a.m. in Pruitt Gymnasium on the UWA campus, with the Presidential Reception for graduates and their guests beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Bell Conference Center.  

In addition to the conferring of degrees in the Colleges of Business, Education, Liberal Arts, and Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the Division of Nursing and the School of Graduate Studies, the University will bestow an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts to visual artist Ronald McDowell of Auburn and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters to preservationist Gwyndolyn C. Turner of Demopolis.

Guests must have tickets, which are available from graduates, to attend the commencement ceremony in Pruitt Gym. Overflow seating to watch the commencement exercises will be available in Bibb Graves Auditorium and the Bell Conference Center. For more information, please contact Dr. Tina Jones at 205-652-3752.