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Spring 2025 Graduation Reception and Stoles

Spring 2025 Student Achievement Graduation Reception

Thursday, May 1, 2025
6:30 p.m. Student Union Ballroom 

The Student Achievement Graduation Reception is the hallmark event for the academic semester. Collaborating with the International Involvement Center, the Center for Global Engagement will host families, friends, faculty, staff, and the community to celebrate graduating students from all multicultural and underrepresented backgrounds. This program will present cultural stoles, recognition of students’ involvement, and time to reflect on their experiences at Northwest.

Light hors d’oeuvres and desserts will be provided.

Note: The registration deadline is April 21, 2025. You do not have to attend the reception for your cultural stole.

Reserve your cultural stole and your space at the reception  

Each semester, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion offers cultural graduate stoles for those who wishes to wear them for graduation or preserve them as keepsakes to commemorate the occasion. Cultural stoles commemorate and highlight those experiences and accomplishments within students’ familial and cultural environment.  Please read below the descriptions of each cultural stole.

  • Multicultural Stole: Multicultural Stole-represents ALL students Black, Hispanic/Latinx, Asian, Asian-Pacific Islander, American Indian, Multiracial identities, etc.
  • Black/African American Stole: Kente Stole- African, African American, Black identities.
  • Hispanic/Latin(x) Stole: Serape Stole (Hispanic/Latin(x) identities)
  • Native Stole: Indigenous/Native tribes and heritage.
  • Lavender Stole: LGBTQ+ identities