Commencement at Central Connecticut State University

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rdf:langString Central Connecticut State University's annual undergraduate commencement exercises are held each May at the XL Center in Hartford. At present, this is the only occasion upon which bachelor's degrees are conferred by the university. Since 1989, a separate graduation ceremony has been held for recipients of postgraduate degrees. Additional midyear undergraduate commencements were held at the end of the fall terms from 1988 to 1993, and at several other points in the university's history. From 1884 to 1994, Spring commencement was held on the CCSU campus in New Britain, but due to a lack of space and concerns about the weather, it was moved to the Hartford Civic Center, which was renamed the XL Center in 2007. In 2018, commencement exercises have been divided into morning and afternoon sessions to accommodate increasing numbers of graduates and audience members; the 2020 and 2021 exercises were anomalous due to the COVID-19 pandemic.