GRADUATION

The graduation activities and ceremony are a celebration for you, your family, and the PNWU community of your achievement. The commencement webpage on PNWU.edu will give specifics on schedule of events, vendors for announcements, regalia, diploma frames, and photos along with required forms, surveys, accommodations, and frequently asked questions.

The graduating class president will be the class representative to the graduation committee. Questions may be directed to Enrollment Services.

Learn more on the Commencement webpages of PNWU.edu

Commencement Application

A commencement application must be completed to designate the student’s intention to graduate and collect information for use in graduation activity preparation. Students will be notified when the graduation application is available for completion.

Graduation Checklist

As graduation approaches (approximately March 1 of each year), items that need completion will be added to each student’s Self-Service Checklist. As students complete the requirements, Enrollment Services will be notified to mark the checklist items complete. Students will receive emails from PNWU Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Enrollment Services, and PNWU Financial Aid regarding final exit surveys, and financial aid exit counseling.

Final responsibility for meeting degree requirements resides with the student.

Academic Plan and Transcript Review

Students have access to their Academic Plan and Transcript in Self-Service. Both documents should be reviewed frequently during the final year of curriculum to ensure degree requirements are met, grades are complete, and that any clinical rotation schedule changes are reflected. Questions regarding the academic plan can be sent to registrar@pnwu.edu.

The graduation/degree date is reported to loan servicers and will start the repayment timeline.

Diploma

PNWU provides one free diploma per graduate. Once all degree and graduation requirements are completed, diplomas will be issued within one to two weeks. The student’s PNWU email address will be used for digital diplomas and printed diploma will be sent to the diploma address the student entered in Self-Service. Students who have not fulfilled their financial and other obligations shall not have diplomas made available until such obligations are met.

Diploma Request

Some organizations require students to upload an electronic copy of the diploma when applying for residency or licensing, if PNWU has to reproduce a diploma, additional fees will apply. An electronic, replacement, or duplicate diploma may be requested by paying the $25 fee on Self-Service and completing the Diploma Replacement Request form. A replacement or duplicate diploma will have replacement or duplicate printed in the lower right corner to designate that it is not the original diploma.

Requests for international shipment will incur an additional fee to cover postage.

Alumni

After graduation, PNWU is available to assist graduates with postgraduate services and support. Graduates are encouraged to reach out to the PNWU Alumni Coordinator at 509.249.7739. PNWU provides a support network for our future alumni, if graduates are interested in joining the Alumni Network to help current or future students succeed they may complete the Student-Alumni Network Registration Form.

As alumni, you will continue to have access to your pnwu.edu email indefinitely, however, we must change the licensing on Office 365 to reflect your alumni status and this will cause you to lose access to other services from your school account like SharePoint and OneDrive. You may have been synchronizing files from your laptop up to OneDrive or perhaps you saved files within OneNote up to your personal SharePoint site. Any files you wish to keep must be saved to another location before we make the licensing change or you will permanently lose access to them. In addition, this change may affect the copy of Microsoft Office you have installed on your laptop or mobile device if it was downloaded from Office 365 or if it is using your PNWU account for licensing.

You can access your current files by logging into Office 365 then select OneDrive. There are several options for free cloud storage where you can move your files, Microsoft’s OneDrive Personal which includes 5GB and Google Drive which includes 15GB.

The licensing change to your school account on Office 365 will occur in approximately one month after graduating. PNWU will send out reminders as the date gets closer but please act on this before it is too late to recover your files. Any questions can be directed to the Help Desk at help@pnwu.edu.

Alumni will not have access to PNWU network or other software systems (e.g. ExamSoft, ProgressIQ, and Library databases) approximately one month after graduating.

Page revision date: June 16, 2023