Choosing a speaker
A joint student-faculty committee reviews nominations submitted by anyone on campus each fall, weighing relevance to that year's graduates over name recognition; UW–Porter Falls does not pay large speaker fees.
The student speaker slot
Every commencement includes a graduating senior speaker chosen through a short application and a vote among that term's degree candidates, giving one seat at the podium to a peer rather than only outside voices.
In and around Porter Falls
The Porter Student Help Desk in Founders Union 118 is the single place to start when it is not obvious which office owns a question.
The practical details
Selection: A student-and-faculty committee reviews nominations each fall. Honorary degrees: Awarded rarely, for exceptional contribution to the field or region. Student speaker: One graduating senior selected by application and vote. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Porter Student Help Desk (Founders Union, Room 118). Call (715) 555–0120 or email help@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.