For more details about the 2008 Commencement Ceremony: www.tntech.edu/commencement.html

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Ceremonies begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 3, in the Hooper Eblen Center, with overflow seating in the campus Fitness Center and shuttle service to and from distant parking areas.

This is the largest graduating class in Tech history. It is strongly recommended that all guests arrive early in order to find parking and to get seated.

Following tomorrow's spring commencement, TTU will have granted more than 62,000 degrees, nearly 35,000 of them since 1986.

Students graduating this spring hail from 41 states including Tennessee, 76 Tennessee counties and 65 foreign countries. They represent 41 undergraduate fields of study and 19 graduate fields.

Sen. Lamar Alexander will give this spring's commencement address to nearly 1,200 graduates and their friends and family.