The University will mark the beginning of the academic year with Opening Exercises at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11, in the University Chapel.
The annual interfaith service (.pdf of service program) will include an address by President Christopher L. Eisgruber and the recognition of academic achievements of undergraduate students.
First-year students will enter the chapel with classmates in their residential colleges. The chapel will be filled with members of the Class of 2020, as well as faculty and administrators who will process in academic regalia.
Members of the University community will be directed to a simulcast site in McCormick Hall, Room 101. The ceremony will be broadcast live on TigerNet Channel 7 on campus and streamed live on the University's Media Central website. The broadcast will be archived on Media Central for later viewing.
Following the ceremony, weather permitting, first-year students will participate in a "Pre-rade" walking from the chapel through FitzRandolph Gate on Nassau Street, officially entering the campus to start their undergraduate experience and to be greeted by fellow Princetonians.
The Pre-rade will be streamed live on the University's Facebook page beginning around 4 p.m. A recording will be available there for later viewing.
Classes for undergraduates begin Wednesday, Sept. 14.
