Academic Ceremonies
Freshman Assembly
Each fall the President and Dean of Yale College address freshmen and their parents and guests in Woolsey Hall at 10 am on the last Saturday in August (the Saturday before classes start).
M.A. Privatim
Faculty members who are promoted to full professor and who have earned their advanced degrees at an institution other than Yale are granted an honorary master´s degree, the M.A. Privatim. The President presides over an annual elegant, brief ceremony, usually in February or March, at which the degrees are conferred.
