Commencement

Dear NHTI Senior:

You have either recently graduated or submitted a petition to graduate for the Spring 26 semester or you are a Summer 26 graduate with fewer than two courses left to complete. Graduation is a culmination of your hard work, sacrifice and dedication, and you should be commended.

We are inviting you to attend NHTI’s commencement ceremony taking place this May. This is a big day and a cause for celebration! This letter is meant to provide you with preliminary information about the commencement ceremony scheduled for Friday, May 15, 2026, at 10 a.m. The ceremony will be held in the “C” Parking Lot, right outside the Wellness Center.

• Each graduate may bring guests to the ceremony. There is no limit to the number of guests you can bring. All are welcome. Seating will be first come, first serve. You and your guests are welcome to bring folding chairs if you wish.
• Parking will be in the large “A” and “B” lots across from the soccer fields.
• Individual graduation portraits are available to you from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. on the second-floor balcony of the Student Center. Photographs of the graduates will also occur during the ceremony.
• Please stop by the Bursars Office in Sweeney Hall to verify your account balance. Diplomas will be withheld until your account balance is paid in full.
• Diplomas/Certificates will be mailed directly to graduates from our vendor in early summer (late June/early July).
• Caps and gowns can be picked up during normal business hours at the bookstore beginning in late April. More information will be on the graduation website soon. If you believe you will require an extra small or extra-large graduation gown size, please contact the bookstore for information about special orders. If you are eligible for an Honor cord and/or a Veteran’s cord, they will also be available from the bookstore.
• If you or a family member needs to request accessibility accommodations, including accommodations for the hearing impaired, please contact Accessibility Services at NHTIAccessibilityServices@ccsnh.edu or at (603) 271-6484 ext. 4291. Space is set aside for those requiring special accommodation. One individual may accompany each person requiring special accommodation.
• On Commencement Day, all graduates will meet by academic programs in their assigned rooms in Sweeney Hall/Student Center by 8:30 a.m. Staff will be on hand that day to guide you and assist you in finding your room.
• Commencement begins promptly at 10 a.m. Out of respect for your fellow graduates, families, and friends, it is expected that all graduates will remain throughout the entire ceremony.

If you have any questions about the ceremony, please return to this webpage (it will be updated in mid to late March as more details become available) or email NHTIGraduation@ccsnh.edu.

Congratulations on your accomplishment!

Trish Godino Loring & Chad Johnson
Co-Chairs, NHTI Commencement Committee

Dear Class of 2026,

Congratulations on achieving a most amazing milestone in your life!

Many of you did this while working days, nights, and weekends. Many of you have been rearing a family while raising yourself. And all of you struggled along the way, whether with finances or final exams, hunger or health, partying or punctuality, faith in yourself or faith in something greater than yourself, and yet here you are—you are beautiful to behold.

Your success is your success. No one can take it away from you, and no one can take credit for it, but your faculty, advisors, librarians, maintenance crew, and myself—all of us—we thank you for letting us be part of your quest.

Now, you continue your story in other places—a career, another college, at home, and among neighbors. Remember, you are the hero of your story, and you are well prepared to inscribe yourself into the glories of the world.

In writing that story, take kind care of the characters you find along the roadside, follow the plot line through the rising action of humble fortitude to a climax of cool excellence, and resolve to pay it forward to the next generation in our great, good country.

We will miss you because we love you very much.

Do good and be well.

Patrick Tompkins, Ph.D.
President, NHTI – Concord’s Community College