A group of people, some blurred in motion, inside of a conference room stand and sit around a table and prepare diplomas.

The entire campus is mobilized each year to welcome graduates and guests for commencement. Here's a glimpse of some of the activities undertaken ahead of #ND2022.

Last updated on May 13

Detail of a diploma lays on a desk.
Detail of a diploma lays on a desk.
A woman puts a diploma inside of a cover.
Registrar office staff participate in an “All Hands On Deck” style process to put diplomas in diploma folders. Notre Dame is one of only a few institutions to give students their actual diplomas at commencement, so the process is quick but also careful to be sure there are no mistakes.
A white board with a list of to-dos.
A group of people, some blurred in motion, inside of a conference room stand and sit around a table and prepare diplomas.
A woman, behind a cracked sliding door, sits at an office a desk and goes through paperwork.
A white, older woman wearing a black chefs hat and rubber gloves prepares tomato and mozzarella skewers in a catering kitchen. Large pans on the table are filled with ingredients.
Seasoned yellow and red tomato and mozzarella skewers piled together on a sheet pan.
Fruit tarts with blueberries, raspberries, and black raspberries organized neatly on a sheet pan.
Three white women wearing baseball hats work on preparing cakes. One woman cuts the cake in multiple pieces, another organizes plates while the other places a piece of cake on each plate.
A white woman wearing a Notre Dame monogram hat cats a cake using a large knife.
Blurred out flowers around the Notre Dame Avenue entrance to campus.
One orange tulip in focus and others in the blurred out in the background.
A construction worker wearing a bright green t-shirt sprays a fresh coat of paint on the faded traffic lines.
Mitchell Martensen from A-1 Striping Service Inc., sprays a fresh coat of paint on the faded pavement markings at the intersection of Saint Mary’s Road and Holy Cross Drive in front of the Grotto.
A woman steam presses a black graduation robe.
A woman presses a black graduation robe.
A man wearing a Notre Dame Football t-shirt walks two graduation robes covered in plastic to a closet with other robes.
A woman wearing a red dress, kneels down and presses blue and gold honorary hoods in her office.
Two men wearing Notre Dame hats, white chef coats, and black rubber gloves prepare sandwiches and wraps on a large steel table.
A man uses a tiller on soil in front of the Fr. Sorin Statue on the Main Quad. The Golden Dome is in the background surrounded by green trees.
Joe Rabbitt from Landscaping Services prepares the soil with a tiller and fertilizer before planting geraniums in front of the Fr. Sorin Statue on the Main Quad.
Two men wearing hats and safety earmuffs use leaf blowers to clear debris off of the sidewalk.
Three men stand near a wheel loader and another prepares to plant Japanese Horse Chestnut into a whole dug up in the foreground.
Two men stand to direct another in a wheel loader that's lowering a Japanese Horse Chestnut into a hole.
An older gentleman driving a yellow tractor, pokes his body out from the side door and signals someone with his hand.
A silhouette of an individual driving a golf cart towards The Word of Life Mural, also known as Touch Down Jesus.
A semi truck enters through the tunnel of the Notre Dame Stadium. Above the tunnel says
Six men assemble sections of stage made out of steel in the middle of a stadium. Five of the men hold up a section while another sits on top.
A black man bends over to tighten a bolt on a section of stage.
A white woman stands in the middle of the Notre Dame stadium, in front of a stage being put together and checks her phone.
A white woman works on her computer at a table near the Knute Rockne Gate in Notre Dame Stadium.
A man wearing a hat and gardening gloves holds flowering geraniums. Three pots of geraniums sit in the foreground and green trees in the background.
Bruce Critchlow from Landscaping Services plants geraniums in front of the Morris Inn.
Tulips lay in a wheel loader.
Two men plant flowers in a flower bed in front of the Morris Inn building.
Four people stand on pavement in front of The Word of Life Mural, also known as Touch Down Jesus. To the back left is a firetruck.
A man fills a large 300 gallon ballast with water using a firehose. In the background is The Word of Life Mural, also known as Touch Down Jesus.
A photo of an individual from behind wearing a CREW shirt. In the background is a stage set up with a large University of Notre Dame banner on front.
Detail of colorful wiring.
A man uses a floor cleaning machine in a stadium concourse.
A silhouette of a man places rows of chairs.

Photography by Barbara Johnston and Matt Cashore