Traffic detours planned during commencement
Wake Forest University will be closed to through traffic during its commencement ceremony on May 17 from 7 a.m. until the ceremony ends around noon.
Parking passes and tickets are required to enter campus and attend commencement. Tickets are reserved for graduates and their guests.
For commencement traffic, both lanes at the campus¼ University Parkway entrance will be one-way for entering traffic before the ceremony and for exiting traffic afterward. The Reynolda Road and Polo Road entrances to campus will remain open for two-way commencement traffic during the event. Anyone attending commencement is encouraged to use the university¼s shuttle service, which will provide transportation from Groves Stadium, the First Assembly of God and the Reynolda Village parking lot near the Reynolda Road entrance to campus.
Shuttle rides between the off-campus parking areas and campus will be available continuously from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Anyone not attending commencement should plan routes around the campus.