Employees of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Office of the Registrar gather at the Carlson Center before the commencement ceremony May 4, 2019.

Graduating members of the Alaska Nanooks men's ice hockey team visit the locker room at the Carlson Center in their academic regalia before the University of Alaska Fairbanks commencement ceremony, which is held at the center, on May 4, 2019.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks Inu-Yupiaq Student Dance Group leads the processional at the beginning of UAF's commencement ceremony Saturday, May 4, 2019, at the Carlson Center.

A. David McGuire, professor emeritus of ecology, carries the University of Alaska mace as grand marshal of the UA Fairbanks commencement ceremony Saturday, May 4, 2019, at the Carlson Center. Behind him, from left, are UA President Jim Johnsen, UA regents Karen Perdue and John Davies, and UAF Chancellor Daniel M. White.