An estimated 4,800 students will graduate from UC Santa Barbara in eight official ceremonies on June 8, 13, 14, and 15. They are expected to draw thousands of family and friends to the campus over Commencement Week.

The Public Events Office is recruiting people to help with everything from student and faculty preparation to book sales and information tents. Call Julie Miller (x7382) or go to <www.ia.ucsb.edu/commencement/2008/staff.shtml> for details, especially about arranging for compensated overtime.

Chancellor Henry T. Yang plans to shake the hand of each student graduating from the College of Creative Studies (CCS), the College of Engineering, the College of Letters and Science, the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, and the Graduate Division.

The CCS will launch Commencement Week on June 8, with an 11 a.m. ceremony in Campbell Hall. Alumnus Kit Boise-Cossard, ’72, currently a contractor of green buildings, will speak.

The Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management’s official graduation ceremony is on June 13 at 10 a.m. at Bren Hall. Speaker Lee Stein, a former real estate developer and Internet entrepreneur, describes himself as a “business-minded

environmentalist” who works with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

On June 14 and 15 the Faculty Club Green will provide the setting for three ceremonies each day. At 9 a.m. on Saturday the scheduled speaker is Daniel P. Burnham, retired CEO of Raytheon; at 1 p.m. the speaker is Wes Bush, CEO of Northrop Grumman; SAGE Publications founding publisher Sara Miller McCune will speak at 4 p.m.

On Sunday, Emmett D. Carson, president of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation will address social sciences graduates at 9 a.m.; National Public Radio journalist Renée Montagne, co-host of “Morning Edition,” speaks at 1 p.m.; and at 4 p.m. astronaut and UCSB alumnus Leroy Chiao will speak to Graduate Division members.

The Web site <www.ia.ucsb.edu/commencement/2008/index.shtml> has details about each of the speakers.

Commencement visitors and participants will have free parking and shuttle service the weekend of June 14 and 15 when ceremonies will be held by the lagoon.

For those family and friends who cannot be present for commencement, the UCSB Bookstore will have a Web cam operation to transmit the CCS and main division ceremonies. Go to the bookstore’s commencement page <www.bookstore.ucsb.edu/graduation/grad_home.html> to click on the appropriate Web cam.