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Lindsey Wilson University to hold record winter commencement

A total of 974 degrees will be conferred at Lindsey Wilson's first commencement ceremony as a university.

By Duane Bonifer

Lindsey Wilson University will hold its 122nd commencement ceremony on Saturday, December 13, 2025, in Biggers Sports Center, 360 Spickard Drive, Columbia, KY.

It will be Lindsey Wilson's first commencement ceremony since the school became Lindsey Wilson University on July 1, 2025, and it will also be the largest graduating class in the school's 122-year history.

A total of 974 degrees will be conferred on December 13, including 121 undergraduate degrees, 851 graduate degrees and two doctorates.

To accommodate the large crowd, the university will hold two ceremonies.


The first ceremony will be held at 10amCT December 13 in Biggers Sports Center. It will feature graduates who attended the A.P. White Campus in Columbia, LWC Online or one of the extended campuses.

The commencement address will be given by Adia Guidry, who will earn a master of counseling in education. A California native, Guidry is currently stationed in Germany. She holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and has worked with children through teaching and creative arts.

Guidry has illustrated three children's books, which she said deepened her belief in the power of storytelling. As a military spouse with three children, Guidry said her passion for counseling grew through witnessing what she said are "the unspoken burdens families often carry."

The second ceremony will be held at 2pmCT December 13 in Biggers Sports Center. That ceremony will celebrate students who attended the graduate hybrid program.

The commencement address will be delivered by Siddhart Maduri, who will earn a master's degree in technology management. Maduri, who holds a bachelor's degree in computer science, comes from a family of educators -- his mother is a professor and his father is a professor-turned-businessman. Maduri said he plans to use his master's degree to start a business and become a pioneer in his field.

Both winter commencement ceremonies will be shown on closed-circuit television in the Norma & Glen Hodge Center for Discipleship, 402 Helen Flatt Drive, Columbia, KY. The ceremony will also be available via livestream on the Lindsey Wilson YouTube channel.

For more information about Lindsey Wilson's 2025 winter commencement ceremony, contact the Registrar's Office at registrar@lindsey.edu or 270-384-8025.


This story was posted on 2025-12-08 11:59:39
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Looking toward Winter Commencement at LWU



2025-12-08 - Columbia, KY - Photo courtesy Lindsey Wilson University.
Lindsey Wilson University student Lilly Campbell '26 of Davenport, Iowa, takes graduation pictures of brothers Kaden Tibbitts, left, and Keegan, both of Simpsonville, Kentucky, on the afternoon of December 3, 2025, in front of the L.R. McDonald Administration Building.

Lindsey Wilson will award a record 974 undergraduate and graduate degrees at its 2025 winter commencement, to be held at 10amCT and at 2pmCT on Saturday, December 13, 2025.

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