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What is Keele's Homecoming?

 Homecoming 2014 will be on Saturday 31st May to coincide with Community Day on June 1st 2014

We will announce mroe details as they are available

The Homecoming tradition didn't really exist in the UK or at Keele - but it does now! We know that the campus and the Union are important places in people's memories and affection for Keele. So each year we invite you back to your old home from home. We extend an especially warm welcome to last year's leavers - our newest alumni - so you can share your "Life after Keele".

Homecoming is an annual tradition at American colleges and universities. People come together to welcome back alumni and friends to their university or college or school at the start of the new academic year. It always features traditions unique to the institution and is often built around a game of American football or other sports; there is often a parade by the marching band and a banquet and sometimes the coronation of a Homecoming King and Queen. Our Homecoming falls at the end of the academic year to welcome back our alumni, especially last year's leavers, and we also welcome current students on campus.

The Alumni Office and Students Union created the first Keele Homecoming in 2008 and the disco was attended by over 350 alumni. Numbers each year usually exceed 400 for the legendary Never Forget Disco in the Union.

Our dream is for Homecoming to become a regular sunny date in the diary around which you can build plans for a get-together with your own circle of friends.

Homecoming will never become "institutionalised" - it's a day for you and your friends - and we will  focus on offering a great time at Keele...!

We acknowledge the generous support of Keele University Students' Union for hosting and running Homecoming

What song means Keele to you?

 
Why not look at the Soundtrack of our (Keele) Lives... "the songs that mean Keele to you"

We aim to include as many of your suggestions as possible in the playlist for the forever: keele disco.    

The Keele Soundtrack is NOW available via Spotify. If you have any tracks that mean Keele to you, please email Emma Gregory and we will do our best to find them!