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Diamond Weekend Passes

The store is now closed. If you would like to purchase tickets to Live at 75 or the Jimmy Fallon Comedy Show, please go to the Plaza Rooms in the Mack Student Center, North Campus, between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm.

Registration information for Alumni, Parents & Families

I will purchase the Diamond Pass, ($100 for alumni and family members, discounts available for GOLD and Half Century Club alumni and emeriti and retired faculty and staff). The Pass (valued at over $200 for the weekend) entitles me entry to most 75th anniversary receptions and events, as well as discounts to the entertainment events:

  • The Diamond Reception (Friday night) and William and Kate Hofstra Honor Roll
  • The Hofstra Museum exhibition openings
  • The Deans’ Receptions
  • Student affairs events on Friday afternoon
  • Hofstra’s Got Talent
  • Classes Without Quizzes/All model classes and lectures
  • Discussion groups
  • Friday breakfast and lunch
  • Saturday breakfast
  • All Thursday events, including Convocation and "Happy Birthday Hofstra" cake cutting (with Charm City Cakes from Food Network’s Ace of Cakes)
  • Discounts to two ticketed events, Live at 75 Music Fest and Jimmy Fallon at the Mack Center

Registration information for Students

Current Hofstra students admitted free to all Diamond Celebration events except Jimmy Fallon ($5 with current Hofstra ID/one ticket per student). Student tickets for the Fallon event will be on sale in the Student Center Atrium the week of September 20. Please contact the Office of Student Leadership and Activities at (516) 463-6914 should you need additional information.

Students may enter the Live at 75 Festival with their Hofstra ID card on the day of the event. Wristbands will be provided at the entrance.

Guests during Diamond Weekend are limited to members of the Hofstra community: parents and families, alumni and faculty and staff. No outside guests are permitted. Diamond Weekend festivities are not open to the public.


Registration information for Faculty and Staff

We invite our faculty, staff, administration and families to participate in all of the festivities. Some events do require tickets and these tickets are available to our community at discounted rates.

All events from Thursday through the Friday afternoon receptions are free to all Hofstra faculty, staff, administration and students.

Ticketing information for the Diamond Reception featuring the Kate and William Hofstra Honor Roll, the Live at 75 Festival, and the Jimmy Fallon “An Evening of Comedy” is on the Hofstra portal.

Proceeds from the weekend
benefit scholarships at Hofstra University.


Diamond Weekend festivities are limited to members of the Hofstra community: students, parents and families, alumni and faculty and staff. Diamond Weekend festivities are not open to the public. Thank you.