Faculty (on stage & hooding) Ceremony Instructions

One week prior to ceremony

• Rented regalia should be picked up from the University Bookstore
• Remove personal regalia from storage and steam if necessary

Day of Commencement

• Date: Sunday, December 11, 2011
• Location: Events Center
• Arrival time: 11 a.m.; Ceremony start: 12 p.m.

Arrive on campus

• Park in Lots H, M or C
• Enter the Events Center through the “Graduating Student & Faculty” entrance
  • This entrance will be labeled to the left of the main entrance
• Take either the stairs or elevator down to the ground level (EL – Event Level)

Faculty Check-In

• Report to the faculty check-in area behind the stage
  • School Marshals should robe and then move to the student check-in area
  • Faculty walking with doctoral students should report to the graduate student check in
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Processional

• At approximately 11:30 a.m., you will be instructed to line up into two columns behind the faculty marshals (two faculty members wearing grey marshal robes)
• You will join the processional behind the bagpipers and ahead of the Platform Party
• The bagpipers will stop and face the audience; do not stop, keep approaching the stage
• The two columns will split at the end of the center aisle and enter the stage on opposite sides
• Seats in the faculty section should be filled from front to back, leave a seat on each end of the front row for the marshals

Ceremony

• You will be provided with a ceremony program and a bottle of water on stage
• Remember, the ceremony is being recorded; you will be on camera the majority of the ceremony

Recessional

• The faculty marshals will lead faculty off opposite sides of the stage
• The two marshals will meet in the center aisle and lead the two columns of faculty out
• Faculty will follow the Platform Party through the tunnel on the right
  • To return to the robing area, make a right once you exit the tunnel

Post Ceremony

• Be sure to return any rented regalia to the University Bookstore staff in the faculty check in before you leave the building