Graduating Student Ceremony Instructions
Before you come to campus
- Give your guests their tickets
- Make sure you have your cap, gown, tassel and completed photographer card
- Undergraduates: stole (white sash)
- Masters: hood
- Doctoral: your hood will be provided at the ceremony
- Leave all personal belongings with family/friends.
Arrive on campus
- Arrive at the Events Center no later than 11 a.m. on Sunday, December 11, 2011
- Enter through the “Graduating Student & Faculty” entrance, not through the main entrance
- Follow the signs to the NW corner stairwell; report to the student check-in area behind the stage on the event floor
Student Check-In
- Check-in with staff and receive your name card
- The name card will be given to the name reader as you enter the stage
- Turn in your completed photographer card
- You must remain in the check-in area after you have signed in until it is time to line up for the processional
Processional (entering ceremony)
- At approximately 11:30 a.m. you will begin to line up by school in two columns
- Look for your School Marshal and Student Marshal for assistance who will lead you through the processional
- If there is a friend you wish to sit with, make sure he/she is directly behind you in line
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The marshals will turn to face you as you are seated by the ushers
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Move to your seat, but do not sit until directed to do so by the administrator on stage
Ceremony
- Students will be called up on stage by school in the following order
- Doctoral candidates
- Masters candidates
- Undergraduates (CCPA, SOM, Watson, Harpur)
- All students walk across the stage, shake hands with the President and receive a certificate
- Return to your seat, but remain standing until your school is instructed to be seated by your dean
Recessional (leaving ceremony)
- When it is time to leave the Events Center, everyone on stage will leave first
- Students exit behind their Student and School Marshals in the following order
- Doctoral candidates
- Masters candidates
- Undergraduates (Harpur, Watson, SOM, CCPA)
- You will be led out the same way you entered, through the tunnels at the rear of the Events Center
- Plan to meet your guests after the completion of the recessional; do not break the line and head into the audience
Last Updated: 8/1/11