Instructions for Graduates

Graduate Hooding and Commencement Ceremony
5 p.m. Stewart Field House

4:00 p.m. Pick up name cards and line up in Richardson Performing Arts Center.

• Caps and gowns are worn for this ceremony.
• Photographers will be available to take pictures prior to the procession to Stewart Field House.
• Line up order is by degree not major

Procession to the northwest entrance of Stewart Field House

• Listen carefully to instructions given and follow your junior marshals
• The stage party and the faculty precede you in line. When you proceed to the seating area, sit down to be sure every chair is filled.
• The junior marshals will cue you when it is time for your row to stand and proceed to the stage.
• You will be given two name cards—one card for the reader as you enter onto the stage; the second card should be given to the photographer’s assistant when your picture is taken with the flags after crossing the stage.
• Return to your seat for the remainder of the ceremony.

Diploma Pick-Up

• Graduates whose degrees have been conferred effective May 7 may pick up their diploma immediately after the graduate ceremony in Stewart Lobby (until 6:30 p.m.).
• Those graduates who walk but are May 30 or August 30 graduates will be contacted by the Registrar's Office about diploma delivery.

**Graduates with physical limitations should contact the registrar's office at 1-800-846-1543 ext. 6268***