What to expect the day of the ceremony
Checking in and picking up name cards
- Upon arriving each student will be provided with a "name card," which contains your name and any information that will be read about you when you walk across the stage.
- Most students who registered ahead of time should have a pre-printed name card waiting for them.
- Students whose name cards are missing will be able to fill one out by hand at their check-in area, volunteers will be there to help.
- Keep your name card with you. You will need to hand it to someone as you walk across the stage.
- Please only pick up your own name card, as students picking up name cards for their friends can lead to confusion.
Student line up
- After picking up your reader cards, students will wait to process onto the floor of the Arena.
- Undergraduate students wait in the bleachers directly behind their check-in tables. The sections are labelled with the names of the various schools and colleges, and other than sitting with the rest of your school/college, undergraduates may sit in any order.
- Graduate students wait in the area near their check-in tables until called to line up by Marshals
- Students will process onto the event seating area together, as directed by the Marshals.
Degree recognition
- Once seated on the Arena floor, please wait until you are directed by the Marshals to stand up and process across the stage.
- Shortly before the stage professional photographers will take your portrait in front of a formal University banner.
- When you approach the stage a volunteer will take your name card, and this is how the readers on the stage will know which name to call.
- After walking across the stage, continue to follow the instructions of the Marshals, and sit back down until the end of the ceremony.
Ceremony end
- After you walk, please return to your seat and remain there until the end of the ceremony.
- The ceremony is expected to end by TBA but may run longer or shorter.
- Please remain through the full ceremony, even after you walk, out of respect for the remaining graduates.
- The Marshals will cue you when the ceremony ends and it is time to leave the arena floor.
Late arrival
- If, by some unforeseen circumstance you are late, please report to the area in which you were instructed to, and there will be a volunteer to lead you to a Marshal who will get you seated on the floor.
- Late seating is not guaranteed, depending on where we are in the ceremony.