Your picture will be taken as you walk. Candidates will be handed Commencement programs as they approach the curtain on the robing side of the stadium floor. Please carry this program with you to your seat. Candidates are to follow the marshals' instructions to keep the procession moving in an orderly fashion. Candidates and faculty will be seated from the front to the back of the sections on the stadium floor as well the permanent seats in the stands on the east end.
Participants are to sit in the next available chair immediately upon entering a row.
As the platform group reaches the stage, all candidates will rise and remain standing through the invocation and singing of The Star-Spangled Banner . Candidates for first degrees wear tassels on the right sides of their caps until degrees have been conferred by the University president. After the conferral, bachelor and associate degree candidates grasp the tassel with the left hand and transfer it to the left side of the cap. Candidates who already have a degree wear their tassels on the left side. Follow the directions of these faculty marshals.