Faculty Information for Commencement

Arrival Time: One hour before the ceremony. (Lead Faculty Marshals)
                     Forty-five minute before the ceremony. (Faculty Marshals)
Marshal Parking: Faculty Court South
Robing Area: Mitchell Center, Room 1102
Line-up Area: Mitchell Center, Room 1101

Instructions

Faculty process down the Arena center aisle, split left and right, proceed to the stairwells behind the stage, ascend the stairs and enter into appropriate Concourse-level Portals for seating.

An instructional sheet will be e-mailed to you prior to the commencement ceremony. Please read carefully and contact the Registrar’s Office, (251) 460-6251, Option 4, if you have any questions.

At the end of the ceremony, return your stoles to one of the lead marshals.

NOTE: If you cannot attend the ceremony, notify the Registrar’s Office, (251) 460-6251, Option 4, no later than noon on Thursday, December 5.

There will be a voluntary Faculty Marshal meeting on Wednesday, December 11, at 3:00 p.m. in the Mitchell Center arena if you wish to practice.

Arrival Time: Thirty minutes before the ceremony
Marshal Parking: Faculty Court South
Robing Area: Mitchell Center, Room 1615
Line-up Area: Mitchell Center, Room 1613

Instructions

NOTE: Registrar staff will be in the arena from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. on  Wednesday, December 11, if you wish to practice.

 • Obtain mace thirty minutes before the ceremony from Mitchell Center, Room 1613.

• Meet students at northeast entrance of the Mitchell Center Arena ten minutes before the ceremony.

• Lead students into arena precisely at the start of the ceremony.

• Stand at bottom of Platform center steps (stage right) while the faculty split into separate rows and marches to the stairwells. Remain at the bottom of center steps until the platform party arrives.

• Follow platform party up center steps to stage. Go to Row 4 (at edge of stage) and place mace in stand, and be seated on Row 4.

• At the end of the ceremony, lead the platform party off the stage and down the center aisle exiting the arena out of the northwest portal.

• Return mace to Mitchell Center, Room 1613.

Arrival Time: One hour and fifteen minutes before the ceremony
Marshal Parking: Faculty Court South
Line-up Area: HKS Building, East Gym

Instructions

An instructional sheet will be e-mailed to you prior to the commencement ceremony. Please read carefully and contact the Registrar’s Office, (251) 460-6251, Option 4, if you have any questions.

NOTE: If you cannot attend the ceremony, notify the Registrar’s Office, (251) 460-6251, Option 4, no later than noon on Thursday, December 5.

There will be a voluntary Student Marshal meeting on Wednesday, December 11, at 3:30 p.m. in the Mitchell Center arena if you wish to practice.

Arrival Time: Thirty minutes before the ceremony
Parking: Faculty Court South
Line-up Area: Mitchell Center, Room 1106

Instructions

• Report to Mitchell Center, Room 1106 for distribution of gonfalons and line-up.

• Students will process to the Mitchell Center and arrive at approximately five minutes before the ceremony.

• As students process into the building, you merge into the lineup in front of your dean and the student carrying the sign for your college.

• NOTE: The order of entering the arena: Chief Marshal, the University Gonfalonier, College Gonfalonier, Dean, Students for their college..

• NOTE: Gonfaloniers will receive an instruction sheet the week before commencement detailing the order of the colleges on the arena floor.

• You will remain in place for the platform party processional, Presentation of Colors, the National Anthem, and Invocation.

• When Interim President Smith directs everyone to be seated, you will be seated behind the student section on the arena floor.

• In the recessional, you will follow the platform party out of the arena and exit, out of the same door you entered. Note, the platform party will be exiting to the left.

• You do not recess with the gonfalons.

NOTE: If you cannot attend the ceremony, notify the Registrar’s Office, (251) 460-6251, Option 4, no later than noon on Thursday, December 5.

There will be a voluntary Gonfalonier meeting on Wednesday, December 11, at 2:30 p.m. in the Mitchell Center arena if you wish to practice.

Arrival Time: Thirty minutes before the ceremony
Robing Area:  Mitchell Center, Rooms 1615 and 1616
Lineup Area:  John Counts hallway

Instructions Enter the arena at ten minutes prior to the ceremony through the faculty/platform entrance. At five minutes prior to the ceremony, as students process into the building, the gonfalonier will merge into the lineup in front of the first student for the college. When the gonfalonier for your college enters the arena, follow the gonfalonier and lead the students up the center aisle. You will go to the front of the arena and stand at your designated place facing the students. Please remain standing for the processional of the students, faculty and the platform party. As the last person in the platform party goes onto the stage, follow and go to the second row to be seated.

NOTE: Registrar staff will be in the arena at 2:00 p.m. on  Wednesday, December 11, if you wish to practice.

Arrival Time: One hour before the ceremony
Parking: Faculty Court South
Location: HKS Building, West Gym

Instructions

A memo with instructions will be e-mailed to you prior to the commencement ceremony. Please read carefully and contact the Registrar’s Office, (251) 460-6251, Option 4, if you have any questions.

NOTE: If you cannot attend the ceremony, notify the Registrar’s Office, (251) 460-6251, Option 4, no later than noon on Thursday, December 5.