College Master's Hooding Ceremony Participant Instructions

ARRIVAL/CHECK-IN

  • Arrive at the Lied Center promptly at 9:50 a.m. There is another ceremony preceding ours, so people will be exiting the building. Enter through the pavilion entrance (when facing the main entrance, the pavilion entrance is located down the hill to the right).
  • Check in at the registration table to pick up your name card. Hold on to your name card. You will need to hand it to the announcer as you walk across the stage.
  • After checking in, locate your faculty hooder as quickly as possible.
  • If your faculty hooder is hooding more than one student, you will need to wait until all of the hooder’s students have arrived before taking your place in one of the procession lines. All students with the same faculty hooder need to line up together.
  • If your faculty hooder is unable to attend or has not arrived by 10:10 a.m., please notify a staff member at the registration table. There will be a designated faculty hooder available to hood you, and you will be directed to a separate line.
  • By 10:15 a.m. all graduates and hooders must be in one of the two procession lines.
     

ENTERING THE CEREMONY

  • Wear your cap with the tassel on the left side. Carry your hood folded over your right arm with the top toward your body and the white velvet strip toward your hand.
  • The Marshal will lead the procession into the auditorium and will seat you. Please stay in the same row as your faculty hooder. Remain standing until all students and faculty have entered.
  • The first speaker will notify you when it is appropriate to sit. Remove your cap as soon as you are seated.
  • Undergraduate Distinction/Highest Distinction students will be corded first.
  • When the hooding of the master’s degree candidates begins, the Marshal will send you row by row up to the stage. Please leave your cap in your seat.
     

GETTING HOODED

  • Your hood should be draped over your right arm as you follow your hooder to the stage.
  • Give your name card to the person at the lectern at the top of the stairs.
  • Hand your hood to your hooder with the hood colors facing away from you. Your faculty hooder will be standing behind you. Step in front of your faculty hooder, standing on the floor close to the front of the riser, facing the audience. The hood will be placed over your head as your name is read. Taller students may need to bend at the knee slightly to allow the hooder to reach without straining. *Please watch the hooding demonstration video below.
  • Shake your hooder’s hand after they hood you, then proceed across the stage. You will be led immediately to a green screen to have your photo taken.
  • Head back to your original seat and be seated.
     

LEAVING THE CEREMONY

  • After the closing remarks, the University Marshals will lead you out of the venue. There is another ceremony immediately following ours, so please assist the Lied Center staff by promptly exiting the building.

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