Diplomas
At the 9:30 am graduate commencement ceremony, the Vice President for Academic Affairs will announce the names of the graduate degree recipients. Graduates will walk up onto the stage from the orchestra from the steps on the right side of the stage and exit by walking across the stage and down the steps on the left side of the stage after receiving a diploma folder and shaking hands with the President. Graduates should sit down immediately upon returning to their orchestra seats. When all graduates have received their diploma folders and are again seated, the Vice President for Academic Affairs will instruct graduates to turn their tassels from the right side to the left side of their caps which officially signifies that they are now graduates.
At
the 12:30 pm undergraduate commencement ceremony, the
dean of each school, or in the case of the Division of Extended
Learning, the Associate Vice President for Extended Learning,
will announce the names of the graduates. Graduates will walk
up onto the stage from the orchestra from the steps on the
right side of the stage and exit by walking down the steps
on the left side after receiving a diploma folder from and shaking hands
with the President. Graduates
should sit down immediately upon returning to their orchestra
seats. When
all graduates have received their diploma folders and are again
seated, the Vice President for Academic Affairs will instruct
them to turn their tassels from the right side to the left
side of their caps which signifies that they are officially
graduated.
Immediately after both the graduate and undergraduate ceremonies, graduates who are just completing their programs of study with the Spring Semester 2012 will be able to pick up their diplomas in the Perelman Theater of the Kimmel Center.
Signs will be posted
on tables on the stage of the Perelman Theater where advisors
and staff from the Academic Advising Center and the Office
of the Registrar will distribute diplomas to those graduates
who completed their formal degree requirements in Spring 2012.
The Perelman Theater is the same location where all degree
candidates line-up for the processional into Verizon Hall.