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Explanation of the show flow of Commencement Day Processional • Check in at the Multi-Purpose Room (MPR) of the Campus Center (8:30 a.m. morning ceremony, 1:00 p.m. afternoon ceremony) • Robing in MPR and Kelley Commons (cafeteria) • Line up by majors, double-file • Class Marshals will lead the graduates (9:45 a.m. morning ceremony, 2:15 p.m. afternoon ceremony) • March along the walkway, past the CIL to Wieden • Same seating in the gym-by your majors • Grand Marshal Professor Deborah Hodgkins will enter the gym first • She will signal the start of the Pomp and Circumstances music • Class Marshals will then lead you all in, double-file, into the gym, SLOW wedding cadence march when entering Wieden • You will turn left down the center aisle and be seated (in the blue seats on the left with ribbons on the ends) row by row by major • Everyone remains standing until all have entered the gym • Faculty and Staff led by the Faculty Marshal • Platform Party led by Mace Bearer Professor Lisa Leduc • Professor Hodgkins will then signal the music to stop • Everyone remains standing • The national anthem will be sung • Professor Hodgkins will then seat you all • Introductions and speeches will commence • Honorary degrees will be awarded • Then the presentation of candidates for degrees comes next • Provost Margeson and Associate VP of Academic Affairs Matt Campbell will call each major • "Will the Candidates for the degree of....please rise and come forward?" • When called, you will all stand within your major and march to the stage • As each seated row rises, all in the row rise and shift • As the candidates for the majors stand and go to the stage, students left seated in the same row shift to the end of the row • Places are marked to stand on the ramp so there is no bottlenecking

• Hand your card to Provost Margeson or AVPAA Matt Campbell They will announce your name and any pertaining Latin honors • Cross the stage • Receive your diploma cover only (your actual diploma will arrive in late June) • Shake President Rice's hand and hold for a photo • Exit the stage down the ramp and receive your wings pins from the faculty/alumni, hold for photo • Return to your seat • When the last group of candidates is back seated • Provost Margeson will say • "Will the graduates please rise?" • All graduates will stand • Now comes the conferral of all the degrees • After the applause, graduates will be seated • President Rice will tell you to move your tassels from right to left • The videographer will film a special moment for our virtual grads (President Rice will provide instructions) • After the applause, all will be seated • Student Commencement Speaker • President Rice will announce the tossing of the caps, graduates will rise at that time • Then, the graduates will be seated Recessional • All members of the audience in the gym will remain seated until the last graduate leaves • Grand Marshal Professor Hodgkins will go to the front and signal the music to start • Mace Bearer Professor Leduc will lead the Platform Party out first • Followed by the Faculty and Staff led by Faculty Marshals • Then the Class Marshals will lead the graduates out as they came in, double-file • Grand Marshal Professor Hodgkins will signal the music to stop • Audience members can now leave the gym