commencement
Hooding Ceremony
| Translated Hooding Instructions (PDF - Coming Soon!) |
Certain faculty members will be located on the east (left) side of the stage to line up the family hooders alphabetically. Each of the family hooders will be directed onto the stage just prior to the calling of their graduate's name. Officials will stand at the hooding table and hand a hood to a family hooder, who will then place it on the graduate's shoulders. An official will hood the graduate should a family member not be present. The graduate (and the family hooder) will then return to their respective seats in the audience.
Family Hooders:
The following is a brief summary of your activities. Please review the video in Room 201-202 at the Convention Center prior to Commencement. You will have a chance to practice hooding. (Convention Center is located right next to the Civic Auditorium)
- Your graduate will receive two Family Hooder Passes that you will need to show to the commencement assistants as you enter the auditorium and again to the hooding assistants to be admitted to the Loge Family Hooder Seating area. The Family Hooder Pass states your graduate's name and your loge seating section.
- It is important that you are seated in the correct section as you will be directed to go downstairs at the appropriate time and check in with the hooding assistants in the lobby of the auditorium. This is important so that we will know that there is a family hooder for every graduate. The hooding assistants will alphabetize you and escort you through the auditorium to the stage.
- Just prior to your graduate’s name being called, you will be prompted to approach the hooding table. You should be in position when your graduate arrives at the table. One hooder will place the hood on and the other will “flare the colors” (as explained in the video in Room 201-202). Immediately leave the stage with your graduate. (You may give them a hug, etc., after leaving the stage)
- Return to your seat.
The graduates should be seated after returning to their seats. The usher will prompt subsequent rows of graduates to approach the stage when three or four are left to be called to the stage.
Please take a moment to view a short Hooding video that may help you understand the hooding process and what is expected of the family hooders.