2011 Graduation Schedule

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1 2011 Graduation Schedule Welcome to YOUR graduation celebration! We are very excited about your big day and want to make sure you are well prepared and as stress-free as possible. Attached you will find the schedule for the pre-graduation events on campus and for the ceremony. Your graduation hoods are compliments of the Alumni Affairs Office. You will receive your hood during the graduation ceremony when you walk across the stage. Your graduation ceremony will be held at the Mesa Arts Center in downtown Mesa. See the attached schedule for locations, maps, times, etc. Make sure you have completed the Petition to Graduate on the graduation web site. This MUST be completed by May 6 th or we will not be able to print your name in the program. Make sure you order your regalia (aka: cap/gown). The link to the vendor will be on the graduation web site as well. The university does not have regalia for sale at the campus. All guests will need a ticket for the ceremony. Graduates will be allotted a maximum of 15 tickets each. Tickets may be picked up in the Office of Student Affairs beginning May 30 th. Please read over the attached schedules and information carefully. We look forward to seeing all of you for this exciting celebration! Office of Student & Alumni Affairs

2 Graduation Schedule of Events School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona Class of 2011 Thursday, June 2, 2011 ATSU Campus, 5850 E. Still Circle, Mesa, AZ Cougar Classroom Attendance Required Bring your Cap & Gown 8:30 a.m. 9:25 a.m.... Dean s Farewell Breakfast (Mandatory) 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.... Financial Aid Exit Program (Cougar) *required for any graduate with financial aid; mandatory paperwork to be signed 11:00 a.m. 11:15 a.m.... Graduation Rehearsal 11:15 a.m. 11:30 a.m.... Congratulations from Alumni Affairs and Development 11:30 a.m. 11:45 a.m.... Change into your cap and gown Noon 12:20 p.m.... Class photo, in regalia (South Patio; amphitheatre) 12:20 p.m. 2:00 p.m.... Complementary individual photos* * As the inaugural class of SOMA, the Dean s office would like to have an individual photo of each graduate for display on campus. A free digital copy of the photo will be available to each graduate complements of Alumni Affairs. Innovator s Gala - In Celebration of the Class of 2011 Thursday June 2, pm Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel Valley of the Sun Ballroom Reception, Dinner, Awards Presentation, and Dancing This event is open to the SOMA 2011 Graduates plus one guest 340 North Third Street, Phoenix, AZ (602) More information will be sent out about the Innovators' Gala from the SOMA Dean's Office. Information will be sent out from the SOMA Dean s Office.

3 GRADUATION DAY Friday, June 3, 2010 Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ 1 East Main Street Main & Center 2:30 p.m. Line Up / 3:00 p.m. Ceremony IMPORTANT! Petition to Graduate: Did you complete the online Petition to Graduate? Every graduate MUST submit the petition to be eligible to graduate. To ensure that your name appears in the graduation program, you must submit the petition by May 6, ( Mesa Arts Center Ikeda Theatre: The Mesa Arts Center is located in downtown Mesa on Main and Center. Please give yourself enough time to travel to downtown, park, and enter the Center. See attached map. Parking at the Venue: Parking for the Mesa Arts Center is located on 1st Ave. between Center Street and Sirrine St. The cost is $5/car (parking is controlled by the Mesa Downtown Business Association). Additional, free parking, is available in the parking garage on the S-W corner of Centennial Way and 1st Street. Regalia: Did you order your regalia? Student Services does not have any extra gowns so please make sure you order yours in time. Please order your regalia as soon as possible AND check your regalia when it arrives to ensure that you received the correct gown and that the tassel is gold. Hoods: Each graduate will receive their hood on-stage as part of the graduation ceremony. The Alumni Association funds each graduate s hood as a gift to welcome them into the ATSU alumni family. Tickets: Each graduate will be allotted 15 tickets for their guests. Seating is general admission. Tickets may be picked up in the Office of Student Affairs beginning May 30 th. A will call table will be set up in the lobby of the Mesa Arts Center. Graduates MUST complete Will Call envelopes and turn them in to Student Affairs no later then 5pm on Thursday, June 2 nd. The envelopes will be available with the tickets from Student Affairs. Wheelchair Assistance: Wheelchair seating will be available for guests. Seating: The graduates will be seated in front of the stage; occupying the front rows. Guests are welcome to sit in any seat/row not reserved for the graduates or guest hooders.

4 Guest Hooders: Requests for Guest Hooders must be submitted to the Office of Student Affairs no later then 30 days before the date of the ceremony. The request form and criteria can be found online at the graduation web site: ONLY approved guest hooders will be allowed to hood his/her graduate. The graduate will be notified via if the request has been approved or not. Seating: Guest hooders will be required to sit in the reserved Guest Hooder seating located behind the graduates. Each guest hooder will be assigned a seat. Other friends or family members will need to sit in the regular seating areas. Guest hooders do not participate in the processional or recessional with the graduates. Instructions: Guest hooders are instructed to be ready to go on stage at least three graduates before his/her graduate takes the stage. Guest hooders will be directed by a staff member who will let them know when to go on stage. The faculty hooder will help the guest hooder on to the hooding platform and hand him/her the hood. Refer to the Conferring of Degrees section of these instructions on how to hood the graduate. The guest hooder will exit the stage with the graduate and return to their seat. Reader Card: Graduates must write on their reader card: being guest hooded by [hooder s name]. Photography/Videography: Except for the official University photographers and news media, no one will be allowed access to the stage or graduate seating area to take pictures during the ceremony. The University contracts with a photographer to take a photo of each graduate as he/she walks across the stage. Information on how to order photos from graduation will be posted on the graduation web site. Schedule for Graduation Time Graduates 2:30 p.m. Room opens to guests only; no graduates 2:30 p.m. Graduates Line up outside the theatre (2 nd floor of the Ikeda theatre lobby) 3:00 p.m. Processional into the Room/Ceremony Begins 4:45 p.m. Conclusion of the Ceremony Congratulations! Please remember to bring: 1. Your cap and gown. Everything showing below the hem of your regalia gown should be dark (i.e. pants, long skirt/dress line, and shoes). Nothing can be worn on the outside of the regalia (i.e. flowers, honors cords, etc.) Please ask family and friends to hand you flowers or other gifts AFTER the ceremony. 2. Your reader card (see below for description). 3. Give yourself and guests enough time to travel to the Center and park.

5 Reader Cards: Every graduate will be given a reader card. Each graduate will hand this card to the reader on stage who reads the graduate s name as it is written on the card. The reader card contains the following information: 1. Graduate s name along with a space for the graduate to write in any phonetic spellings 2. A number and color which indicates how the graduate lines up for the processional and what seat/row to sit in 3. The address where you want your diploma mailed to (on the back of the card) Jane Anne Doe (space for graduate to write in any phonetic spelling) Red Column - #25 Row 1, Seat 25 Order of Ceremony: 1. Processional a. The stage party marches in first b. Each CHC campus will march in individually the graduates from each CHC will be lead in by their CHC director 2. Welcome and Introductions 3. Graduation Speaker 4. Conferring of Degrees (graduates will go up on stage by their CHC campus group) 5. Alumni Induction 6. Closing Comments 7. Recessional of Stage party and Graduates (meet your family/friends in the foyer) 8. Congratulations!

6 Conferring of Degrees: 1. A staff member will guide you up on stage by program. 2. When instructed, the staff member will cue you to walk to the Reader s podium. 3. Hand the reader your Reader Card and wait for him/her to say your name 4. As he/she reads your name, walk toward the Dean 5. Shake hands with the Dean and continue across the stage to the Hooding Platform 6. At the Hooding Platform, turn and face the audience (see picture below) 7. Bend your knees slightly to help the Hooder get the hood over your head 8. After you have been hooded, turn around and shake the hooder s hand 9. Proceed to the end of the stage where a staff member will direct you back to your seat

7 Directions to the Mesa Arts Center 1 East Main Street (Main & Center)