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Assembly

Plan to arrive 30 minutes before your ceremony dressed in your academic apparel, which includes a gown, hood, and mortarboard. Please see the images below for a representation of the appropriate way to wear your apparel.

The graduate above is wearing convocation apparel, including the mortarboard (which is the graduation cap), the hood (which loops over the shoulders with a colourful silk sash), and the gown (which is the full black garment worn over clothes).

The auditorium doors will open approximately 30 minutes before the ceremony.

Please bring your name card with you. It has your seat number and name on it and will be your ticket for the ceremony. Ushers will be present to assist you in finding your seat.

Leave all personal belongings with a guest or at the coat check. It’s possible you may not end up back at your original seat once you have crossed the stage.

You must be seated before the academic procession enters the auditorium. Once they begin to enter, you will not be seated until the procession is on stage.

National Anthem / Welcome

The ceremony will begin with the singing of the national anthem. You are encouraged to rise and join in the singing.

After the welcoming remarks and the conferring of an honorary degree, it will soon be your turn to walk the stage.

Conferring of Degrees

Stand and follow along in the program as you are presented to the Chancellor and President.

The President will administer “The Pledge” to all graduates. At the end of the pledge, reply in unison: “These things I pledge myself to do.”

The Chancellor will then admit you to your degrees. The graduates seated in the first three rows of the left centre section will follow the marshal t