The Hooding and Recognition Ceremony honors our graduates and their hard work in earning an advanced degree. We hope you will join us to celebrate their accomplishments. Arrival Please arrive between 3:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Please arrive in your regalia, find your student(s) before assembling, and sit with your candidates. If you are hooding multiple candidates, please remain and sit together during the ceremony.Hooding ProceduresWhile many Ph.D. students prefer to be hooded by their adviser, all faculty members are eligible to participate. If an adviser cannot participate, a member of the graduate student’s committee or the University’s chief marshal can stand in. Students are only permitted to have one faculty member hood them, although all faculty members may attend the ceremony When it is time to hood the Ph.D. candidates, you and your student will walk together up to the stage. You will ascend first, walk across the platform, stop next to the chief marshal, and face the audience. Once your student’s name has been called, they will stand on an X in front of you. You will place the hood over their head from behind and straighten the tail of the hood. If you are hooding multiple students, remain next to the chief marshal until you have hooded the last candidate. Find step-by-step instructions in our How to Hood a Doctoral Candidate Guide.Faculty RegaliaPlease wear academic regalia from the institution from which you received your advanced degree. If you do not have regalia, you can rent or purchase it from our vendor, Harden and Associates: Rent regalia (deadline: April 18)Purchase regalia (deadline: March 24)You can also contact Harden & Associates by email, or by calling 800-228-7935. Frequently Asked Questions I have received an invitation to participate in the Hooding and Recognition Ceremony. Am I required to attend? While you are not required to attend, this is a celebration of our graduates and the work they have done to receive an advanced degree. We hope you will join us to celebrate their accomplishments. I am not able to attend the Hooding and Recognition Ceremony for my advisee, but would like them to participate. What can I do? While many Ph.D. students prefer to be hooded by their adviser, all faculty members are eligible to participate. Often if an adviser cannot participate themselves, a member of the graduate student’s committee is asked to hood the candidate. You may want to encourage a colleague to hood your advisee. Alternatively, the chief marshal will hood the student. If a student from my department is present at the Hooding and Recognition Ceremony without a faculty member to hood them, am I allowed to hood the student myself? Yes! We understand that not all faculty members are able to come to the ceremony, and we encourage you to hood any student who asks you and whom you feel comfortable hooding. Do I need my own regalia? All faculty members participating in the Hooding and Recognition Ceremony must wear academic regalia, which can be purchased or rented. Faculty members are expected to wear regalia from the institution from which they received their own advanced degree. What time do I need to arrive and what do I do once I get there? We ask that faculty and students participating in the Hooding and Recognition Ceremony arrive between 3:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. Faculty are asked to arrive in their regalia and find their student(s) before assembling. We ask faculty members to sit with their candidates. If you are hooding multiple candidates, we ask that you all remain together and sit together during the ceremony. How do I hood a candidate? When it is time to hood the Ph.D. candidates, the student and faculty member will walk together up to the stage. Faculty members will ascend the stage first, walk across the platform, stop next to the chief marshal and face the audience. Once your student’s name has been called, the student will stand on an X in front of you. You will place the hood over their head from behind and straighten the tail of the hood. You can find step-by-step instructions in our How to Hood a Doctoral Candidate Guide. I co-advise a student, and both advisers would like to participate. Can this be done? While both advisers can attend the Hooding and Recognition Ceremony, students are only permitted to have one faculty member hood them. I have been asked to hood multiple students. What is the process for this? You will process on stage in front of your first student and remain on stage next to the chief marshal until you have hooded the last candidate.