Dear Graduates who plan to walk in Commencement, <br><br>For those of you graduating...this email I received may help you understand the process.� They have changed the order this year from MED graduating first to PHD being hooded first...so that may change when you tell family to come.� This email is for PHD faculty but it explains the process and I am not sure if they send one of these to graduates so I am sharing!� :)�� Delete if is does not apply to you!<br>
<br>See you on Friday!<br>Dr. Franklin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Katherine Tadlock</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tadlockk@ohio.edu">tadlockk@ohio.edu</a>></span><br>
Date: Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:20 PM<br>Subject: Commencement Escort Information<br>To: <a href="mailto:tadlockk@ohio.edu">tadlockk@ohio.edu</a><br><br><br>Greetings. You are receiving this e-mail because you are escorting a doctoral<br>
candidate in the annual Commencement Ceremony on Friday. With Commencement<br>
just days away, I am writing to provide additional details you might find<br>
useful.<br>
<br>
Check in for Commencement and doctoral hooding will begin at<br>
8:30 in the parking garage level of the Convocation Center on Friday,<br>
June 11, 2010. Please note that Masters degree candidates are also gathering in<br>
the parking area, and their gathering place is separate from the<br>
doctoral gathering spot. The Doctoral check in tables are located on the river<br>
side of the Convocation garage, near the internal stairwell. There will be<br>
signs to assist you.<br>
<br>
The Graduate College will have staff on hand to assist with line up.<br>
Spring doctoral graduates will be receiving their diplomas during the<br>
ceremony, so a seating order is required. There will be seating<br>
charts and name tags on your seats to help you.<br>
<br>
Doctoral candidates will be hooded prior to the recognition of<br>
Master's candidates. Ph.D. and Ed.D. candidates will lead, with AuD<br>
and DPT candidates next. Students and escorts are seated together. Degrees are<br>
awarded by academic college in alphabetical order, beginning with Arts &<br>
Sciences.<br>
<br>
If you are escorting more than one student, you will be grouped together with<br>
your students. You will follow your first student up to the platform, then<br>
remain on the platform for each additional student, following your last<br>
student as they exit. Escorts who are also members of the Platform Party will<br>
meet your student on the platform for hooding. If you are escorting students<br>
in more than one college, you will be seated with your student in the first<br>
college. After you exit the platform, you will need to circle back to meet up<br>
with your next student.<br>
<br>
For the hooding ceremony, you will follow your student up the ramp to the<br>
platform, where you will meet the Dean of your college, who will assist with<br>
the hooding. Following hooding and hand shakes, you and your student will<br>
cross to the middle of the platform,shake hands with President McDavis, and<br>
then exit the platform. Diplomas are handed out at the far end of the<br>
platform, and this is also where photos are taken. After exiting the platform,<br>
please return to your seat. There is a recessional at the end of the ceremony.<br>
<br>
I look forward to seeing you on Friday.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Katie<br>
<br>
Katherine Demory Tadlock, Ph.D.<br>
Director, Graduate Student Services<br>
Graduate College<br>
Ohio University<br>
Athens OH 45701<br>
740.593.2860 - office<br>
740.593.4625 - fax<br>
<a href="http://www.ohio.edu/graduate/" target="_blank">www.ohio.edu/graduate/</a><br>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<br>Dr. Teresa Franklin<br>Professor<br>Instructional Technology<br>Educational Studies Dept.<br>313D McCracken Hall<br>College of Education<br>Ohio University<br>PH: 740-593-4561<br>
Fax: 740-593-0477<br><a href="mailto:franklit@ohio.edu">franklit@ohio.edu</a><br>@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@<br>