What do the graduating students do during the SLIS Convocation?
When the graduate and their family arrive at the convocation location, we collect their ticket stubs at the door. Then the graduate student and the family/guests separate. The graduate student goes directly to check-in and the family and guests go into the auditorium to seat themselves. The graduates can be wearing their cap and gown when they arrive or they can arrive in street clothes and change in the auditorium restrooms. Please do not wear the lemon-colored hood over your shoulders; instead, drape it on your left arm. After the graduates have checked in, they fill out a photography card and stay in the staging area to be sorted into alphabetical order and lined up. As the ceremony begins, the SLIS director and faculty start the procession and the graduating students follow. The SLIS faculty are seated on the stage and the graduates all sit together in a special area at the front of the auditorium. A series of speakers talk, and after that each student is called by name individuall
