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university of central oklahoma Special Notes for Graduates and Their Guests • Free ice water will be available in the south lobby concession area throughout the ceremony. TV monitors and extra seating also will be available in the lobby. • Guests may not take photos from the Field House floor during the commencement ceremony. • As a point of courtesy, and to maintain the dignity of this formal ceremony, guests and graduates should remain in the Field House until the commencement is formally concluded with the recessional. • At the conclusion of commencement, all graduates will be led off the Field House floor as part of the recessional. It is important that all graduates immediately exit the Field House as part of the recessional. Guests should meet graduates there, not inside the Field House. • UCO’s Barnes & Noble will sell UCO gift items from an area located in the foyer until 20 minutes before the ceremony begins. video of ceremony available Graduation Nation, a commencement video company, will be producing today's commencement ceremony from start to finish. Please visit GraduationNation.com to purchase a DVD of the video. Orders will take 6 to 8 weeks to ship and come with a money-back guarantee. The video will show the entire ceremony, including all graduates crossing the stage. This is a contract service. The University of Central Oklahoma assumes no responsiblity or liability for orders or content. Commencement photographs will be taken by the professional photography firm of Graduation Foto. Graduation Foto is a private vendor, not affiliated with the University of Central Oklahoma. The University of Central Oklahoma assumes no responsibility or liability with respect to the photographic PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES services performed by Graduation Foto. UCO graduates and their families may purchase photographs at their option from Graduation Foto. In order to maintain the dignity of the commencement exercise, only authorized representatives of Graduation Foto will be allowed within the restricted area to photograph graduates during the commencement ceremony. Visit gradfoto.com to order photos. Commencement's event number will be emailed to each student. For more information, contact Graduation Foto at bob@gradfoto.com or call (405) 364-1779. 8
commencement - spring 2012 The Tradition of Academic Dress The precise origins of the several parts of academic dress still remain a matter of conjecture. The unheated buildings which medieval scholars frequented may have necessitated the wearing of gowns for comfort’s sake. The gowns and the hoods were common at British universities before the 14th century; the square cap is thought to be a 16th century import from the University of Paris. European universities continue to use a wide variety in the cut and color of gowns and the type of head wear worn. Academic attire began to appear on United States campuses in the late 1890s. Since that time, its use has become universal for solemn university functions, and its pattern is highly uniform. From the color and cut of the American academic attire, one may determine the institution from which the wearer received the degree and the degree earned. The Cap The mortarboard has become the universally accepted style in United States colleges and universities. The standard tassel worn by faculty is black. However those with doctoral degrees may wear a gold tassel. Candidates for degrees have colored tassels that identify the student’s college as follows: Business Administration................ Drab Education & Professional Studies..............................Light Blue Fine Arts & Design....Chocolate Brown Liberal Arts.........................Kelly Green Mathematics & Science........................ Golden Yellow Graduate..................... Bronze and Blue Associate........................................Gray The gown The bachelor’s gown has a long, pleated front with shirring across the shoulders and back. The flowing sleeves are pointed at the fingertip and are almost knee length. The master’s gown has oblong sleeves that reach well below the knees. The sleeves are cut so that the forearm comes through a slit just above the elbow. The doctor’s gown has broad, velvet panels down the front, and three velvet bars on full, round sleeves. This velvet trimming may be either black or a color distinctive of the degree. The associate's gown is the same style as a bachelor's, but dark gray. The hood The Master’s Hooding Ceremony focuses on advanced degree candidates and their accomplishments, while adding visual meaning. The colors of the hood’s silk lining represent university colors, which for Central are Bronze and Blue. The color of the hood’s velvet border represents the field of learning, such as light blue for Education or golden yellow for Science. The colors The fields of learning identified by the color of the velvet panels and sleeve bars on the gown or the edging of the hood include the following: Arts and Letters........................... White Business........................................ Drab Education..............................Light Blue Engineering................................Orange Fine Arts.....................................Brown Law............................................. Purple Medicine......................................Green Music.............................................Pink Nursing......................................Apricot Philosophy............................ Dark Blue Physical Education.............. Sage Yellow Science........................... Golden Yellow Social Science..............................Citron Theology.....................................Scarlet 9
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