Learn where to be, what to do, and what to expect on graduation day!
Check-in / Rehearsal
Check-in time for graduates is 45 minutes prior to your ceremony. This is a tight timeline so please be on time. A brief rehearsal will follow check-in.
BE IN YOUR CAP AND GOWN PRIOR TO ARRIVING.
Please do not bring purses, briefcases, or other non-essential items to the graduation ceremony—there will be no place to store them.
Tickets
Corban University Commencement is a ticketed event. Tickets are not required for children under 2 years of age.
Guests will not be allowed to enter the auditorium during the processional or recessional.
*Anyone requiring special seating should arrive at least a half hour before the ceremony begins.
Undergraduate Degree Candidates
Corban University’s President will present the undergraduate degree candidates. The candidates will be asked to stand for the conferring of degrees. You may then be seated.
When instructed, your row will stand, and you will march forward to receive your diploma.
Enter the stage on the right. You will receive your diploma, shake hands with the President, exit to the left, and return to your seat.
*Be aware of the photographers who will take your picture upon receipt of your diploma and when you exit the stage.
Graduate Degree Candidates
Corban University’s President will present the graduate degree candidates. The candidates will be asked to stand for the conferring of degrees. You may then be seated.
When instructed, your row will stand and graduate degree candidates will proceed to the right side of the stage carrying their hood over their right arm. As your name is read, proceed toward the podium, stop between the two graduate school representatives, hand your hood to the representative on your right, and face the audience while the graduate school representatives place the hood over your head.
You will then proceed across the stage to receive your diploma, shake hands with the President, exit to the left, and return to your seat.
*Be aware of the photographers who will take your picture during the hooding, receipt of diploma, and when you exit the stage.
Graduation Recessional
Following the benediction and final words, the platform party and faculty will exit, followed by the graduates.
How to Wear Your Cap and Tassel
Pick up your cap. In the center of the top of the mortarboard (the flat square part of the cap), there is a button. Hang your tassel around this button.
Place the cap on your head, turning it so that the point is in the middle of your forehead. You may need to use bobby pins to keep the cap in place.
Arrange the mortarboard so that it is horizontal (parallel to the floor).
Wear the tassel on the right front side of your cap and mortarboard.
Honor Cords
Corban University awards honors to our undergrad students only. Qualifications for honors are listed below.
If you graduate with honors, you will receive your honor cords when you pick up your cap and gown. These honor cords are the only items that may be worn on your regalia. Honors are determined by your collegiate record at Corban University and are awarded to undergraduate students only:
- 3.90 GPA Summa cum laude (with greatest honor)
- 3.75 GPA Magna cum laude (with great honor)
- 3.60 GPA Cum laude (with honor)
To be eligible for honors you must have completed a minimum of 60 graded credit hours in residence.
*Verified academic honesty violations disqualify students from this honor.
How to Wear Your Honor Cords
The middle knot is put behind your neck. Bring the honor cords to the front, hanging down your sides with two tassels on each side.
Graduate Hoods
Graduate hoods are draped over the right arm and will be placed over the graduate’s head during the hooding ceremony at graduation.
Please wear appropriate attire for the commencement ceremony.