175Th Annual Commencement Guide for Undergraduates and Guests 2020
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175th Annual Commencement 2020 commencement guide for undergraduates and guests may 16, 2020 fordham.edu/commencement A contents 2 caps and gowns Ordering Your Cap and Gown Graduate Salutes and Distributions Late Distribution Times Wearing Your Academic Attire 4 university commencement Assembly of Candidates Broadcast Order of the Academic Procession The University Commencement Ceremony 6 diploma ceremonies 8 severe weather 10 campus map 12 travel information Directions Parking Hotel Information 16 senior week Events at Lincoln Center Events at Rose Hill 18 fordham legacy 20 general information Announcements Bookstore Emergency Services Food Service Moving Out of the Residence Halls at Rose Hill People with Disabilities Photos and Videotaping Restrooms Severe Weather Plan Guest Tickets 22 important dates 22 contact information COMMENCEMENT DAY IS APPROACHING QUICKLY. While it promises to be a wonderful day, your cooperation can make it even better. Please take a moment to review this booklet. It contains important information about the University Commencement. In particular, please note that only in the event of severe weather will guest tickets be required. If you have questions after reading the booklet, please visit fordham.edu/commencement, email [email protected], call the Office of the University Secretary at 718-817-3010, or contact one of the offices listed on the back cover. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, May 16! caps and gowns Ordering Your Cap and Gown Caps and gowns for all undergraduates are provided by the University. If you place your order online (fordham.edu/capandgown) before the Friday, March 13 deadline, your cap and gown will be available at the events listed below, but only at the campus selected while ordering. Be sure to bring your email confirmation, along with your student ID card. When picking up your cap and gown, don’t forget to update your contact information with Alumni Relations. Rose Hill students may schedule their senior portraits to be taken at the Rose Hill Graduate Salute on Monday, April 20, or Tuesday, April 21. Please keep in mind that your student account must be paid in full or appropriate arrangements made before picking up your cap and gown. Also, you must have applied to graduate through my.fordham.edu or have the permission of your dean. If you did not preorder your gown online, you may still attend the Graduate Salutes at Lincoln Center or Rose Hill and receive a cap and gown on a first-come, Late Distribution first-served basis. Times Bachelor’s candidates are given keeper If caps and gowns are not gowns and therefore do not return picked up at the academic attire. Graduate Salutes or at the Westchester Graduate Salutes and Distributions Distributions, they must Lincoln Center Graduate Salutes be picked up at the Rose 140 West 62nd Street, Ground Floor Hill campus on the (FCLC and Gabelli students begin in the following dates and McNally Amphitheatre) times. A $10 late fee Wednesday, April 15 l 5 – 7 p.m. (cash only) will be Thursday, April 16 l 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. charged to all Rose Hill Graduate Salutes undergraduates who McGinley Center Ballroom and pick up their caps and Campus Center Lounge gowns at the late Monday, April 20 l 2 – 7 p.m. distributions. Tuesday, April 21 l 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Rose Hill Campus, Westchester Distributions McGinley Center Student Room 204 Lounge (Basement Level) Thursday, May 14 l 4 – 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 21 l 3 – 7 p.m. Friday, May 15 l 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Wednesday, April 22 l 3 – 7 p.m. Saturday, May 16 l 8 – 10 a.m. 2 fordham.edu/commencement Wearing Your Academic Attire The gowns and colors of academic dress indicate the graduate’s level of academic accomplishment, discipline, and school/university affiliation. We ask for graduates’ cooperation in not modifying academic attire with personal items that may distract from the academic ritual. The cut of the gown identifies the degree. The bachelor’s gown has pointed sleeves, while the master’s gown has oblong-cut sleeves. The doctoral gown has bell-shaped sleeves typically crossed with bands of velvet. The length of the hood indicates the level of the degree. The color of the velvet border indicates the field of learning in which the degree was earned and includes white for arts, gold for science, and brown for fine arts. The inner lining of Fordham hoods is maroon, the University’s official color. For the academic procession, graduates carry the hood draped over their left arm with the color that represents the degree clearly visible. Candidates don their hoods after the president has conferred all degrees. The hood should be placed around the neck and shoulders so that the major portion hangs down the back and the velvet is up. The bachelor’s cap is worn with the long point of the shell to the rear and the tassel to the left. Caps and gowns (but not hoods) should should also be worn to Encaenia, the Gabelli School of Business Awards for Rose Hill students, the Gabelli School of Business Honors Ceremony for Lincoln Center students, and the Fordham College at Lincoln Center Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 15. For any questions regarding academic attire, contact Steve Clarke from Herff Jones Inc. at [email protected] or 516-223-2572. university commencement Each candidate who has fulfilled the ORDER OF THE requirements for a degree is encouraged ACADEMIC PROCESSION to participate in the University • The Grand Marshal Commencement. Please note that degree • Fordham College at recipients are required to wear caps and Rose Hill (FCRH) gowns. • Gabelli School of Tickets are not required for admission to Business, bachelor’s the Rose Hill campus or to the University • Fordham School of Commencement ceremony on Edwards Professional and Parade on Saturday, May 16. However, in Continuing Studies (PCS) the event of severe weather, tickets will • Fordham College at be required (see pages 8–9). Lincoln Center (FCLC) Assembly of Candidates • Graduate School of Religion and Religious All graduates must be at the appropriate Education, master’s line-up site near Keating, Spellman, Tierney, and O’Hare Halls no later than • Graduate School of Education, master’s 9:30 a.m. with their caps and gowns. (See pages 10–11 for your school’s or • Graduate School of Arts college’s location.) Signs will be posted and Sciences, master’s that day to assist you. The Victory Bell • Gabelli School of sounds at 9:55 a.m., and the academic Business, master’s procession begins immediately thereafter. • School of Law Please proceed under your faculty • Graduate School of marshal’s direction. As the oldest of Social Service, Ph.D. Fordham’s schools, Fordham College at • Graduate School of Rose Hill leads the procession. Religion and Religious Education, D.M. and Ph.D. Fordham College at Lincoln Center graduates: When you arrive at the line-up • Gabelli School of area between O’Hare and Tierney Halls, Business, D.P.S. check in and pick up your calling card prior • Graduate School of to the start of the academic procession. Education, Ed.D. and Ph.D. • Graduate School of Arts Broadcast and Sciences, Ph.D. The University Commencement ceremony • The Alumni is broadcast over radio station WFUV (90.7 FM) and at wfuv.org. You may view • The Faculty Senate the University Commencement ceremony • The Faculty and all diploma ceremonies online at • The Administrators fordham.edu/commencement. • The Platform Party 4 fordham.edu/commencement The University Commencement Ceremony When you reach Edwards Parade, please be seated while the procession continues. Remain seated until honored guests and University officials reach Keating Terrace. After everyone has processed in, please rise for the invocation and remain standing throughout the presentation of the colors and playing of the national anthem. Honorary degrees are then awarded to several candidates who will be announced at a later date. One of the honorary degree candidates will then address the degree candidates and their guests. Next, the dean of each school in the University presents to the president a scroll containing the listing of names of candidates for degrees. Father McShane then asks all candidates for degrees and all faculty members to stand. After the conferral of degrees, all graduates are to put their hoods over their heads, don their caps, and be seated. One student representative from each school will be hooded by the dean and receive a diploma. The doctoral candidates are then individually recognized by the president. Father McShane then congratulates all of the graduates. Following a benediction and the singing of the Alma Mater, all students, except FCRH graduates, leave Edwards Parade. Following their faculty marshals, FCLC graduates walk past the Cunniffe Fountain, turn left at Cunniffe House, and proceed directly to their seats on the Walsh Family Library Lawn. Gabelli students (bachelor’s candidates) turn right out of Edwards Parade and follow their faculty marshals to their designated line-up area under the football stadium bleachers. PCS students turn right out of Edwards Parade and walk with their faculty marshals to Fordham Prep. fordham.edu/commencement 5 diploma ceremonies At the conclusion of the University Commencement ceremony, graduates (except for FCRH graduates, who will remain on Edwards Parade) will process to their diploma ceremony locations. Graduates will be called up individually to receive their diplomas at these ceremonies. Graduates, please return immediately to your seat after receiving your diploma. This is a final courtesy to your classmates, and it will speed up the ceremony. There will be a professional photographer from Island Photography (FCRH, FCLC, and Gabelli) or Grad Images (PCS) who will photograph each of the graduates as they receive their diploma from the dean.