| Home • Commencement Ceremony • Grad Finale • Contact Us |
| What to Bring |
| Invitations |
| Photography |
| Procession |
| Family & Guests |
| Special Needs |
What to Bring to Commencement
Degree candidates should purchase their caps and gowns from the University Bookstore (link) prior to the ceremony and should be sure to bring them, along with their tassels, to Commencement. Students should not bring purses, pagers, cell phones, etc., into VBC. Personal items may not be left in the assembly or robing areas during the ceremony.Academic Regalia
Commencement is an occasion marking a special time in a student?s academic career. Appropriate attire for the occasion is a black academic gown and mortarboard with no personal accessories or messages. Student members of academic honor societies may wear their insignia or honor cord of that academic honor society. Flowers, personal jewelry, pins or cords from social fraternities and sororities are not to be worn on academic robes. (See approved list below).
Caps and Gowns
Caps and gowns may be purchased at Grad Finale or in the University Bookstore (link) Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; and Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The last day to purchase caps and gowns is May 10, 2008.
Tassels
White - Liberal Arts
Gold - Science
Orange - Engineering
Apricot - Nursing
Drab - Business
Old Gold - Doctoral
UAH Honor Cords
UAH Honor Cords for those undergraduates who are eligible have been purchased by the University and will be available at the Von Braun Center during the robing process. Graduation honors are not bestowed upon students receiving MS or PhD degrees; therefore graduate degree recipients do not receive or wear honor cords.
Approved Academic Honor Societies
Students graduating with university-wide and academic honors who are members of the following organizations may wear the cords, ribbons, collars, jewelry, etc., described below on their robes at Commencement.
UNIVERSITY
Phi Kappa Phi (Scholarship) - blue and gold cords with fringed tassels
Omicron Delta Kappa (Leadership) - white, black and blue twisted cords
Alpha Epsilon Delta (Pre-Med) - purple and pink cords
Sigma Xi-Scientific Research Society - blue and white cords with tassels
Alpha Lambda Delta - gold, red and white cords
ENGINEERING
Tau Beta Pi (Engineering) - white satin collar with red embroidered bent in orange
Omega Chi Epsilon (Chemical Engineering) - white satin collar (society officers) and maroon and white cord/rope (members)
Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering) - gold braided cord with royal blue and scarlet tassels
Alpha Pi Mu (Industrial & Systems Engineering) - white satin and gold stole
Pi Tau Sigma (Mechanical Engineering) - azure
Sigma Gamma Tau (Aerospace Engineering) - stole with red shoulders and white satin tips
NURSING
Sigma Theta Tau (Nursing) - purple and white cords
BUSINESS
Beta Gamma Sigma (Business) - blue ribbons
Beta Alpha Psi (Accounting) - pins
LIBERAL ARTS
Kappa Pi (Art) - purple and gold cords
Lambda Pi Eta (Communication Arts) - red and white cords
Kappa Delta Pi (Education) - teal green and purple cords
Psi Chi (Psychology) - blue and gold cords
Sigma Tau Delta (English) - red and black braided cords, 2- medallion attached to red ribbon
Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science) - medallions with red ribbons
Phi Alpha Theta (History) - Madonna red and blue cords with multi-colored tassel at each end
Alpha Kappa Delta (Sociology) - teal cord
Phi Sigma Iota - (Foreign Languages) - purple and gold cords
SCIENCE Sigma Pi Sigma (Physics) - green and ivory tassels and cords
