Faculty Information

Faculty in Commencement Regalia

Registration

Faculty are required to register their intent to participate in the Commencement Ceremonies in their regalia. 

Register

Ceremony Details

  • Timing: Each ceremony is anticipated to last approximately 1.5 hours.
  • Line-Up: The faculty line-up begins 30 minutes prior to the start of the ceremony. Ceremony times are listed here.
  • Robing & Line-Up Location: The robing room for all faculty is in the Skybox Lounge at the Whittemore Center Arena. Please look for signs directing you to the lounge. The robing room includes space to get changed into regalia, racks to store regalia between ceremonies, food and drink, and bathroom facilities. Faculty can also leave their belongings in the robing room during the ceremony.
  • Registration: Faculty registration is required.
  • Parking: Parking is available for registered faculty in the Edgewood Road Visitor Lot.

Regalia

  • Requirements: In recognition of the significance of commencement, all UNH faculty are expected to wear full academic regalia this includes a Masters, PhD, or Doctoral gown, and a hood representative of your highest degree earned and the institution at which it was earned. A cap or tam is preferred but not required.
  • Regalia Rental & Purchase is available through the university's independent vendor. Faculty are responsible for all rental, purchase, and shipping costs.
  • Borrow: Master's PhD, or Doctoral gowns are available to borrow on a first-come, first-served basis from the Commencement Office. Faculty can contact unh.commencement@unh.edu for more details. Please provide your height and highest degree earned in the email.

Faculty Hooding PhD and Doctoral Candidates

  • Registration: Faculty who will be hooding a PhD or Doctoral candidate during the ceremony need to register in advance. Please also coordinate with your student as they will also need to identify you as their hooder on their own registration.
  • Line-Up: Hooding faculty will line-up with their candidate(s) at the Hamel Recreation Center. Faculty need to arrive for line-up no later than 30 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the ceremony. Line-up begins 1 hour prior to the start.
  • Ceremony Details: PhD and Doctoral candidates will be hooded at the ceremony of the college which houses their program. Hooders will be seated with their candidate(s), procession into the ceremony with them, and proceed with them to the stage for hooding at the appropriate time as indicated by the Faculty Marshals. The candidate will carry their hood with them to the stage. The hooder will hood the candidate with the assistance of the Provost. Photos will be taken during the hooding process.
  • Regalia: Please see the regalia section above.
  • Parking: Parking will be available for hooding faculty in the Edgewood Road Visitor Lot

For additional questions, please contact the Commencement Office at unh.commencement@unh.edu