{"id":176,"date":"2023-11-13T16:24:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T16:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2026-03-08T21:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T02:26:36","slug":"faculty-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/student-resources\/graduation\/faculty-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Information"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":81,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"include_countdowns":false,"intro_text_subtitle":"Celebrate our graduates!","intro_text_body":"

Please visit the\u00a0UIC Commencement website<\/a> for the most up to date information regarding the Spring 2026 commencement ceremonies.<\/h3>\n

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The spring 2026 commencement is scheduled for Thursday, May 7 at 6:30pm<\/strong>\u00a0in the Credit Union 1 Arena.<\/p>\n

Faculty who will be participating in the May ceremony (e.g. hooding a doctoral candidate or representing the AHS faculty) must wear regalia.\u00a0 Faculty regalia orders are due on April 7<\/strong> using the following REGALIA ORDER FORM<\/a><\/p>\n

NOTE: You will need to have a customer number and order number.<\/p>\n

Customer number for all colleges is 12015968000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

AHS Order number:<\/p>\n

5475059 (UIC Red PhD)<\/p>\n

5469103 (all other regalia except red PhD robes)<\/p>\n

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You can order your regalia using the following\u00a0form<\/a>.\u00a0 (NOTE:\u00a0 This form has been modified since last year, so there are new fields to complete.) Faculty must submit their regalia orders no later than April 7 in order to ensure that appropriate attire is received in time for commencement. You\u2019ll receive a confirmation notification after submitting your order. If you don\u2019t receive a confirmation notice upon submitting the form, your order has not been processed. Please resubmit the order until you receive a confirmation notice.<\/p>\n

Regalia for commencement cannot be guaranteed for faculty who don\u2019t submit their robe orders by this deadline. Regalia orders will be available early during the week of commencement. Regalia should be returned following the ceremony in the bins located outside of the dressing rooms in the Arena.<\/p>\n

NOTE: You will need to have a customer number and order number.<\/p>\n

Customer number for all colleges is 12015968000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The order number is based on college.\u00a0 Please note that UIC Red PhD Regalia has a separate order number from other regalia.\u00a0 See below:<\/p>\n

APPLIED HEALTH SCIENCE
\n5469103
\n5475059 (Red PhD)<\/p>\n","include_image":false,"image":false,"is_decorative":false,"image_alt_text":"","image_caption":"","image_attribution":"","image_alignment":false,"include_link_list":false,"link_list_button_type":"text","link_list_items":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_block","title":"Roles","hide_title":false,"italicize_title":false,"text_block_disable_bottom_margin":false,"text":"

Faculty generally fall into one of four roles for the ceremony, each with different responsibilities.<\/p>\n

Platform party members<\/h3>\n

Platform party members include university administrators, college dean, department heads, guest speakers, alumni awardees, and other college administrators as designated. Platform party members should plan to attend the Commencement rehearsal in the days prior to the ceremony if available.\u00a0 For those unable to attend rehearsal, please contact Eileen Doran for additional information about your role prior to the day of the ceremony. The commencement coordinator will contact all applicable platform party members with details regarding the rehearsal. Platform party members should arrive by 6:15pm and proceed to the platform party line-up area. (NOTE:\u00a0 A rehearsal is scheduled for platform party members, marshals, and hooders on May TBD in the Arena.)<\/p>\n

Faculty marshals<\/h3>\n

There will be several new changes implemented for the Spring 2025 Commencement ceremonies.\u00a0 Faculty marshals will not be required from each academic program.\u00a0 The commencement coordinator will reach out to program directors to determine which faculty will serve as marshals for their department.\u00a0 Graduates will be seated by level (PhD, professional doctorate (OTD\/DCEP\/DPT), Master\u2019s, and Bachelor\u2019s).\u00a0\u00a0 All graduates\u2019 names will be prerecorded and embedded as part of their personalized graduation slide, so faculty marshals will not be announcing graduate names.\u00a0 However, in the event of a technical error, a faculty marshal may be asked to announce graduates\u2019 whose names are not recorded or until the system is active again.\u00a0 Faculty marshals should plan to attend the AHS Commencement rehearsal in the days prior to the commencement ceremony. Faculty marshals will have assigned seats on the floor and will not be required to process in.\u00a0 They can take their seat upon arrival to the arena and meet the graduates on the floor.\u00a0 Graduates will have an electronic QR code that will be scanned as they approach the stage which will trigger their personalized slide to appear on the screen.\u00a0 For details about the rehearsal, faculty marshals should contact the commencement coordinator. Faculty marshals should arrive by 6:00 pm in the Arena to greet the graduates.\u00a0 (NOTE:\u00a0 A rehearsal is scheduled for platform party members, marshals, and doctoral hooders on May TBD in the Credit Union 1 Arena.)<\/p>\n

Doctoral Advisors<\/h3>\n

PhD advisors should arrive no later than 6:00 pm to join their graduates in the graduate seating area. PhD advisors will not process in to the Arena and can go directly to the graduate seating area to meet their advisee(s.)\u00a0 Degree candidates should save a seat next to them for their advisors.\u00a0 PhD advisors will be seated with their advisees during the ceremony. Advisors should confirm with their graduates prior to the regalia order deadline of April 7 whether they are planning to participate in the spring commencement ceremony.\u00a0 PhD advisors will walk up on stage with their candidates and hood them as appropriate. PhD advisors will exit the stage with their advisees. PhD advisors are welcome to attend the rehearsal in the days prior to the commencement ceremony.\u00a0 Four DPT advisors and three OTD advisors will be assigned to hood the graduating DPT and OTD graduates.\u00a0 The DPT\/OTD hooders will be seated at the front of the graduate seating area with the graduates from their department.\u00a0 DCEP advisors will hood the graduating DCEP students.\u00a0 All advisors\/hooders participating in the ceremony will have an assigned seat.\u00a0 Please follow up with the commencement coordinator for details regarding the rehearsal and seat assignments. (NOTE:\u00a0 A rehearsal is scheduled for platform party members, marshals, and hooders on May TBD in the Arena.)\u00a0 For those unable to attend rehearsal, please contact Eileen Doran for additional information about your role prior to the day of the ceremony.<\/p>\n

GRADUATE COLLEGE HOODING CEREMONY:\u00a0 AHS PhD candidates will be hooded at the spring AHS Commencement ceremony.\u00a0 Graduates who are unable to attend the AHS ceremony on Thursday, May 7, 2026 may wish to attend the Graduate College hooding ceremony on Friday, May 8, 2026.\u00a0 PhD candidates can attend both ceremonies but are encouraged to participate in the AHS commencement ceremony.\u00a0 Faculty who are hooding PhD candidates should talk to their advisees to confirm their ceremony participation before the regalia order deadline of April 7, 2026.<\/p>\n

AHS faculty<\/h3>\n

All faculty not identified in the categories above (excluding banner carriers), should arrive by 6:00 pm. Faculty should follow the signs to the faculty robing area. Faculty without one of the roles specified above can line up in any order to process in to the Arena.\u00a0 Faculty who are marshals or doctoral hooders will not process in and should meet their graduates on the floor of the Arena prior to the start of the ceremony.\u00a0 At the conclusion of the ceremony, faculty are encouraged to join their graduates outside the Arena for photos and to congratulate graduates.<\/p>\n","include_image":false,"image":false,"is_decorative":false,"image_alt_text":"","image_caption":"","image_attribution":"","image_alignment":false,"include_link_list":false,"link_list_button_type":"text","link_list_items":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_block","title":"Parking","hide_title":false,"italicize_title":false,"text_block_disable_bottom_margin":false,"text":"

Parking will be available at no charge in Lots 1A\/1B (1109\/1139 West Harrison Street).\u00a0\u00a0 Refer to the\u00a0UIC Commencement website<\/a>\u00a0for additional details.<\/p>\n","include_image":false,"image":false,"is_decorative":false,"image_alt_text":"","image_caption":"","image_attribution":"","image_alignment":false,"include_link_list":false,"link_list_button_type":"text","link_list_items":false}],"include_notifications":false,"include_billboards":false,"SEO_meta_description":"","raw_code":"","hide_subtitle":false},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-24 14:36:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30501,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions\/30501"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}