Bauer Graduation Commencement
Tickets for the Ceremony
- To ensure adequate seating, the ceremony will be ticketed. All guests, including infants two years or older, must have a ticket for entry. There is no charge for these tickets.
- All candidates who have filed their paperwork by the specified deadline and have been approved to walk at Commencement may order tickets.
- Based on projected participation, each candidate participating may order up to 5 guest tickets.
- Additional tickets may be available depending upon the number of candidates attending the ceremony.
Explanation of 5-Ticket Maximum
- Each participating graduate will be allocated 5 tickets for guests (the graduate doesn't need a ticket for admission).
- The Cullen Performance Hall will accommodate 1,100 guests, and historically we have 220 graduates participating in the Commencement ceremony. The following calculation will show why the ticket number is 5 (5 x 220 = 1,100).
Admission By Ticket Only
Each guest must present a ticket in order to be admitted to the Cullen Performance Hall. As mentioned previously, graduating students do not need a ticket for admission.
Guest Seating Expectations
Please inform members of your party, particularly special needs guests, that:
- It is assigned seating in the Cullen Performance Hall and doors open at 6:00 p.m. Doors close temporarily at 7:00 pm while graduates walk in.
- The ceremony will last approximately 1 1/2 hours.
- Special needs guests (on crutches or in wheel chairs) will sit in a reserved area; a ticket issued to a special needs guest is considered to be part of the 5 ticket maximum. Please indicate on your Graduate Commencement Form if you have a guest requiring a special needs ticket.
- Toddlers 2 years or older sitting on someone's lap must use 1 of the 5 tickets.
- Placing chairs in any location, standing in any location, sitting in aisles, etc., are fire code violations and will not be permitted.
- If young children are not able to sit quietly, a family member is expected to step outside with them so as not to disturb the other guests.
Ordering Tickets
Candidates must order their commencement tickets via the Graduate Commencement Form September 19 - October 10 in order to reserve Commencement tickets.
Candidates who file their paperwork late or who do not fill out the Graduate Commencement Form September 19 through October 10 are not guaranteed the maximum number of guest tickets. However, we will do our best to assist late applicants, to the extent possible. Lost tickets can not be replaced.
Due to Hurricane Ike the deadline to make reservations to walk has been extended to October 29.
Ticket Distribution
November 24 – 26 and December 1 - 5, 2008
Location: Melcher Hall Suite 330
Ticket orders must be picked up in person, at the Graduate and Professional Programs Office, between November 24 -26 or December 1- 5. You must show your student ID to receive your tickets. If you do not pick your tickets up by December 5, they will be released to other graduates. Ticket distribution dates and times are:
- Monday, November 24, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
- Tuesday, November 25, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
- Wednesday, November 26, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
- Monday, December 1, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
- Tuesday, December 2, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.
- Wednesday, December 3, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
- Thursday, December 4, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.
- Friday, December 5, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
If you cannot pick up your tickets in person
If you are unable to pick up your tickets during any of the distribution times, you may designate someone to serve as your "courier" when you fill out a Graduate Commencement Form and order your tickets.
How to designate a “courier”
In order to pick up your tickets, your courier must come to the Graduate & Professional Programs (GPP) Office in suite 330 MH during the Commencement ticket distribution period with:
- A copy of the confirmation of participation email that you will receive from the GPP office naming them as your courier, and
- A valid photo ID
- They must sign for your tickets when they receive them.
Unused Tickets
You are encouraged to return any tickets that you will not be using to the Graduate & Professional Programs Office suite 330 MH so that the tickets can be made available to other students or bring them to the ticket table (located in front of the Cullen Performance Hall) the day of commencement.
Additional Tickets
All unclaimed tickets will be available for students who need additional tickets. If additional tickets are available, students will have to pick them up on December 9. Tickets are available on a first-come first-served basis.
Commencement tickets that have not been picked up by December 5, 2008, will be released.
Procedure for receiving additional tickets
(For Graduates/Candidates who have completed a Graduate Commencement Form)
If additional tickets are available, they will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis Tuesday, December 9, starting at 9:00 a.m., in the Graduate & Professional Programs Office, Melcher Hall Suite 330.If you do not pick up your additional tickets by 12:00 pm your additional tickets will be released.
Graduates/candidates should come in person with their student ID in order to receive the additional tickets. The ticket limit for additional tickets is based on availability.
If you cannot pick up additional tickets yourself
If you had already assigned a courier to pick up your original tickets, we will honor that same courier to pick up additional tickets for you.
Those who are not able to come in person to pick up additional tickets or if the graduate/candidate lives out of town and has not designated a courier, he or she may do so by notifying TJ Young at tjyoung2@uh.edu before December 5. The graduate/candidate needs to include the following information in their communication:
- Their full name and PeopleSoft number
- Degree being awarded
- The full name of the individual whom they have designated to act as courier
The courier will be authorized to pick up additional tickets for the graduate/candidate and will be responsible to deliver said tickets to the graduate/candidate. The courier must bring the student ID card of the graduate/candidate for whom they are picking up tickets. If the courier is a graduate/candidate he or she may only serve as courier for themselves and to 2 other people.
The courier must bring their ID card to pick up the tickets for the graduate/candidate
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