CEREMONIAL
ACADEMIC DRESS
| Chancellor | |
| Cap: | Black velvet trencher with gold tassel and gold braid edging. |
| Gown: | Light weight blue brocade with gold braid and fabric trim. |
| Vice-Chancellor | |
| Cap: | Black velvet trencher with silver tassel and silver braid edging. |
| Gown: | Light weight blue brocade with silver braid and fabric trim. |
| Council | |
| Cap: | Black trencher with silver tassel. |
| Gown: | Black Cambridge-style Masters. Black Oxford-style hood fully lined with silver satin. |
| Doctor of Philosophy | |
| Cap: | Tudor bonnet of royal blue velvet with gold cord around crown with two small gold tassels. |
| Gown: | Royal blue fabric with facings and linings of faille of ‘doctor’s red’. Hood of same fabric as gown lined with same red faille. |
| Graduate | |
| Cap: | Black trencher with black tassel. |
| Gown: | Black Cambridge-style undergraduate. Black Oxford-style hood fully lined with gold satin. For Bachelor’s honours graduates, the hood carries an edging strip in gold satin. |
| Undergraduate | |
| Cap: | Black trencher with black tassel. |
| Gown: | Black Cambridge-style undergraduate. Black Oxford-style hood fully lined with blue satin. |
GRADUATION PROCEDURES
Notification of intention to graduate
Students who have completed the requirements for their course and wish to be awarded a degree, diploma or certificate, should complete an ‘Application for Finalisation of an Award’ form. This form is available at Examinations and Ceremonies (contact details on page ) or at each Faculty office.
Graduation Ceremonies
Information regarding Graduation Ceremonies will be forwarded to graduands no later than three weeks before the date of their ceremony.
Graduation dates are shown in Important Dates inside the front cover.
Students with outstanding debts are not permitted to graduate.
Any student who does not wish to attend a Graduation Ceremony can have their degree conferred in absentia at a University Council meeting (held monthly except for January).
Academic Dress
James Cook University academic dress must be worn at the ceremony. Dress may be purchased from the University Bookshop (07 4781 4812) or hired (limited quantities) from the Student Association Shop (07 4781 6396). Doctor of Philosophy gowns are available for hire from Examinations and Ceremonies (07 4781 4246).
UNIVERSITY MEDALS
1. Each year the Council will award a University Medal to each person who has qualified for a bachelor degree with first class honours and in the opinion of the Council has shown outstanding merit in the degree course. (“Degree course” means all the studies, irrespective of where and when they were undertaken, that have been credited towards the person’s degree.) In normal circumstances, not more than 10% of students graduating with first class honours will be awarded a University Medal each year.
2. A recommendation for the award of a Medal shall be made by the appropriate faculty to the Standing Committee of the Academic Board.
3. A Faculty shall recommend the award of a Medal only if the person concerned
- has completed while enrolled at the University at least the second half of the degree course;
- has shown a high quality of performance throughout the course; and
- has shown outstanding merit in the field of specialisation.
4. A Faculty may recommend the award of a Medal to a person who has taken one year more than the minimum time to complete a degree course provided that the extra time was due to circumstances other than academic failure.
5. A Faculty may recommend the award of a Medal to two or more persons who have studied in the same school. Save in exceptional circumstances, not more than one University Medal will be awarded in one discipline in any one year.
6. A Faculty may recommend the award of a Medal to a person who has qualified for a second bachelor degree with first class honours and who otherwise fulfils the requirements of these conditions.
7. In considering recommendations from the Faculties, the Standing Committee shall maintain, as far as possible, uniformity of practice. Each recommendation of which the Committee approves shall be transmitted to the Academic Board for further recommendation to the Council.