The University of Auckland(1)
The academic dress worn by members of the University at any public ceremony of the University shall be the costume appropriate to their degree, but doctors may on special occasions wear a scarlet gown. Graduates admitted ad eundem statum may wear the academic costume of their own university.(2)
Chancellor
Robe: blue damask with gold lace facings, and bearing on each shoulder the Coat of Arms of the University.
Cap: black velvet trencher with gold lace and tassel.
Pro-Chancellor
Robe: black with blue silk and gold lace facings, and bearing on each shoulder the Coat of Arms of the University.
Cap: black velvet trencher with gold tassel.
Vice-Chancellor
Robe: blue silk with silver lace facings, and bearing on each shoulder the Coat of Arms of the University.
Cap: black velvet trencher with silver lace and tassel.
Registrar
Robe: black silk with blue silk facings, and bearing on each shoulder the Coat of Arms of the University.
Cap: black velvet trencher with black silk tassel.
Kaumatua and Kuia
Robe: as for the Cambridge Undergraduate, of the colour University Blue (BCC 90 midnight) bearing on the left front lapel the coat of arms of the University.
Scarf: black lined University blue, bearing on each lapel the Coat of Arms of the University. Formerly black lined University Blue (BCC 90 midnight), bearing on each lapel the coat of arms of the University.
Cap: black velvet trencher with black silk tassel.
Honorary Doctors
of Engineering, Laws, Literature, Science, and of the University of Auckland
Gown: as for the Cambridge Master of Arts but is made of scarlet satin (formerly cloth).(3)
Hood: size and shape as for Cambridge Master of Arts, made wholly of satin of the colour of the appropriate faculty.
Cap: as for full dress Cambridge Doctor of Philosophy (a round black velvet bonnet with a gold cord around the crown ending in tassels).
Doctors
of Engineering, Laws, Literature, Science
Gown: as for the Cambridge Master of Arts but is made of black silk or of scarlet silk or cloth. Doctors may on special occasions wear a scarlet robe.(4)
Hood: size and shape as for Cambridge Master of Arts, made wholly of satin of the colour of the appropriate faculty.
Cap: as for full dress Cambridge Doctor of Philosophy (a round black velvet bonnet with a gold cord around the crown ending in tassels). A black cloth trencher with black tassel was worn to 1973.(5)
Doctors
of Clinical Psychology, Education, Fine Arts, Jurisprudence, Medicine, Music, Pharmacy
Gown: as for the Cambridge Master of Arts with the addition of 50mm wide satin facings in the colour of the appropriate faculty. Doctors may on special occasions wear a scarlet robe.(6)
Hood: size and shape as for Cambridge Master of Arts, made wholly of satin of the colour of the appropriate faculty.
Cap: as for full dress Cambridge Doctor of Philosophy (a round black velvet bonnet with a gold cord around the crown ending in tassels). A black cloth trencher with black tassel was worn to 1973.(7)
Auckland PhD
Doctors
of Philosophy
Gown: as for the Cambridge Master of Arts with the addition of 100mm wide satin facings of scarlet (75mm BCC 209 post office red) edged with gold (25mm BCC 144 gold).(8) Until 1973 only an unadorned Cambridge Master of Arts gown was authorised.(9) Doctors may on special occasions wear a scarlet robe.(10)
Hood: size and shape as for Cambridge Master of Arts, made wholly of scarlet satin.
Cap: as for full dress Cambridge Doctor of Philosophy (a round black velvet bonnet with a gold cord around the crown ending in tassels). A black cloth trencher with black tassel was worn to 1973.(11)
Masters
Gown: as for the Cambridge Master of Arts.
Hood: size and shape as for Cambridge Master of Arts, lined with coloured satin of the appropriate faculty. If more than one master’s degree in faculty then the second will have a 25mm border of dark brown, and subsequent degrees of another colour except taupe or any colour used for any other lining.
Cap: black cloth trencher with a tassel.
Subsequent master's degrees within the one faculty have a 25 mm dark brown border, if more than two degrees, of another colour not taupe.
Bachelors
with Honours
Gown: as for the Cambridge Bachelor of Arts.
Hood: size and shape as for Cambridge Master of Arts, lined with coloured satin and bordered with white fur, and with a 25mm coloured satin edge of satin of the colour of the lining.
Cap: black cloth trencher with a tassel.
Where there is a second bachelor's degree in the one faculty, which requires a first degree, there is a second edging.
Bachelors
Gown: as for the Cambridge Bachelor of Arts.
Hood: size and shape as for Cambridge Master of Arts, lined with coloured satin and bordered with white fur.
Cap: black cloth trencher with a tassel.
Inter-faculty
Bachelors
Gown: as for the Cambridge Bachelor of Arts.
Hood: size and shape as for Cambridge Master of Arts, lined with satin of the colour appropriate to the principal faculty concerned, bordered with white fur, with a 25mm border of the faculty colour. If there are two faculties involved then the border is of the colour of the secondary faculty. If there are more than two, the colour of the border is taupe.
Cap: black cloth trencher with a tassel.
Fellows
Gown: as for the Cambridge Undergraduate, of the colour University Blue (BCC 90 midnight) bearing on the left front lapel the Coat of Arms of the University. No hood or cap shall be worn.
Diplomates
Gown: as for the Cambridge Undergraduate.
Hood: none.
Cap: none.
Stole: (called a scarf) This is of the same black material as the gown, with a band of colour in plain satin as in the existing hoods down the centre edge. The colour is to match the degree cluster most closely associated with the diploma.(12) The lining is to be the same colour as the band. The width of the scarf at the base is 140 mm in total, the black being 100 mm, the colour 40 mm and narrowing behind the neck. A band of the lining colour is to be stepped down from the inside edge to the outside edge of the black material at the base of each side of the scarf.
Undergraduates including holders of Certificates
Gown: none.
Hood: none.
Cap: none.
Colours of the linings of the hoods for the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees are as follows:
Architecture, Property, Planning and Fine Arts
BAS, MAS- lemon (BCC 111 Primrose)
BArch, MArch- formerly lemon (BCC 111 Primrose), since 1996 lemon (BCC 111 Primrose) with two 25mm lemon edgings 25mm apart
MBldgSc- lemon (BCC 111 Primrose) with 25mm dark brown border
BFA, MFA- gold (BCC 144 gold)
BProp, BProp(Hons), MProp- silver grey (BCC 41 violet grey), with 25mm silver grey edging for BProp(Hons)
BPlan, MPlan- light green (BCC 171 chartreuse green)
MPlanPrac- chartreuse green lining with a 25mm dark brown border
BVA- gold with a 25mm jade green border
Arts
BA, BA(Hons), MA- pink (BCC 32 pink), with 25mm pink edging for BA(Hons)
BMusEd- emerald green (BCC 21 green) lining with 25mm white (BCC 1 white) border
BPerfArts – pink with 25 mm dark brown border
MCPA- pink with 25 mm white (BCC 1 white) border
MLitt- pink with 75mm pink (BCC 32 pink) edge
MTESOL - pink with 25 mm light brown border
Business and Economics
BBIM - apricot
BCom, BCom(Hons), MCom- orange (BCC 57 spectrum orange), with 25mm orange edging for BCom(Hons)
MComLaw- orange with 25mm blue (BCC 194 pompadour) border
MIntBus- orange lining with 25mm light brown border
MMgt- orange lining with 25mm tan border
MTasS- orange lining with 25mm dark brown border, formerly orange lining with 25mm white (BCC 1 white) border
MBA- burgundy (BCC 36 claret)
Education
BEd, MEd, BEd(Tchg)- emerald green (BCC 21 green)
Engineering
BE, ME- violet (BCC 179 violet)
MEngSt- dark violet lining with 25mm light brown border
MEMgt- dark violet lining with 25mm dark brown edge
Interfaculty
BScEd- emerald green (BCC 21 green) lining with 25mm dark blue (BCC 87 empire blue) border
BTech- dark blue (BCC 87 empire blue) lining with 25mm taupe border
MEdMgt- emerald green (BCC 21 green) lining with 25mm orange (BCC 57 spectrum orange) border
MHealthMgt- lilac with 25mm orange border
MOR- dark violet with 25mm taupe border
MProfStuds- pink with 25mm taupe border
Laws
LLB, LLM, formerly also MJur- light blue (BCC 194 pompadour), with 25mm light blue edging for LLB(Hons)
LLM(Envir)- light blue (BCC 194 pompadour) lining with 25mm dark brown border
Medical and Health Sciences
BHSc, MHSc, formerly also BHB- lilac (BCC 228 mayflower lilac)
BHB, BHB(Hons), MHB, MMedSc, formerly also MBChB, MAud, MPH- crimson (BCC 240 medici crimson), with crimson eding for BHB(Hons). Mauve to 1973
MBChB- crimson (BCC 240 medici crimson) with two 25mm crimson edgings 25mm apart
BNurs, BNurs(Hons), MNurs- navy blue, with 25mm navy blue eding for BNurs(Hons)
BPharm- grey-green
MPharmPrac- grey-green with 25mm dark brown border
MAud- lilac with 25mm dark brown border
MPH- lilac with 25mm crimson border
Music
BMus, BMus(Perf), BMus(Perf)(Hons), MMus- white (BCC 1 white), with 25mm white edging for BMus(Hons)
Science
BSc, BSc(Hons), MSc- dark blue (BCC 87 empire blue), with 25mm dark blue edging for BSc(Hons)
BOptom- blue-green (BCC 119 honey bird)
MSLTPrac – dark blue with 25mm dark brown border
Theology
BTheol, MTheol- forest green (BCC 26 green)
Colours of the hoods and the facings of the gown for the higher Doctor’s degrees and for the degree of Master of Literature are as follows:
DJur, LLD- light blue (BCC 194 pompadour) [hood only for LLD]
MD- crimson (BCC 240 medici crimson)
DMus- white (BCC 1 white)
DEng- dark violet (BCC 179 violet) [hood only]
DSc- dark blue (BCC 87 empire blue)
DFA- gold (BCC 144 gold)
LittD- pink (BCC 32 pink) [hood only]
EdD- emerald green (BCC 21 green)
DClinPsy- dark blue (BCC 87 empire blue)
DPharm- grey-green
D(UoA)- University blue [hood only]
Scarf colours
Architecture - lemon band and lining
Property - silver grey band and lining
Planning - chartreuse green band and lining
Arts - pink band and lining
Commerce - burgundy band and lining
Education - emerald green band and lining
Engineering - dark violet band and lining
Fine Arts - gold band and lining
Law - light blue band and lining
Music - white band and lining
Medicine - crimson band and lining
Science - dark blue band and lining
Theology - forest green band and lining
(1)Derived in part from the "Conferment of Academic Qualifications and Academic Dress Statute 1999" published in the university Calendar.
(2)Conferment of Academic Qualifications and Academic Dress Statute 1992, rule 8.
(3)Honorary Degrees and Awards Statute 1998.
(4)The regulations of the University of Auckland provide that "the academic dress worn by members of the University at any public ceremony of the University shall be the costume appropriate to their degree, but doctors may on special occasions wear a scarlet gown" (the wording of the University of New Zealand from 1938). Nowhere in the regulations is "scarlet gown" defined, nor is "doctors" expressly limited to the higher doctors only. Clearly it encompasses all doctors on the teaching staff of the university, as well as graduates, as membership of the university is defined by the University of Auckland Act 1961 (s 3) as including the Council, professors emeriti, professors, lecturers, junior lecturers, etc.
Almost all masters and doctors’ robes in this country are of the Cambridge MA pattern. The pattern of scarlet gown anticipated by the University of New Zealand (and the newer Auckland) regulations for doctors is most probably a Cambridge MA robe, but it should properly be a Cambridge doctors’ full dress robe. Otherwise the advantage of the dispensation would be lost.
The university only permitted the PhD a masters’ gown unadorned until 1972, but other doctors had masters’ gowns of black silk, or scarlet silk or cloth (from 1948). Those who had already chosen scarlet gowns would have nothing to gain from the privilege, unless the special gown was of a different pattern. Indeed, the PhD alone would benefit.
Today the senior University of Auckland doctors (LLD, DEng, LittD and DSc), like those of the former University of New Zealand, are required to wear Cambridge MA pattern robes of black silk, scarlet silk or scarlet cloth. Honorary doctors wear scarlet Cambridge MA pattern robes. For other cases, if an individual chooses scarlet cloth (as is common), there would be no need for the doctor to avail him or herself of the special dispensation on any occasion, unless the special robe was of the Cambridge doctors’ full dress pattern. No New Zealand university actually prescribes a doctors’ gown other than in the undress (MA) pattern.
Nor is it clear whether coloured facings should be worn with the special scarlet robe. Since no facings are prescribed for the normal dress of the higher doctoral degrees, it would seem that these should be omitted from the special robe, in the absence of a direction to the contrary. But in that case the only way to distinguish between nine different doctoral degrees would be by the hood, if this should even be worn with the special scarlet robe.
If coloured silk facings were used for the lower doctoral degrees (EdD, DFA, DJur, DMus, and the PhD), then the PhD in special dress would be identical to the Cambridge LittD, in respect of both the robe and hood. To avoid this, the special scarlet robes of the four higher doctorates could be faced with the appropriate faculty colours (LLD light blue, DEng dark violet, LittD pink, and DSc dark blue)- something which is not done on the ordinary robe. The special scarlet robes of the five lower doctorates (including the PhD) would remain unfaced- and indistinguishable. If the conflict with the Cambridge LittD were not considered important, it would be possible to allow facings for all nine doctorates.
(5)The University of Auckland Calendar 1973 (The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1972) The Conferring of Degrees and Academic Dress Regulations.
(6)The EdD, DFA, DJur and DMus normally wear, like the PhD, a black MA robe with coloured facings. A scarlet robe would be a distinct advantage for them.
(7)The University of Auckland Calendar 1973 (The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1972) The Conferring of Degrees and Academic Dress Regulations.
(8)The University of Auckland Calendar 1973 (The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1972) The Conferring of Degrees and Academic Dress Regulations.
(9)The University of Auckland Calendar 1972 (The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1971) The Conferring of Degrees and Academic Dress Regulations, Reg 7 (d).
(10)The PhD at present wears a black cloth robe with scarlet and gold facings. They would be the principal beneficiaries of this "special occasions" rule being properly applied. If the rule is applied as suggested they would have a scarlet cloth Cambridge doctors’ full dress robe with scarlet silk facings.
(11)The University of Auckland Calendar 1973 (The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1972) The Conferring of Degrees and Academic Dress Regulations.
(12)Commerce however is burgundy (BCC 36 claret) rather than orange (BCC 57 spectrum orange).
(13)The University of Auckland Calendar 1973 (The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1972) The Conferring of Degrees and Academic Dress Regulations.