Category: College
Has an extraterrestrial invaded your home this May? When college-age sons and daughters come back home and re-feather your empty nest to be with you for the summer, it is a readjustment for everyone in the household. Each family must deal with its new challenges individually, but one reality is certain: no matter where the recent graduates eventually hang their hats, earning that sheepskin elevates degree holders in everyone’s eyes.
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Stepping reverently to the cadence of Pomp and Circumstance? You’re one of millions donning cap and gown and graduating from a high school, college, or university. If it’s an institution of higher learning and you’re singular, you’re morphing from matriculant to alumna (female) or alumnus (male). If you’re plural, you’re collectively alumnae (female) or alumni (male or female graduates). For those etymology inquirers, all four “alum” words derive from Latin’s alere meaning “nourish.”
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Along with graduation come traditions and diplomas. Along with diplomas (and diploma frames) come a distinct and formal identifier of the school…its seal. Traditionally, college diplomas have a school seal, very often with a Latin motto, affixed to it.
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By Dawn Handschuh
One of the first of many milestones in a young person's life, college graduation is a rite of passage marked by numerous traditions, many of them centuries old. While graduates at nearly every college and university will don a a cap and gown—itself a centuries old tradition dating back to the 12th century—many of today’s institutions of learning have adopted their own traditions, steeped in symbolism and faithfully repeated year after year.
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While most diplomas and certification documents today are printed on archival paper produced from treated pulp or rag (cotton), if you have a diplomas that is many years old, it may well be made with sheepskin or parchment. View the tips for preserving and framing a sheepskin diploma!
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Our fifth annual Frame My Future Scholarship Contest received over 9,000 entries! View our 37 Honorable Mentions. Congratulations to all of the Honorable Mentions for your inspiring entry. View the last part of the Honorable Mentions.
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As Earth Day is celebrated on April 22, you’re going to want to know how the end of the 13th annual RecycleMania tournament concluded on March 30. There were 523 colleges and universities competing for eight weeks to increase recycling participation by students and staff and to increase awareness about waste reduction programs on campus. During the tournament, colleges and universities collected 90.3 million pounds of recyclables materials!
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Our fifth annual Frame My Future Scholarship Contest received over 9,000 entries! View our 37 Honorable Mentions. Congratulations to all the Honorable Mentions for your inspiring entry. View more Honorable Mentions in part three.
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Part Two of Four
Our fifth annual Frame My Future Scholarship Contest received over 9,000 entries! View our 37 Honorable Mentions. Congratulations to all the Honorable Mentions for your inspiring entry. View more Honorable Mentions in part two.
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Part One of Four
Our fifth annual Frame My Future Scholarship Contest had over 9,000 entries! View our 37 Honorable Mentions. Congratulations to the 37 Honorable Mentions for your inspiring entry. View the first 10 Honorable Mentions on part one.
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