Wearing Other People's Graduation Regalia

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by als463

If you don't mind me asking (this goes for anyone who knows about Ph.D.s or any other graduate programs) if you already hold a Master's degree and have honor cords from both undergrad and graduate school, when you finish your second Master's degree, Ph.D., or law degree, do you wear any of the stuff from your prior graduations such as hoods and cords? I was thinking about this the other day.

If the hoods and cords just represent the previous degrees, NO.

If the hoods and cords represent some affiliation or honor that you have held throughout your graduate degrees, and it is the procedure to wear them for every graduate commencement, PERHAPS.

[DrPhil]

I now see why I didn't know that some schools forbid certain graduation regalia. A few people ignore the regulations and do it anyway. LOL.

[agzg]

Why would one wear multiple hoods? I think they'd die of heat stroke or something.

[als463]

Originally Posted by agzg

Why would one wear multiple hoods? I think they'd die of heat stroke or something.

No, I was just asking because I wasn't sure if you could do such a thing. So, then (for DrPhil and anyone else who knows) if I graduate with another graduate degree, I can't even wear my honor cords such as my Kappa Delta Pi honor cord for education (since I am still a member and faithfully pay my membership dues)?

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by agzg

Why would one wear multiple hoods? I think they'd die of heat stroke or something.

I don't think they would. LOL.

I have never heard of people wearing hoods or cords from previous graduate degrees. But, that may happen somehow, somewhere, and some reason.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by als463

No, I was just asking because I wasn't sure if you could do such a thing. So, then (for DrPhil and anyone else who knows) if I graduate with another graduate degree, I can't even wear my honor cords such as my Kappa Delta Pi honor cord for education (since I am still a member and faithfully pay my membership dues)?

Check with KDPi? Possibly depends on what your future degree is in and whether your grades remain high.

[littleowl33]

I can't imagine someone perping NHS or Cum Laude (the only things you can get cords for at my HS) at the school I graduated from. My class was only about 40 people so if anyone had tried that everyone would know, and I imagine someone would make them take them off.

Originally Posted by honeychile

In all of my graduation pictures, I'm easy to find - I was seated next to the Master of Thrift who wouldn't get a cap and gown and wore a suit.

I seriously lol'd at "Master of Thrift". Although I don't think I'll have the same issue since we're not allowed to walk if we're not wearing the cap, gown and stole the University sells. I understand the need for uniformity, but it's such a racket - the stuff is really cheap quality and you end up spending close to $100 for the minimum required package.

On a related note - I'm graduating next week and I'm going to have the University stole and some cords, so I thought wearing a Kappa stole/cords would be overkill. I really want to graduate with something Kappa on me, though, so I was thinking of wearing my badge on the stole or gown. Has anyone else done this?

[agzg]

Originally Posted by littleowl33

On a related note - I'm graduating next week and I'm going to have the University stole and some cords, so I thought wearing a Kappa stole/cords would be overkill. I really want to graduate with something Kappa on me, though, so I was thinking of wearing my badge on the stole or gown. Has anyone else done this?

I wore my badge on my dress inside my gown (in case I took the gown off and accidentally lost my badge) but a fair amount of my sisters wore it on the gown itself, especially if they didn't have a stole or cords for Alpha Gam.

I think I've already cemented myself in this tread as the one who has no fun. I didn't decorate my cap, either.

[carnation]

You don't wear multiple hoods. If you have your doctorate, believe me--one velvet-lined, knee-length hood is enough and you would die in two even if it's forty degrees inside.

What you're supposed to do when you get advanced degrees: you wear the hood and lining colors of the school of your last degree. My doctoral hood has an edge of royal blue velvet that matches my tassel and the 3 velvet stripes on my sleeves because royal blue is the color of a Ph.D. (An Ed.D. has aqua, an M.D. has green.)Then the satin hood lining is maroon and white for Mississippi State. If you've been in the academic world for awhile, you can often identify the degrees and schools of many faculty members at a graduation.

What I wonder is which hood lining colors are worn by all those people who've been getting online degrees from non-brick and mortar schools.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by carnation

What I wonder is which hood lining colors are worn by all those people who've been getting online degrees from non-brick and mortar schools.

I think most of those schools have colors. I think University of Phoenix is maroon or red and white, Kaplan is blue and white, Strayer is black and red or something similar, Ashford University is Purple and Yellow, Capella is red and white.

Whatever colors appear on the websites of such universities, basically.

I just looked at my hood for my bachelor's though and it looks like it's maroon and not purple - maybe for Gannon? There's a lot more maroon than gold. Not sure.

I didn't get a hood for my master's since I didn't attend the ceremony - it looks like it should be aquamarine in color.

ETA: after further reading, the velvet part is gold colored - social sciences - I guess that fits. I thought the gold was for Gannon, too. It's pretty obvious that I didn't seem to care much about graduation or academic dress, hehe.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by carnation

You don't wear multiple hoods. If you have your doctorate, believe me--one velvet-lined, knee-length hood is enough and you would die in two even if it's forty degrees inside.

What you're supposed to do when you get advanced degrees: you wear the hood and lining colors of the school of your last degree. My doctoral hood has an edge of royal blue velvet that matches my tassel and the 3 velvet stripes on my sleeves because royal blue is the color of a Ph.D. (An Ed.D. has aqua, an M.D. has green.)Then the satin hood lining is maroon and white for Mississippi State. If you've been in the academic world for awhile, you can often identify the degrees and schools of many faculty members at a graduation.

What I wonder is which hood lining colors are worn by all those people who've been getting online degrees from non-brick and mortar schools.

Hm they probably have some sort of school colors.

My favorite variation on hats is the Tudor bonnet although I enjoy the slightly pointed tams too. Even though their meaning wasn't immediately apparent to us as graduating students, they certainly set the profs apart and made us google them later

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Hm they probably have some sort of school colors.

My favorite variation on hats is the Tudor bonnet although I enjoy the slightly pointed tams too. Even though their meaning wasn't immediately apparent to us as graduating students, they certainly set the profs apart and made us google them later

We got to vote as a graduating class in med school whether we wanted the standard mortar board or the tudor bonnet. The class before us wore the tudor bonnet, but I was beyond grateful that we chose the mortar board!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

We got to vote as a graduating class in med school whether we wanted the standard mortar board or the tudor bonnet. The class before us wore the tudor bonnet, but I was beyond grateful that we chose the mortar board!

Nooooo you should have had the bonnet!

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Nooooo you should have had the bonnet!

I couldn't believe the class before me chose to wear them! They looked so silly, but I thought that many of them were rather pretentious.

[UGAalum94]

Carnation,

What you described in the OP isn't really surprising to me, but I haven't noticed it yet myself. We do say that the only regalia items allowed at graduation are given out by the school at honors night or through pre-approved clubs, like a medal for Beta, etc.

I'm not sure what gets enforced however because once the graduating class is a certain size, it gets kind of unmanageable. We have a hard enough time with the clearly stated aspects of dress code for the graduates like guys wearing white shirts rather than pink or whatever. While I personally wouldn't care if they had on different colored shirts, they've (and their homeroom teachers) been thoroughly briefed on what's required in advance and I've witnessed a couple administrative showdowns with kids who just expected that the rules didn't apply to them.

I think we'd go to no regalia and just notations in the program before we went to more graduation night policing of what the kids are wearing.

Drolefille, it's a pleasure to see you posting frequently again.