The Santa Maria Valley celebrated the graduates from the Class of 2025 in the month of June. Read our coverage and see photos ...

A black ring fits inside the mortar board and then attaches to a headband so that the cap stays securely fixed atop the graduate’s head. “You don’t need 8,000 bobby pins to try to hold it in place,” ...

For undergraduates, the tassel is worn on the right side of the mortar board until the degree is awarded, at which time it is moved to the left. This will be done together at the instruction of the ...

Mortar Board provides opportunities for continued leadership development; promotes service to colleges and universities; and encourages lifelong contributions to the global community. UW chapter ...

The ceremony has been a university tradition since the early 1900s. University honor groups Omicron Delta Kappa, Mortar Board, Blue Key National Honor Society and Anderson Society will induct members.

Details: 1) He wears a black gown with a traditional mortar board. 2) The Carnegie Mellon University Tartan, first commissioned in 1967 for academic hoods, ... Details: 1) Undergraduates wear black ...

Parker Slawson, of Maryville, a History and Criminal Justice major at the University of Mississippi, was among 58 rising seniors to join the Tassels Chapter of Mortar Board. Mortar Board ...

Fellow speaker Marco Scott urged graduates to not shrink away from opportunities to seize greatness. Peter Sanchez had the honor of leading his fellow Eagles in turning their mortar board tassels ...

Superintendent Shelby Davidson and graduate Mason Bohannan complete the custom of switching the tassel to indicate ... (Monitor photo by John Arbter) Mortar boards fly as the 2024 class of Alba ...

Graduation ceremonies are rife with strange and antiquated customs, symbolic items and traditions such as the mortar board hats and tassels (whose roots go back to 11th century ecclesiastical caps) ...