Nice Degree, but Your Diploma Gets an 'F' for Spelling
Alec Williams was thrilled to get his diploma this summer after 4½ years at Colorado Mesa University. This month, he spotted one problem: It wasn’t conferred by the school’s board of trustees. His diploma was signed, the text noted in an Old English font, by the chair of Mesa’s “Coard of Trustees.” He notified Mesa, which found that the error appeared in diplomas going back six years and is offering corrected versions to graduates.
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At Ontario High School near Los Angeles, the principal, a board member and assistant superintendent were on stage handing out diplomas to graduates when someone found a misprint on half of the 550 red covers in 2016. “Ontario High Shcool,” they read.
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It was already too late for Desert View High School last year when the registrar on graduation night noticed there was a typo on the diplomas, most of which had already been handed out, says a spokesman for the school’s Tucson, Ariz., district. The diplomas located it in “Tuscon.”
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Errors at schools that pride themselves on teaching writing skills are most cringeworthy, graduates say. Some honors-program graduates from Northwestern University’s journalism school needed reprints in 2014 because their diplomas listed the school’s full name as Medill School of Journalism, Media, Itegrated Marketing Communications, instead of “Integrated.”
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New grads often turn to social media to mock their alma maters’ graduation goofs. “Get it together KSU,” Sarah Stovall wrote on Instagram in 2013 after that school provided a document saying she graduated from Kennesaw State University with a bachelor’s degree in “Business Admininistration.”
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Amanda Kent posted a photo of her University of Texas at Arlington diploma on Twitter in June 2015, saying she had apparently time-traveled. Her degree was conferred in “two thousand and forty-five.”
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Publix Censors Teen’s ‘Summa Cum Laude’ Graduation Cake
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/publix-censors-teens-summa-cum-laude-graduation-cake_us_5b042efbe4b003dc7e46a54a
A cake celebrating a South Carolina teen’s high school graduation turned into a not-so-sweet surprise when a Publix supermarket censored the inscription “summa cum laude.”
The grad’s mom, Cara Koscinski, said she ordered a cake online from her local Publix for a graduation party for her 18-year-old son, Jacob. The store allows customers to customize cake orders with a personalized inscription.
Koscinski said she ordered a cake the the words: “Congrats Jacob! Summa Cum Laude Class of 2018.”
Instead, supermarket bakers wrote: “Congrats Jacob! Summa - - - Laude Class of 2018.”
The Washington Post, which did a deeper dive on the Publix website, reported that the online box where customers enter cake inscriptions is extremely temperamental, and filters “profane/special characters.” “Cum,” despite its use as a preposition meaning “with” in the Latin phrase summa cum laude ― “with the highest distinction” ― was rendered profane.
