Cap Decorating Guidelines

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Celebrate Graduation Your Way!

Decorated caps can be a great memento and way to show your Wolverine spirit. Decorated caps can assist family members in spotting graduates in the crowd. The mortarboard’s flat surface is a perfect canvas to display appropriate personal expressions with ceremonial attire.

UVU Graduation hat with tassel on top of gaduation robes with sashes on a table.

What is appropriate?

  • Graduation year
  • Achievements and awards
  • Enthusiastic, positive, and inspiring quotes and goals
  • Thank you's to family, friends, and teachers who impacted your education
  • Favorite activities while attending UVU (clubs, sports, etc.)

What is NOT permitted?

  • Three-dimensional objects. Decorations should be two-dimensional and not have lights or noise or drape over the sides of the cap.
  • Any solicitations, advertisements, or promotions of a business
  • Reference anything that could present an unacceptable risk of liability or present inherent danger:
  • Products used to injure or kill
  • Firearms, weapons, and explosives
  • Inhibiting consumables; alcohol, drug substances, smoking, tobacco, and paraphernalia.
  • Reference anything that jeopardizes the university’s position of neutrality as a state entity:
  • Religious affiliation, candidates, and issues
  • Political affiliation, candidates, and issues
  • Reference anything that incites or produces imminent lawless, illegal, seditious, or illicit behavior and activities; or creates a hostile environment:
  • Obscene, profane, vulgar, lewd, demeaning, degrading, defaming, or discriminatory content
  • Statements impugning other universities
  • Gambling and lottery related (currently illegal within the state of Utah)
  • Sexually suggestive or explicit (acts, language, and references third-party organizations)
  • Drug paraphernalia related substances
  • Content containing another entity's trademark
  • Content promoting or inciting the armed resistance of rebellion against an established authority of the nation, state, city, or campus

Note: Utah Valley University reserves its right to pull and confiscate any unauthorized graduation regalia.

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