Nova PhDs

A forum for grads of Villanova's Philosophy PhD program

Cap and Gown
It's of course that time of the year. Unfortunately, I will not be able to do attend graduation at AU this year (my first) since my sister is graduating the very same day from Bryn Mawr. But I hae been thinking about this issue for a while. I really wish we had a proper cap and gown for our phd. Being the only doctoral program at Nova, we don't have our own school's colors, or gown. Other schools do. The generic cap and gown we got from Nova for graduation had one major virtue: it was free. But it is alrady falling apart.

Is there anyway we could start a tradition of cap and gowns? I was thinking about buying a typical philosophy phd online — with the blue stripes — to have for good, but it'd be nice to have a nova one. Any thoughts?

(By the way, Why is there a comment period? Is there dairy in comment for them to expire?)