Wear it with Honors
If you have excelled academically during your undegraduate career, IUPUI has many ways to recognize your accomplishments High-achieving undergraduates may recive the following honor cords.
Fourragères and Medallions
If you are graduating with Distinction, High Distinction, or Highest Distinction, you are entitled to wear fourragères: cream and crimson cords for IU graduates, black and gold for Purdue graduates. The fourragères are provided by the university as a gift to you.
Fourragères should be worn pinned to the left shoulder of your gown. Pin the fourragères halfway between the shoulder seam and the collar. The loop will drape over the outside of the sleeve with two cords hanging in front and two in the back of the sleeve. Your arm should not go through the loop.
Students who are graduating with honors may wear gold medallions. The requirements for graduating with honors are different for each school, and honors are awarded by a vote of faculty members.
Additionally, graduates who have been admitted to any of the nationally recognized honor societies below may wear the appropriate cords.
Honor Society Cords
Many honors organizations recognize outstanding achievement in service, philanthropy, and scholarship. IUPUI is proud of all students who fulfill the membership requirements in these societies.
On Commencement day, the university singles out the honor societies that emphasize academic achievement. Graduates who have been admitted to any of the nationally recognized honor societies may wear the appropriate cords at Commencement.
Recognized Honor Societies
- Alpha Chi
- Alpha Epsilon Delta
- Alpha Kappa Delta
- Alpha Lambda Delta
- Alpha Phi Sigma
- Alpha Psi Omega
- Alpha Sigma Lambda
- Beta Alpha Psi
- Beta Beta Beta
- Beta Gamma Sigma
- Beta Phi Mu
- Chi Alpha Sigma
- Chi Sigma Iota
- Delta Mu Delta
- Eta Sigma Gamma
- Eta Sigma Phi
- Gamma Theta Upsilon
- Gamma Sigma Alpha
- Golden Key International Honor Society
- Kappa Delta Pi
- Kappa Omicron Nu
- Kappa Tau Alpha
- Lambda Beta
- Lambda Nu
- Lambda Pi Eta
- Mortarboard National College Senior Honor Society
- Mu Kappa Tau
- National Society of Collegiate Scholars
- National Society of Leadership and Success
- Nu Lambda Mu
- Omega Chi Epsilon
- Omega Rho
- Omicron Delta Epsilon
- Omicron Kappa Upsilon
- Phi Alpha
- Phi Alpha Theta
- Phi Beta Delta
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Phi Eta Sigma
- Phi Kappa Phi
- Phi Sigma
- Phi Sigma Iota
- Phi Sigma Tau
- Phi Sigma Theta
- Phi Theta Kappa
- Phi Upsilon Omicron
- Pi Alpha Alpha
- Pi Delta Phi
- Pi Gamma Mu
- Pi Kappa Lambda
- Pi Lambda Theta
- Pi Mu Epsilon
- Pi Omega Pi
- Pi Sigma Alpha
- Pi Tau Sigma
- Pi Theta Epsilon
- Psi Chi