<p>How have you framed your/your childrens’ college degrees/diplomas?</p>
<p>No, they are still in the envelopes in which they were sent, in our house and it has been a few years. The kids couldn’t care less, never asked to see them.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine where they would hang. What are you picturing?</p>
<p>Yes. We bought a diploma frame through the school bookstore–looks great!</p>
<p>I’ve got a frame for my college diploma. It has my tassel hanging on one side and the medal they gave us for getting honors on the other. I have it hanging in my bedroom at home for now, and I really like seeing it the few times I drop by home a year.</p>
<p>Like elle, I purchase diploma frame through the college bookstore (the mat boards are acid free to prevent fading/discoloration). </p>
<p>I haven’t hung it anywhere yet, but yes, it still looks great. You should frame the diploma if for no other reason but to prevent it from becoming discolored, even if it is printed on acid fee/archival paper (lesson learned from looking at my own ug degree, which is in my junk draw).</p>
<p>Purchased a frame for DS’s diploma at his college bookstore. Diploma arrived this summer. Rice gives the option of real sheepskin diplomas, which he took, and needs to be professionally framed. Still sitting in the tube.</p>
<p>No frame…hs diplomas and the college diploma for first child are in the leather binders they came in. No plan to change that. ALL of the parent diplomas are the same.</p>
<p>The only people I can think of who sometimes display college diplomas are doctors and lawyers who may have them hanging in their offices along with their graduate degrees. I’d never hang one in my home. Seems a little pretentious to me.</p>
<p>No, they are still in the envelopes in which they were sent, in our house and it has been a few years. The kids couldn’t care less, never asked to see them.</p>
<p>ditto.</p>
<p>I didn’t have mine framed until I graduated from law school at which time I had college, law school, various admission to the bar certificates framed to hang in my office. Clients like to see them.</p>
<p>Since I stopped practicing, they’re in a box that I haul from house to house. I feel weird throwing them out but I don’t know what to do with them. Any suggestions??</p>
<p>My in-laws attended the same university as my husband. After the death of his father my husband asked if he might have his Dad’s diploma. My mil said yes, but she had no idea where it was. I was helping her go through some family papers and found fil and mil’s diplomas - rolled up with rubber bands around them. They both graduated from college during WWII!!</p>
<p>I am picking up DD’s diploma today from the framer. It’s sheepskin, so needs to be handled by a framer who has experience with the wetting and stretching process. This was our graduation present to her - and I KNOW she wouldn’t have had it done herself! (It probably would have ended up with a rubberband around it somewhere, too.) We’re going to hang it in her room (her ex-room?). Hubby and I have our yellowed diploma’s hanging in our closet, and they are not beautiful to look at. We wish we had treated them properly and framed them when we got them - instead of leaving them in acid-rich cardboard for so long. In DD’s case, she picked a really cool wild wood frame and added some color in the mat board. It was not cheap, but the results will look good.</p>
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<p>Agreed, unless you are in a biz where diploma hanging is expected. D would never hang her diploma in HER abode, perhaps. But I am hanging that diploma in MY house! That diploma represents a lot of hard work and sacrifice by her parents.</p>
<p>How do you people that feel displaying an undergrad diploma compares to displaying a non-medical/law post-undergrad degree is? Would you expect a PhD to have their diploma hanging on a wall somewhere in their home or office?</p>
<p>My research mentor has his undergrad and grad degrees in his office.</p>
<p>Not sure if my PhD hubby could lay his hands on his diploma. I don’t know if I could lay my hands on my law degree. I may have had it framed (to hang in the office). I know I did frame the license to practice law. It’s in a box in the garage somewhere–I don’t practice anymore.</p>
<p>Shouldn’t our kids be responsible for framing or not framing their diplomas?</p>
<p>I didn’t bother framing mine until I was a college professor because having one’s academic credentials visible seemed important in that kind of milieu. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have bothered.</p>
<p>When my daughter’s diploma arrived in the mail, there was an order form for some company that would frame them… she asked me to take care of it. I remember when my H received his Ph.D., it was my mom that insisted we go to a frame shop and have it matted and framed.</p>
<p>We had D’s diploma framed as a graduation present. The $140 for the frame was a little expensive for a poor college student.</p>