Slideshow: Best mortarboards at Commencement

By Rick Vacek

Photos by Ralph Freso
GCU News Bureau

The extra Commencement ceremonies this fall at Grand Canyon University meant more opportunities for creative – and often funny – messages and artwork on mortarboards. Here's a GCU Magazine story on why the makeup Commencements were so important to graduates.

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GCU Magazine

August 2026

Bible Verse

"I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is no savior. I have revealed and saved and proclaimed — I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses," declares the Lord, "that I am God." (Isaiah 43:11-12)

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