At the end of each academic year, all graduating College Honors Program participants are invited to a reception recognizing their accomplishments. At this ceremony, the graduates are recognized with the presentation of a gold medallion attached to a blue and white ribbon that participants traditionally wear around their necks and over their graduation gowns at Commencement. The front of the three inch medallion is engraved with the college’s lamp of learning and inscribed with the college’s mission statement of “Intellect, Character, Faith."