Ordering your cap and gown If you have applied to graduate in June 2008 and will have the necessary number of credits by the end of the Spring 2008 semester, you may order your cap and gown from any of the college bookstores: CCBC Catonsville: K Building, first floor, 410-455-4320 CCBC Dundalk: K Building, first floor, 410-285-9670 CCBC Essex: B Building, first floor, 410-780-6561 The cost of the cap and gown is covered in the graduation application fee. Orders will be taken Feb. 25 through Friday, April 4. Graduates wishing to purchase additional tassels may do so at the bookstore when placing their cap and gown orders. Additional tassels cost $3.55 each. Graduates with an overall grade point average of 3.40 or greater are eligible to wear gold honor tassels as part of their graduation regalia. The overall grade point average is determined by computing cumulative course work from CCBC. Wearing the academic regalia To the associate degree candidate, perhaps the most important element of academic regalia is the tassel. Traditionally, it is worn on the right side of the mortarboard until the president, during the ceremony, formally confers degrees upon the recipients. The tassel is then moved from the right side to the left side of the mortarboard. This act symbolizes each recipient's new and well-earned status.   Corsages or other adornments should not be worn on the regalia, nor should regalia be altered or modified in any way. Appropriate clothing should be worn beneath the regalia. Those who are not dressed properly will be asked to leave the assembly area and will not be permitted to participate.