She merges data about each graduate from the Office of the Registrar into templates made for each school on every IU campus. This is when Debbie Satterfield steps in. Diplomas are then shipped to a vendor in Indianapolis that adds a foil IU seal. After the headers are printed, the sheets of four are cut on an automated trimmer. Production of the 8-by-11 diplomas starts on an offset press printing four “Indiana University” headers to a sheet. While graduates of IU’s professional schools receive a 16-by-20-inch diploma, all other IU graduates receive an 8½-by-11-inch diploma, whether it’s their first bachelor’s degree or third Ph.D. The update not only saves the university money, it ensures more accuracy and a quicker delivery of diplomas to students. Blanton and Neil Hugentober, now the director of Document Services, were part of the team that proposed updating the process, which at the time required every graduate’s name to be hand-keyed instead of automated.

IU has been printing diplomas in-house with Document Services for nearly a decade. Students work hard for these, and they deserve to have them be as close to perfect as possible.” “Everyone from our prepress department, our IT manager, the press operators and our couriers – we all take a great pride in producing these documents. “President McRobbie really emphasizes the importance of the quality of our diplomas, and so does the entire staff at Document Services,” said Judy Blanton, digital content manager for Document Services. That’s because the team at IU Document Services, which prints more than 25,000 IU diplomas every year, prioritizes preserving the integrity of each one given at IU campuses across the state. Former IU President Herman B Wells signs diplomas in January 1950.

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