Diploma Generator | Institute for Peripatetic Studies

Complete the form below to generate your Licentiate of Peripatetic Studies diploma and its accompanying letter of conferral. Both documents will be produced together and may be printed or saved as a PDF through your browser's native print dialog. The diploma prints in landscape orientation; the letter in portrait. No information is stored or transmitted.

Institute for Peripatetic Studies

Collegium Itinerantium

Be it known to all persons of learning and goodwill

The Institute for Peripatetic Studies, Collegium Itinerantium, by the authority vested in its Founding Director, and in recognition of engagement with the world through movement, observation, and the honest pursuit of place-based knowledge, does hereby confer upon

Your Name

the degree of

Licentiate of Peripatetic Studies

(L.P.S.)

with all the rights, privileges, and wandering liberties pertaining thereunto, including but not limited to the taking of unexpected detours, the consulting of unreasonably large maps, and the earnest discussion of landscapes with anyone who will listen.

Institute for Peripatetic Studies

Collegium Itinerantium

Solvitur Ambulando

January 1, 2026

Dear [Recipient],

It is with due ceremony and genuine satisfaction that I write to confirm that the Institute for Peripatetic Studies has this day conferred upon [Recipient] the degree of Licentiate of Peripatetic Studies (L.P.S.).

This distinction is awarded in recognition of your engagement with the world through movement, observation, and the pursuit of place-based knowledge. The Institute takes the view that such engagement — wherever it has led you, however circuitously, and regardless of whether you arrived where you intended — constitutes a meaningful contribution to the peripatetic tradition.

Please receive your diploma and this letter as formal documentation of the distinction conferred. The Institute encourages you to display them, discuss them freely, and continue the ambulatory inquiry that earned them. The path ahead remains, as always, the more interesting direction.

The Institute notes, for completeness, that the Licentiate of Peripatetic Studies is a self-conferred, non-accredited ceremonial distinction. It does not qualify the holder for graduate study, professional licensure, or employment. It does qualify the holder for an enhanced sense of intellectual purpose when walking somewhere interesting, and the Institute considers this the more valuable endowment.

Yours sincerely,

Bryan Johns

Founding Director

Doctor of Peripatetic Studies

Institute for Peripatetic Studies