Possible Clues:

• Old document, Reform Act (anagram)
• Vena cerebri ___ (brain vein)
• Almost summa, on a diploma
• __ cum laude (honor below ''summa'')
• Diploma word meaning "great"
• Great, on some diplomas
• Ars ___ (anagram of 'anagrams,' aptly)
• The first recognition in English law that subjects of the crown had rights
• Agreement commemorated in 2015 revised as act (anagram)
• Word on a distinguished grad's diploma