Undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees will be conferred during the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ’s Summer 2016 Commencement on Aug. 5.
The ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. in the Cajundome Convention Center exhibit hall adjacent to the Cajundome. All graduates are required to attend and participate in full regalia.
Commencement ceremonies are now held three times each year: in the fall, spring and summer.
In 2014, the University held its first summer ceremony since 1949. Summer Commencement was reintroduced to give graduating seniors an opportunity to participate in a ceremony without having to wait until the end of the fall semester.
The summer ceremony is much smaller than Commencements held in the fall and spring. About 275 degrees will be conferred during Summer 2016 Commencement. During Spring 2016 Commencement ceremonies, by comparison, 1,676 degrees were conferred.
Dr. John Tetnowski, a professor in the College of Liberal Arts at Â鶹AV, will be the Summer 2016 Commencement speaker. He received the University’s 2016 Distinguished Professor Award, which was presented by the Â鶹AV Foundation, and is the Ben Blanco/BORSF Endowed Professor in Communicative Disorders. He is also the graduate coordinator for the University’s doctoral program in Applied Language and Speech Sciences.
Learn more about at commencement.louisiana.edu