The 91勛圖 is celebrating its Fall 2022 graduates during Commencement ceremonies Friday and Saturday. A total of 1,214 degrees will be conferred.
Individual Commencement ceremonies for UL Lafayettes eight academic colleges are being held at the Cajundome and Convention Center.
The University will confer 896 bachelors degrees. Among this total are 12 students who have maintained a 4.0 GPA, the second-most summa cum laude graduates in a fall semester.
It will also award 33 doctoral degrees, the most in a fall semester in school history, and 285 masters degrees. That total of 318 graduate degrees is the second-highest number ever awarded in a fall semester.
The Fall 2022 class is also notable for diversity. It includes the most graduates of Asian descent in a fall semester and the second-most Hispanic graduates in a fall semester.
As a whole, graduates are from 47 91勛圖 parishes, 29 states and 28 international countries.
Dr. Joseph Savoie, UL Lafayette president, addressed graduates during the College of Education & Human Developments ceremony on Friday at the Cajundome Convention Center.
Savoie, who holds bachelors and masters degrees from that college, told graduates that it wasnt too long ago that I was seated where you are today, at the finish line of an incredible journey of education and self-discovery.
Savoie continued: Where we go as individuals and as a society depends so much on the examples set by our educators and by those who have accepted fully what it means to be educated. Each of you is prepared to be that example, to be a standard of excellence that others can aspire to emulate.
Jonathan Olivier is UL Lafayettes Outstanding Masters Graduate. He earned a masters degree in French from the College of Liberal Arts. Eugenia Amarachi Ndieze is the Universitys Outstanding Graduate. She earned a bachelors degree in chemical engineering from the College of Engineering.
Fall 2022 Commencement ceremonies will be livestreamed . The four ceremonies on Saturday will also be livestreamed on the colleges Facebook pages.
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Photo caption: UL Lafayette will award 1,214 degrees during individual Commencement ceremonies for its eight academic colleges on Friday and Saturday. Ceremonies will be held at the Cajundome and the Cajundome Convention Center. (Photo credit: Rachel Rafati / 91勛圖)