![]() John Kozar, Director, Chef John Folse Culinary Instituteĭr. John Doucet, Dean, College of Sciences and Technology Raquel Engolio, Dean, College of Nursingĭr. Jean Donegan, Dean, College of Liberal Artsĭr. Scot Rademaker, Dean, College of Education and Behavioral Sciences Marilyn Macik-Frey, Dean, College of Business Administrationĭr. Michele Caruso, Vice President for Student Affairsĭr. Terry Braud, Vice President, Finance and Administrationĭr. Sue Westbrook, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Louisiana State Representative for District 54, Co-founder of 2nd Wind Marine, LLCĭr. Marie, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Choral ActivitiesĢ1st Judicial District Court, State of Louisiana Nicholls State University Faculty Ensembleĭr. It is faced with a color indicating the subject of specialization.Ī partial list of colors associated with the various disciplines follows:īusiness Administration – Drab(Pale Taupe) The hood is lined with the color of the college or university granting the degree. The bachelor’s hood is about three feet long, and that of the master’s degree is slightly longer, while the doctoral hood is long and colorful with broad panels. Hoods vary in length according to the specific degree. The most distinctive feature of American academic dress is the hood, which indicates by its color and design the wearer’s degree and the institution that conferred the degree. Holders of the doctorate may wear tassels of gold thread. Tassels, usually black, are worn over the left front quarter of the cap. The usual cap, proper for all degrees, is the black mortarboard, although some colleges use the beret. The velvet on the doctor’s robe may be black, or it may be the color which symbolizes the degree held. The doctor’s robe has long, full sleeves, velvet facing on the front and at the neck, and three velvet bars across each of the sleeves. The master’s is black with oblong sleeves which are closed the arm comes through a slit in the sleeve. The associate’s and bachelor’s robes are black with long pointed sleeves. In the United States, black is the traditional color for academic gowns, although some institutions authorize holders of their doctorates to wear the colors of the institution. This code of dress has become standard for most American colleges and universities. However, a uniform system was adopted by most institutions of higher learning near the end of the 19th century when an intercollegiate commission met in New York. The use of academic dress in the United States has been continuous since colonial days. These early scholars selected the hood as an article of apparel to distinguish the various university degrees by color, trimming, or binding. Robes were adopted from both ecclesiastical and civilian sources. ![]() Most of the scholars were clerics in holy orders, and they wore cloaks to which were attached hoods that could be pulled up to cover their tonsured heads. The distinctive dress associated with academic processions and convocations dates from the Middle Ages when students of the oldest European and English universities wore woolen and fur garments for warmth in drafty stone buildings. ![]() Graduates, as you move forward with your chosen career or continue in your studies and build your lives, know that we are with you. We are not focused on endings today but on new beginnings. Each of you have benefited from a support network that has provided guidance, love, laughter, and encouragement. Knowing that you did not get to this moment on your own, I want to thank your parents, spouses and partners, children, extended family members, friends, faculty, staff members, and community partners who have played a significant role in your journey. I am confident that you possess the determination, skills, values and compassion to achieve anything.Īgain, I extend my heartfelt congratulations to all of you. I hope the challenges of the past few years will help us all develop a profound sense of compassion for others, a resilience in the face of adversity, and resolve to achieve fuller careers and lives of meaning and purpose. Throughout your time as Colonels, you have proved again and again that you possess the grit and determination to achieve success and reach your goals. ![]() Now you can look forward to a vast array of opportunities spread out before you as you embark on the next chapter of your lives. You have faced and overcome many challenges during your college years. I join your families and friends who celebrate this accomplishment and take great pride in how far you have come. Earning a university degree represents one of the significant milestones in life and marks your transition from being college students to Nicholls alumni. It is my great pleasure to congratulate you, the Nicholls State University Graduating Class of 2023. ![]()
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