Constitution Day, September 17, 2024

Please make plans to attend one or more of UL's Constitution Day events: the public reading of the Constitution, the Naturalization Ceremony, and the Panel Discussion.

There will be a public reading of the US Constitution at 9:00 a.m. in the area between Judice-Rickels and V.L. Wharton Halls. UL students and members of the public read short excerpts of the Constitution out loud in procession and a voter registration table sponsored by the League of Women Voters will be on site.

At 11:00 a.m. will be a Naturalization Ceremony in the Edith Garland Dupré Library’s Central Hall Lobby on the first floor. New citizens take the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America.

Lastly, at 2:00 p.m., there will be a Panel Discussion in the Teche Room at the Student Union.

The panel discussion titled “Louisiana House Bill 71 and the US Constitution,” has a variety of great speakers. The faculty members are from the Department of History, Geography, and Philosophy: Dr. Rich Frankel, Dr. Shawn Thibodeaux, Dr. Abbass Braham, and Ms. Kathleen Schott Espinoza and special guest Dr. M. Christian Green, Senior Fellow at Emory University’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion.

This program is funded under a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This year’s Constitution Day events are sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, the Student Government Association, the University Honors Program, the Office of First-Year Experience, Edith Garland Dupré Library, and the Constitution Day Committee.