FROM: OFFICE OF THE PROVOST AND SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS MEMORANDUM

TO: Faculty and Staff

RE: ANNUAL HONORS CONVOCATION

DATE: February 5, 2010

This message serves as a reminder that the 2010 Annual Honors Convocation will be held Sunday, February 21, 2010, at 4:00 p.m., in the Alfred K. Lawless Memorial Chapel. The speaker for this occasion will be Dr. William W. Sutton, President Emeritus of Mississippi Valley State University and Dillard alum, ’53.


Your participation in the Honors Convocation is a primary obligation of full-time faculty and is, thereby, listed on the academic calendar. Should a personal emergency arise that would interfere with attendance at this ceremony, faculty should contact the respective Dean and the Provost, immediately.

LINE-UP AND PROCESSION
The faculty must assemble in academic regalia by 3:40 p.m., in the first-floor lobby of Rosenwald Hall. The Faculty Marshals will arrange the order of the procession and will lead faculty and staff members to their reserved seats. The procession will begin promptly at 3:50 p.m. Faculty and staff members in academic regalia will not be permitted to enter the Chapel once the program has begun.


RECESSIONAL
In the recessional, the platform party will proceed followed by the faculty, staff, and then the students.


ATTIRE
Academic regalia and dark colors are required for all participants in the academic procession. Males should remove their caps prior to the invocation and place them on their heads just before marching out, after the benediction.Your participation is central to the continued success and reverence of this ceremony.


I hope to see each of you there!


Carla Morelon-Quainoo, PhD
Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment/Advising
National Director, Global Issues Honors Consortium
LOCATION: Dent Hall, Room 109
PHONE: 504-816-4788
cmorelon@dillard.edu