December 2025 Graduation

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University will celebrate more than 130 Fall 2025 graduates with a series of pinning and awards ceremonies on Thursday, Dec. 11, and Friday, Dec. 12, followed by the official commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 13.

Pinning and awards ceremonies will take place in St. Francis Hall on the following schedule:

• School of Nursing: Thursday, Dec. 11, at 10:30 a.m.
• School of Health Professions: Thursday, Dec. 11, at 2:30 p.m.
• School of Arts and Sciences: Thursday, Dec. 11, at 2:30 p.m.
• Doctor of Nurse Practice, Nurse Anesthesia Program: Friday, Dec. 12, at 10 a.m.

The commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 13, at 10 a.m. will be held in the Raising Cane’s River Center Ballroom, located at 275 South River Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70802.

Deacon Terry Bellon will deliver the commencement address. Bellon, a 1994 nursing graduate, returned to FranU two decades later to enter the diaconate formation program. During his final year as a student in the 90s, he served as president of the Student Government Association and sat on the university’s school board.