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<p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;margin:0"><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">All,</span></p>
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exercises</span>. Can you share with me how/where your grad students graduate? Do you award all degrees together? Do you have a separate academic college ceremonies where all bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees in that college are awarded? Do you have
a separate grad school ceremony? Do you do a hooding ceremony? And, if you do, do you hood only doctoral students or do you include masters?</span></p>
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<p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;margin:0"><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">And, more importantly, do you like what you do?</span></p>
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<p style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;margin:0"><span style="color:black;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Thanks in advance for sharing.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">University of Louisiana at Lafayette</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">337-482-6965</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">mary.farmer-kaiser@louisiana.edu</span></p>
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