A Message from the Vice President of Academic Affairs

I am pleased to welcome you to Xavier University of Louisiana whether you are visiting, matriculating, or simply viewing the University's webpage. Our academic mission is part of an historic tradition that reaches to St. Katharine Drexel and the order of nuns that she founded, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. Like St. Katharine, we believe that a  liberal and professional education, grounded in the principles and virtues of Christianity, will prepare African Americans, Native Americans, and other students to lead society toward building a just and humane world as well as preparing them for fulfilling lives.

Our faculties in the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Pharmacy, and Graduate Programs form a body committed to building and maintaining a community dedicated to the University’s mission. In this process faculty in all the disciplines work toward making the students aware of who they are, from where they have come, and how they will grow in intellectual, spiritual, and social dimensions. The University's various curricula reflect these efforts in courses as well as in complementary co-curricular experiences.

The Deans of the University's colleges and I actively encourage and coordinate this community of scholar-teachers and students in making their teaching and learning contribute to a positive difference in their own lives as well as in those whom they will encounter beyond the University. As the only Roman Catholic and historically African American institution of higher learning in the Western hemisphere, Xavier University embraces its mission and attendant responsibilities with enthusiastic commitment.

Elizabeth A. Barron, Ph. D