UL Lafayette’s yearbook, L'Acadien, earned a first-place ranking in an evaluation from Prejean Creative, a nationally recognized branding, advertising and design firm.
The firm recognized the 2025 edition of L’Acadien, which features a stained-glass fleur-de-lis and textured bricks on the cover, for excellence in content presentation, general page design, photography, creativity and publication structure.
"We used the campus community as a symbol, a larger mosaic made up of a bunch of smaller pieces that are never identical, as a theme," said Morgan Parker, editor-in-chief of the 2025 edition of L’Acadien. "We produce the yearbook each year to connect students to events and areas of campus they may have previously been unaware of and to document the year for archival purposes that will last a lifetime."
L’Acadien previously earned four first-place awards in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024 from the American Scholastic Press Association in New York. The yearbook earned a second-place award from ASPA in 2023. L’Acadien staff was also named the UL Outstanding Student Organization at UL’s Ragin' Recognition Awards in 2022.
"The University is proud of our professional-level students who yearly publish a keepsake that the UL Lafayette community will value for generations to come," said Matthew Tarver director of Student Publications. "We appreciate their diligent and hard work and their ability to permanently record the events that shaped campus life during the academic year."
Edith Garland Dupré started L’Acadien yearbook in 1911, and it is one of the oldest student organizations on campus. L’Acadien and The Vermilion newspaper are part of UL Lafayette’s Office of Student Publications, which employs approximately 35 students from 12 different majors.
Photo caption: 2025 L'Acadien yearbook staff (front row, from left): Landon Fruge, Morgan Courville, Morgan Parker, Alyus Dick; second row: Sadie Burrell, Lauren Gerald, Joseph Bozzelle, Marie Ducote; third row: Zoha Mahmood, Mary Allen, Caitlyn Comeaux, Devon Magee; Joanne Seow; fourth row: Sonya Breaux, Izzy Lamb, Makayla Walker, Kayla Woods-Crane, Geonna Tipton; fifth row, Kaydence Vital, Remington Quibodeaux and Nyria Mustiful. Photo credit: Courtesy of L'Acadien