VSU Celebrates Constitution Day with Read-Aloud, Giveaways, Student Panel
Friday, September 11th, 2026
Valdosta State University will observe Constitution Day with a Read-Aloud event from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, in Odum Library Auditorium.
Special guest readers include Dr. Donald J. Green, VSU president; Dr. Sheri Noviello, interim provost and vice president of Academic Affairs; and Dr. Vince Miller, vice president of Enrollment and Student Affairs.
Cookies will be served, and Odum Library guests will receive a pocket version of the Constitution to take home. American Association of University Women volunteers will host a voter registration drive in the atrium outside Odum Library Auditorium.
Following the Read-Aloud, the Department of Political Science will present a student panel conversation — “Debating Trump v Slaughter: For Cause Removal and Separation of Powers” — from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in Odum Library Auditorium.
Constitution Day is open to all students, faculty, staff, and others who want to come together, commemorate the signing of the Constitution of the United States, and honor the rights and responsibilities of American citizenship.
Emily Rogers, reference librarian and professor, said the purpose of this event is to promote awareness and understanding of the Constitution and of Constitution Day.
“On Sept. 17, 1787, the Founding Fathers signed the most influential document in American history — the United States Constitution,” according to the National Constitution Center. “This document established the framework of our government and the rights and freedoms that ‘We the People’ enjoy today.”
U.S. Senator Robert Byrd, a democrat from West Virginia, designated Sept. 17 as a day to recognize all who have become citizens, either by birth or naturalization, and to learn more about the formation of the nation’s founding document. Constitution Day became a national observance in 2004.
“Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world,” Byrd reportedly once said.
In honor of Constitution Day, all educational institutions receiving federal funding are required to hold an educational program pertaining to the U.S. Constitution.
Contact Emily C. Rogers at (229) 245-3748 or [email protected] to learn more.
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