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| UL Lafayette is ready to realize the success of its Grad Act agreement. Last week, the Board of Regents approved the university's plan to increase retention among freshmen and improve graduation rates. "The Grad Act reinforces the university's strategic plan, which at its core, focuses efforts on improving student services," said UL Lafayette President Dr. Joseph Savoie. The Grad Act allows participating universities to increase tuition when benchmarks are met. Learn more about UL Lafayette's plan, which includes the Cajun Connection. This first-year seminar for all incoming freshmen provides students with insights necessary for fulfillment and success in college. |
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Thinking Globally
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The B.I. Moody III College of Business Administration is offering a new business curriculum that will have students thinking globally. The International Business curriculum gives students the ability to specialize in international business studies, along with targeted study abroad and internship options related to various regions of the world. International business students can choose from three tracks for a minor or concentration of study. |
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All the Right Moves
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Ernest J. Gaines and his wife, Dianne, with (starting left) Dean of Liberal Arts Dr. David Barry, UL Lafayete President Dr. Joseph Savoie and Dupré Library Director Dr. Charles Triché. |
| Southern literary giant Ernest Gaines told an audience of nearly 300 Sunday that some of his greatest moves were leaving Louisiana to receive an education in 1948, returning to Louisiana in 1963 to write his first novel and coming to UL Lafayette to be its writer-in-residence. He helped to officially open the Ernest J. Gaines Center in UL Lafayette's Dupré Library. Gaines also told the crowd he wrote his first drafts longhand on unlined paper. Lines were too constrictive. |
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Weekend Poetry
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 On Sunday, Nov. 7, UL Lafayette's Writer-in-residence Kate Bernheimer will be on NPR's Weekend Edition. She will speak with host Lynn Neary and American playwright Neil LeBute about the anthology she edited recently, My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales. The interview is scheduled to air between 7:40 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. CST. |
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Hall of Honor
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| The UL Lafayette Foundation thanked nine generous supporters last week during its annual Distinguished Donors reception at the Petroleum Club. This year's honorees helped establish 21 endowments, including professorships, scholarships and faculty development funds. Each endowment will be represented by a plaque in the Distinguished Donor Hall of Honor in Martin Hall. |
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'Unanimous Choice'
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| The Louisiana Early Childhood Association acknowledged the diligent work of the Picard Center for Child Development and Lifelong Learning at UL Lafayette last week. The association presented the center with its 2010 Friend of Children Award, citing the center's Cecil J. Picard LA 4 Early Childhood Program and other early childhood initiatives. |
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