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A $15.7 million addition to the Shearman Fine Arts Building, located just beyond the Entrance Plaza, officially opened on May 7, 2010.
Nearly 70 percent of the public four-year college degrees earned by residents of Southwest Louisiana come from McNeese.
Nearly 70 percent of the public four-year college degrees earned by residents of Southwest Louisiana come from McNeese.
The annual summer Cowboy Camp offers incoming freshman a chance to meet other members of the Freshman Class and student leaders while learning more about McNeese history and traditions. Cowboy Camp for 2012 is on July 13.
The annual summer Cowboy Camp offers incoming freshman a chance to meet other members of the Freshman Class and student leaders while learning more about McNeese history and traditions. Cowboy Camp for 2012 is on July 13.
McNeese Theatre productions are created and performed in the Shearman Fine Arts Building that features a new 526-seat theatre and stage and overhead sound and lighting control booth.
Each year during National Engineers Week the McNeese College of Engineering and Engineering Technology hosts open houses for the community and for high school juniors and seniors.
A sophomore music education major has been accepted into the 2011 Rafael Méndez Brass Institute at the University of Denver Lamont School of Music.
Rodeo has been a part of McNeese since 1947 when the first rodeo team was formed.
The McNeese men’s rodeo team won three consecutive national championships from 1957 to 1959 and has also included 10 men’s and women’s national individual rodeo championships and two reserve championships from 1958-2008.
The McNeese forensic team amassed a total of 140 awards this year at tournaments in Florida, Texas, Virginia, Connecticut (Yale), California, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Hawaii, Oregon and Nebraska.
The team won the overall team excellence award and placed 12th in the nation out of 86 schools represented at the 47th Bi-Annual Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament and Convention and the director of McNeese forensics received the Golden Gavel Award. A McNeese Senior became the first student from McNeese to make the final round of the recent American Forensics Association National Individual Events Tournament, placing second in the nation in Impromptu Speaking and third in the nation in Extemporaneous Speaking.
731 students received degrees at the University’s spring commencement on May 21 including 552 from Louisiana and 45 students from Texas.
Other states represented by the graduates include Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Arizona, California, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Indiana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota and Wyoming. The countries of Bolivia, China, Columbia, Ecuador, Ireland, Germany, Guinea, Korea, India, Indonesia, Lithuania, Mexico, Nepal, Palestine, Romania, Taiwan, Ukraine and Vietnam were also represented.
The annual summer Cowboy Camp offers incoming freshman a chance to meet other members of the Freshman Class and student leaders while learning more about McNeese history and traditions.
Campers get a behind the scenes tour of several facilities and have numerous chances to win over $1,000 in prizes including Bookstore scholarships.
See the Campus Life website for more information
