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McNeese State University executive offices that occupied the fourth floor of the Burton Business Center have moved to the first floor of the SEED Center. With the destruction of Farrar Hall, the Burton College of Education (BCOE) lost its central location. Many of the BCOE offices and classrooms will move into the third and…
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McNeese State University is creating the Student Success Center on the first floor of the Frazar Memorial Library as a one-stop shop for student support services. McNeese offers a student-centric college experience and that includes ensuring students have the support they need to help them persist to graduation. The Student Success Center will house tutoring…
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McNeese State University students Maggie McBride, of Lake Charles, and Katherine Sittig, of Eunice, were named the Outstanding Graduates for fall 2023. The McNeese Student Government Association (SGA) and the McNeese Alumni Association worked together to create the Outstanding Graduate Awards. Students are nominated on the basis of scholarship, leadership, service and excellence with a…
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The graduate nursing program at McNeese State University has a new leadership team. Dr. Twila Sterling-Guillory is the new leader of the graduate nursing program at McNeese. Previously, she was the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) coordinator. She earned her doctorate degree from Southern A&M University in 2011. Sterling-Guillory joined the McNeese faculty in…
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McNeese State University and Louisiana State University Eunice (LSUE) have signed multiple agreements that allow students to seamlessly transfer to McNeese after earning an associate degree in business administration, health sciences, nursing and radiologic technology. The new agreements will welcome students from LSUE to complete the coursework for a bachelor’s degree in McNeese’s College of…
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McNeese State University senior, Kayla Warner, is a finalist among students from across the country for the National Student of the Year Award after receiving the Association for the Promotion of Campus Activities (APCA) South Central Regional Student of the Year Award. Warner, from Houston, Texas, is a senior health and human performance major with…
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by Kelsea Ernst, Poke Press Samuel Gil, Student Government Association president at McNeese State University, was tapped as a Rhodes Scholarship finalist, one of only 216 students from around the world to compete for the program. Gil, a senior majoring in mass communication, will travel to Denver, Colorado, in mid-November, where he will meet the…
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McNeese State University Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Kedrick Nicholas, was awarded the Dan Seymour Award for Outstanding Commitment to Student Affairs at the 48th annual Louisiana Association of College and University Student Personnel Administrators (LACUSPA) Conference in Baton Rouge. The LACUSPA Conference presents several awards to recognize individuals throughout the state with extraordinary achievement…
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The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at McNeese State University exceeded its goals for fiscal year 2023 ending Sept. 30. Small businesses benefited from more than $15 million in capital infusion—which is funding for business operations and growth. The U.S. Small Business Administration and Louisiana Economic Development set the goals each year for the SBDC.…
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Lake Charles students Anna Broussard, a radiologic sciences senior, and Beau Dobson, a mass communication senior, have been named as McNeese State University’s 2023 Homecoming Queen and King. The royal pair and court will be presented during halftime ceremonies of the McNeese Cowboys vs. Houston Christian University Huskies football game at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov.…
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