University of Louisiana at Monroe
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| Established | 1931 |
| Type | Public |
| President | James E. Cofer, Sr. |
| Undergraduates | 9,000 |
| Postgraduates | 1,100 |
| Location | Monroe, Louisiana, USA |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Maroon and Gold |
| Nickname | Warhawks |
| Website | http://www.ulm.edu |
The University of Louisiana at Monroe is a coeducational, public university located in Monroe, Louisiana, USA with an approximate enrollment of 10,100 students, also known as Louisiana-Monroe or ULM, and is a part of the University of Louisiana System.
The University of Louisiana at Monroe is the only university in Louisiana to offer a master's degree in gerontology. ULM also is the only state university in Louisiana to offer undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral pharmacy degrees.
The University of Louisiana at Monroe also is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS). All undergraduate programs at the University of Louisiana at Monroe that are eligible for accreditation by professional agencies are accredited. Such as the College of Business Administration at ULM has received the AACSB accreditation for all undergraduate and postgraduate business degree programs.
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[edit] History
- In September 1931, the university held its first session as Ouachita Parish Junior College.
- In 1934, Louisiana State University received authority from the state legislature to operate the facilities of the university as Northeast Center of Louisiana State University.
- Its name was changed to Northeast Junior College of Louisiana State University in 1939.
- In 1950, the state legislature approved the expansion of Northeast Junior College to a full college offering academic degrees. The name was changed to Northeast Louisiana State College.
- The university began offering its first doctoral degrees in the 1969-70 academic year, and its name was changed to Northeast Louisiana University by the legislature.
- On August 27, 1999, the university officially changed its name to its present form, the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
[edit] Academics
[edit] Pharmacy
Established in 1956, the College of Pharmacy acquired a new facility in 2006 and is in the process of moving classes and labs to the new off-campus building. The College of Pharmacy also plans to open satellite campuses in Shreveport and Baton Rouge in the near future. Current requisites require a two-year pre-pharmacy program; a third-year requisite will be required for the entering students in 2008 (graduating pharmacy class of 2012).
[edit] Business
The University of Louisiana at Monroe offers several undergraduate and postgraduate (MBA) degree programs. Since 1973, the College of Business Administration at ULM has received the AACSB accreditation for all undergraduate and postgraduate business degree programs. AACSB is generally regarded among the prestigious MBA accreditations worldwide, and awarded to the top 15% of business schools in the United States.
[edit] Marriage and family therapy
The University of Louisiana at Monroe offers M.A. and Ph.D. programs in marriage and family therapy. Cybernetics, which evolved from the Macy conferences in the same year, and which focuses on information processing, feedback mechanisms, and patterns of communication, informs the theories and methodologies of this discipline. Additionally, systemic thinking dating from the 1920s and 1930s in works by Sullivan, von Bertalanffy and Bateson have become the cornerstones for theories in the field of marriage and family therapy. Marriage and family therapists diagnose and treat a wide range of mental and emotional disorders as well as other health and behavioral problems.
The University of Louisiana at Monroe established a master's degree program in marriage and family therapy in 1983 which became accredited in 1987. Today the ULM program is accredited by both the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) and the Council for the Accreditation for Counseling and Related Educational Programs (CACREP) — one of only two dually-accredited marriage and family therapy programs in the United States. With the Louisiana Board of Regents' approval (1995), a doctoral program in marriage and family therapy was implemented in the fall of 1996.
[edit] Theatre Arts
ULM is also known for its Division of Theatre and Drama, which was established in 1953. For many years, the division was headed by George C. Brian (1919-2007), Ph.D., a Baton Rouge native who was an actor, director, filmmaker, singer, dancer and patron of the arts. He revitalized the program and brought Broadway stars to Monroe to perform with his students.
[edit] Athletics
Louisiana-Monroe sports teams participate in NCAA Division I (I-A for football). ULM joined the Sun Belt Conference for all sports on July 1, 2006 after previously playing as a member of the Southland Conference in all sports except football (the swimming and diving team was also a member of the Sun Belt Conference before ULM dropped the sport in April 2005).
ULM moved up from Division I-AA to Division I-A in 1994 and played as a I-A independent program from 1994 through 2000. ULM became a football-only member of the Sun Belt Conference in 2001 when the conference began sponsoring football; in 2006, ULM joined as a member in all sports. In 2005, ULM shared the Sun Belt Conference football championship with Arkansas State University and the University of Louisiana-Lafayette (ASU received the conference's New Orleans Bowl bid due to tiebreaking procedures).
The university is the home of several award-winning groups including the Sound of Today and the competition cheerleading squad. The ULM water ski team is the most successful in the history of collegiate water skiing, having won 18 times in the annual NCWSA national championships since its inception in 1979. The Bayou DeSiard was the host site of the first national championships in that year.
[edit] Traditions
Louisiana-Monroe's colors are maroon and gold. The mascot is the Warhawks.
On January 30, 2006, university president James Cofer announced officially that ULM would be retiring the 75-year-old "Indians" mascot in light of new NCAA restrictions against American Indian-themed mascots, which the NCAA considers "hostile and abusive" to Native Americans. This came a few days after a mascot committee voted unanimously in favor of the change. The university accepted suggestions for the new mascot through February 28, 2006. The mascot committee then selected 12 semifinalists.
An online poll, available to students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors and others (interested parties with no affiliation to the school), yielded three semifinalists: "Warhawks," "Bayou Gators" and "Bayou Hawks." [1] The school's mascot committee passed a single recommendation to the university president, who made the final decision. Warhawks was announced as ULM's new mascot on April 5, 2006 and implemented on June 26, 2006. [2] The new nickname honors Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault's Air Force unit from World War II, which utilized the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk in battle, although the logos primarily use bird imagery.
[edit] Greek life
[edit] Sororities
- Phi Mu 1956
- Alpha Omicron Pi 1958
- Kappa Delta 1967
[edit] IFC Fraternities
[edit] NPHC Organizations
- Alpha Kappa Alpha
- Alpha Phi Alpha
- Delta Sigma Theta
- Kappa Alpha Psi
- Omega Psi Phi
- Sigma Gamma Rho
- Zeta Phi Beta
[edit] Organizations with campus presence that are not officially recognized by ULM
This information is current as of 25 June 2006, retrieved from [3]
[edit] External links
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| Arkansas–Little Rock • Arkansas State • Denver • Florida Atlantic • Florida International • Louisiana–Lafayette • Lousiana–Monroe • Middle Tennessee • New Orleans • North Texas • South Alabama • Troy • Western Kentucky |
