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LC welcomes Boys & Girls Club’s Youth Legislature to campus March 10
By Dr. Elizabeth Christian Pineville, LA (LC News) — Louisiana College will host the Boys & Girls Club’s Youth Legislature on campus Wednesday in Granberry Student Center. About 50 middle-schoolers from north and central Louisiana will be on campus between 8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. participating in this annual mock legislative session. “I’m excited about…
Read MoreLC to host spring Christ Church Culture series in March, April
By Dr. Elizabeth Christian Pineville, LA (LC News) — Louisiana College will hold two events as part of its spring C3 Christ Church Culture Lecture Series beginning Tuesday, March 9 with a timely presentation on “Religious Rights and COVID-19.” Dana Harris, the regional alliance director for the Alliance for Defending Freedom, will address how important…
Read MoreLC students get hands-on business experiences with LBF internships
By Dr. Elizabeth Christian Pineville, LA (LC News) – One need only do a quick Google search to see how important completing an internship is to today’s college student. A growing number of employers across industries want to hire graduates who have had real-world experience prior to hiring them. Louisiana College has been partnering with…
Read MoreLouisiana College Black History Month symposium a celebration of diversity
Kylei Cornelison and Victoria Watson, Wildcats Media Louisiana College hosted a panel discussion on diversity Tuesday, Feb. 2 to kick off Black History Month to celebrate diversity, specifically diversity on campus. LC was recently recognized as the second most diverse college in Louisiana by niche.com. Guest panelists were all LC professors who represented five different…
Read MorePineville student wins prestigious Smith Scholarship
By Dr. Elizabeth Christian Pineville, LA (LC News) – Louisiana College held its annual Smith Scholarship competition Saturday, January 30, with 15 entrants. Pineville High School senior Leanna Lanford took the top award: a scholarship to LC that includes tuition, books, room and board. Lanford said, in her acceptance of the award, that she had…
Read MoreWildcat Debate takes top novice trophy at first tournament of semester
Louisiana College Wildcat Debate Team has the best novice debater in the state. By Dr. Elizabeth Christian Pineville, LA (LC News) – Shelby Cumpton, a freshman history major from Quitman, was named the Louisiana Champion Novice Debater at the Annual Southern Forensics Championship Tournament, hosted virtually this year by the University of Central Arkansas. “All…
Read MoreLouisiana College renovates residence halls, upgrades landscaping on campus
By Dr. Elizabeth Christian Pineville, LA (LC News) – Except for the fewer number of trees, one would never know – driving on Louisiana College’s campus—that the school had been hard hit by a tornado and a hurricane in the last two years. The grounds—and the residence halls—have received major upgrades, thanks to generous donor…
Read MoreBlack History Month events begin at Louisiana College with celebration of diversity
Pineville, LA (LC News) – Louisiana College will host two events in February in honor of Black History Month. Feb. 2, a symposium celebrating the diversity on campus will begin at 6 p.m., followed two weeks later by a gospel concert featuring some well-known community members. “The world is changing, and diversity is the new…
Read MoreMSW program seeks to fill need in CENLA for graduate level social workers
By Sierra Boudreaux, Wildcats Media Service to others comes in many forms. Allison Dean thought her journey would include being a pastry chef and nourishing the appetites of customers. Instead, her love for her grandmother fed her own soul and led her down a completely different pathway. When Dean didn’t get accepted into the pastry…
Read MoreTLC’s production of “The Wiz” to open Jan. 22 following long COVID delay
By Dr. Elizabeth Christian Pineville, LA (LC News) – Theatre Louisiana College (tlc) and the Louisiana College Department of Music will present the popular Broadway musical “The Wiz” beginning Jan. 22 after a nearly year-long delay due to COVID-19. “The Wiz” infuses L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” with a wonderful array of…
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