University of Louisiana at Monroe explained

University of Louisiana at Monroe
Former Name:Ouachita Parish Junior College (1931–1934)
Northeast Center of Louisiana State University (1934–1949)
Northeast Junior College of Louisiana State University (1949–1950)
Northeast Louisiana State College (1950–1969)
Northeast Louisiana University (1969–1999)
Type:Public university
Parent:University of Louisiana System
Academic Affiliations:Space-grant
President:Ronald Berry[1]
City:Monroe
State:Louisiana
Country:United States
Coor:32.527°N -92.074°W
Campus:Urban
Main Campus: 238acres
Endowment:$73 million[2]
Students:8,854[3]
Undergrad:7,550
Postgrad:1,304
Colors:Maroon and gold[4]
 
Nickname:Warhawks
Sporting Affiliations:NCAA Division I FBSSun Belt
Mascot:Ace the Warhawk

The University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) is a public university in Monroe, Louisiana. It is part of the University of Louisiana System.

History

ULM opened in 1931 as Ouachita Parish Junior College. Three years later it became the Northeast Center of Louisiana State University. In 1936 and 1937, its dean was Stephen A. Caldwell.[5]

Its name changed again in 1949, to Northeast Junior College of Louisiana State University. A year later, it became an autonomous four-year institution as Northeast Louisiana State College. In 1969, it granted doctoral degrees for the first time and was elevated to university status as Northeast Louisiana University (NLU).

In 1999, NLU was renamed to its present name (ULM).

21st century

A 2002 "Reclaim Our Campus" effort targeted recovery from financial and auditing difficulties.[6]

In 2010, James Erwin Cofer Sr., left the ULM presidency after eight years to head Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. He was succeeded by Nick Bruno as the eighth president of ULM.

Academics

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Department of Atmospheric Science

The Atmospheric Science program at ULM offers the only four-year Meteorology program in the state of Louisiana. ULM's Atmospheric Science program is the only undergraduate only program with a Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar.

College of Business

The College of Business and Social Sciences (CBSS) seeks to prepare students for productive careers and responsible citizenship. The college benefits students, businesses and the community through research and service. ULM seeks excellence in business education by offering a student-centered learning environment that produces high-quality graduates and by engaging in research and service that benefits students, business and the community. ULM offers AACSB accredited[7] undergraduate and graduate MBA degree programs.

Marriage & Family Therapy

Master's in marriage and family therapy is accredited by both the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education and The Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs. A doctoral program in marriage and family therapy was approved by the Louisiana Board of Regents in June of 1995.[8]

College of Pharmacy

Established in 1956, the College of Pharmacy[9] is accredited by the American Council on Pharmacy Education, including one of seven Toxicology programs in the U.S. In 2007, the College of Pharmacy moved from the main campus to the off-campus (Bienville) building. There are satellite campuses in Shreveport and Baton Rouge.[10]

The College of Pharmacy at ULM is Louisiana's only publicly supported comprehensive center for pharmaceutical education, research, and service. The college includes several modern specialized instructional and health service facilities and numerous affiliated off-campus teaching hospitals and pharmacies throughout the state.

In 1999, Milburn E. Calhoun, a New Orleans physician, philanthropist, and Pelican Books publisher endowed the million-dollar Mary E. and Darrell L. Calhoun Chair in Pharmacology, named for his late parents.[11]

Theater Arts

ULM is home to the Emy-Lou Biedenharn Recital Hall, named for the opera singer and daughter of the Coca-Cola entrepreneur Joseph A. Biedenharn.[12]

Natural History Museum

The university's Natural History Museum was home to the 6-million-specimen Neil Douglas fish collection and the 500,000-specimen R. Dale Thomas plant collection. In March 2017, museum staff announced that they had been told the collections would have to be divested to enable an expansion of the university's stadium, and that any specimens which had not been relocated to other institutions by July 2017 would be destroyed.[13] The specimens were subsequently distributed to other institutions, with the plant collection going to the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, the herpetological collection to the University of Texas at Arlington, the entomological collection to Mississippi State University, and the ichthyological collection to Tulane University.[14]

Campus gallery

Rankings

U.S. News & World Report as of 2015 ranks University of Louisiana at Monroe as follows:[15]

Athletics

See main article: Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks.

Major sports

Teams participate in NCAA Division I (Division I FBS for football). ULM joined the Sun Belt Conference for all sports on July 1, 2006, after playing in the Southland Conference in all sports except football (swimming and diving team was in Sun Belt Conference, but was dropped in 2005). The school's sports teams previously competed as the Indians until 2006.

ULM moved from Division I-AA (now Division I FCS) to Division I-A (now FBS) in 1994 and played as a I-A independent 1994–2000. It became a football-only Sun Belt Conference member in 2001 and joined as a member in all sports in 2006. ULM shared the 2005 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). Also, in 2012, ULM had their first winning season as an FBS school going, 8–5, and a bid to the 2012 Independence Bowl in Shreveport vs. the Ohio Bobcats, but lost 45–14.[16]

ULM basketball coaches have included Arnold R. Kilpatrick, Lenny Fant, and Mike Vining. Fant was the first ULM coach to win three hundred games. Current head coach Keith Richard is a former point guard and alumnus from ULM.

Since being in the Sun Belt, the Warhawks have won conference titles in men's basketball (2006–07 West Co-Champion) and baseball (2008 regular season and 2012 conference tournament).

The ULM football team posted its first six-win season since moving to Division I-A in 2007 going 6–6, which included a 21–14 victory at Alabama. On September 8, 2012, ULM beat number 8 Arkansas 34–31 in overtime to become the first Sun Belt Conference team to beat a top ten SEC team. This was their second ever win against a ranked opponent after defeating number 20 Richmond 14–8 in Monroe in 1973.

The football and baseball stadiums and ULM Activities Center were designed by architect Hugh G. Parker of Bastrop.

Other activities

ULM is home to several award-winning groups including the Sound of Today marching band and the competition cheerleading squad.

The ULM water ski team[17] is the most successful in the history of the collegiate sport, having won 28 National Collegiate Water Skiing Association championships since 1979.[18] In that year, Bayou Desiard was the host site of the national competition.

Greek life

Student body composition as of May 2, 2022
Race and ethnicity[19] Total
White
Black
Other
Foreign national
Hispanic
Asian
Economic diversity
Low-income
Affluent
ULM recognizes the following active fraternities and sororities.[20]

Notable alumni

See main article: List of University of Louisiana at Monroe alumni. Some of University of Louisiana at Monroe notable alumni include:

External links

Notes and References

  1. Dr. Ronald Berry named 9th president of the University of Louisiana Monroe . 15 December 2020 . www.ulm.edu . September 8, 2020 . en.
  2. Web site: University of Louisiana Monroe Foundation Audit . LLA Default Homepage . Louisiana Legislative Auditor . 20 January 2022.
  3. Web site: Preliminary Headcount Enrollment Summary . Louisiana Board of Regents . September 2015 . 2015-10-19.
  4. University of Louisiana Monroe Brand Guide . August 3, 2022.
  5. Web site: Caldwell, Stephen Adol;phus. Louisiana Historical Association

    A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography

    . March 15, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20101201234453/http://www.lahistory.org/site20.php. December 1, 2010. dead. mdy-all.
  6. Web site: Louisiana Legislative Auditor Report . January 10, 2007 . 2009-10-26.
  7. Web site: Welcome to the College of Business Administration . University of Louisiana at Monroe . 2009-10-26.
  8. http://as400.regents.state.la.us/pdfs/crin/crincat.pdf
  9. Web site: College of Pharmacy at ULM . University of Louisiana at Monroe . 2009-10-26.
  10. Web site: three-year requisite . University of Louisiana at Monroe . 2009-10-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080408190530/http://rxweb.ulm.edu/pharmacy/pre%20requisite%20curriculm%201.pdf . April 8, 2008 .
  11. Milburn E. Calhoun obituary, Monroe News Star, January 11, 2012
  12. News: Scott Rogers, "Family imprint seen in Monroe a century after arrival", April 21, 2013 . . April 22, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141025121429/http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20130421/NEWS01/304210310/Family-imprint-seen-Monroe-century-after-arrival . October 25, 2014 .
  13. https://gizmodo.com/university-threatens-destruction-of-millions-of-specime-1793745389 University Threatens Destruction of Millions of Specimens if Museum of Natural History Collection Not Relocated
  14. https://web.archive.org/web/20181118205602/http://brit.org/phytophilia/NLU-herbarium-to-BRIT
  15. Web site: Rankings. rankingsandreviews.com.
  16. Web site: Jimmy Chung -ULM Warhawks Athletics . ulmwarhawks.com . 2012-09-09 . 2012-09-09.
  17. Web site: ULM water ski team . ULM water ski team . 2009-10-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090920221515/http://www.ulmwaterskiteam.com/ . 2009-09-20 . dead .
  18. Web site: ULM Water Ski dominates field for 26th National Championship - ULM University of Louisiana at Monroe. www.ulm.edu.
  19. Web site: College Scorecard: University of Louisiana at Monroe. . May 8, 2022.
  20. http://www.ulm.edu/studentlife/greek.html Student Life – Greek
  21. Web site: Zeta Pi Chapter of Delta Sigma Phi . July 29, 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928031704/http://tribe.ulm.edu/%7edeltasig/ . September 28, 2007 .
  22. Web site: Theta Zeta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. – A Bravenet.com Hosted Site . Sweetthetazeta.bravehost.com . 2009-10-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080908013529/http://www.sweetthetazeta.bravehost.com/ . 2008-09-08 . dead .
  23. Web site: ITC Labs & Classrooms . Beta Theta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc . Geocities.com . 2009-10-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20091027030707/http://geocities.com/betathetachapter/. dead . 2009-10-27.
  24. Web site: Archived copy . 2007-07-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928045722/http://www.aopiulm.org/ . 2007-09-28 . dead .
  25. Web site: New Page 1 . July 29, 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070905165757/http://www.kappadelta-deltazeta.com/ . September 5, 2007 .
  26. Web site: Phi Mu Fraternity- Alpha Rho Chapter . Tribe.ULM.edu . 2009-10-26 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080115213448/http://tribe.ulm.edu/~phimu/ . January 15, 2008 .
  27. News: McGuff. Joe. Talk of the Times. The Kansas City Times . The Kansas City Times. January 27, 1965. Missouri, Kansas City. 13. Newspapers.com. November 30, 2015.