University of Louisiana at Monroe

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

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.

Academics

Pharmacy

The University of Louisiana at Monroe offers the only public school pharmacy degree in the state of Louisiana. Established in 1956, the College of Pharmacy recently acquired a new facility and currently 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).

Marriage and family therapy

The University of Louisiana at Monroe offers M.A. and Ph.D. graduate 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 first 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.

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 from 1994 through 2000 and then became a charter member of the Sun Belt's football conference in 2001.

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.

Traditions

Louisiana-Monroe's colors are maroon and gold. Their mascot is the Warhawks.

On January 30, 2006, university President Dr. 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 was then made available to students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors and others (interested parties with no affiliation to the school). The top three results were Warhawks, Bayou Gators and Bayou Hawks. The school's mascot committee then voted on the three finalists and passed along their recommendation to the university president, who made the final decision. ULM's new mascot, the Warhawks, was announced on April 5, 2006 and implemented on June 26, 2006. [http://www.ulm.edu/gowarhawks/ 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.

Greek Life

Sororities

IFC Fraternities

NPHC Organizations

Organizations with campus presence that are not officially recognized by ULM

This information is current as of 25 June 2006, retrieved from ^*

External links

University of Louisiana at Monroe | Educational institutions established in 1931 | Universities and colleges in Louisiana | Southern Association of Colleges and Schools | Sun Belt Conference

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