CenLamar | Est. 2006

For those of you who are interested, please review the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Principles of Accreditation. Please allow me to quote from a particularly important passage: The product of accreditation is a public statement of an institution’s continuing capacity to provide effective programs and services based on agreed-upon requirements. The statement of an institution’s accreditation status with the Commission of Colleges is also an affirmation of that institution’s continuing committment to the Commission’s principles and philosophy of accreditation. The Commission on Colleges supports the right of an institution to pursue its established educational mission; the right of…

Responding to Remarks Concerning LC (Originally Posted on Cenla Antics): As a follow-up to the article I wrote this morning: Obviously the business analogy is what we’re working with here, so let’s expound on that a little bit. LC isn’t like a privately-held small business; it’s more like a publicly-traded mid-sized business. The Board doesn’t “own” LC, and although the Southern Baptist Convention claims ownership, they don’t actually “own” LC either. LC is owned by shareholders: its students, its alumni, its donors, its professors. These groups have the most “stock” in the future success of LC, because their worth in…

Bill Would Require State Flags to Show Blood on Pelican’s Chest BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — An eighth-grader’s school project could change the appearance of Louisiana’s state flag. Urged by 14-year-old Joseph Louviere of Houma, a House committee has approved a bill that would require all new state flags to show three drops of blood on the pelican’s chest, part of the description of the state’s earliest flags. Louisiana’s blue state flag shows a mother pelican feeding her brood of chicks in a nest over the state motto of “Union, Justice and Confidence.” Historical renditions and descriptions of the flag…