Two Lafayette campuses that are part of the Louisiana Community & Technical College System were among 17 statewide to grow enrollment, according to the latest rankings of the fasted growing two-year public institutions nationwide by Community College Week, a magazine that bills itself as “the independent voice covering community, technical and junior colleges.”
South Louisiana Community College jumped into the “2,500 to 4,999” enrollment category for the first time, ranking 12 out of 50 schools with a 19.9 percent enrollment increase from fall 2007 to fall 2008, when 2,944 students were enrolled. Louisiana Technical College’s Lafayette campus, meanwhile, ranked 35th in the “less than 2,500” enrollment category, growing 16.2 percent in the same time period. LTC-Lafayette’s enrollment in fall 2008 was 1,126 students.
LTC-Oakdale was named the fastest-growing two-year public institution nationwide among schools with an enrollment of fewer than 2,500 students.
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
Is it a crime for citizens to photograph, video, or take notes of a police officer in the line of duty, or a right protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? Locally, such activity, as witnessed recently, will at the very least result in a night spent behind bars.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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