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2025 Regular Session
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 101
BY REPRESENTATIVE COATES
A RESOLUTION
To commend Southeastern Louisiana University on the occasion of its centennial
anniversary and to recognize the institution's impact on the state of Louisiana.
WHEREAS, Southeastern Louisiana University began as Hammond Junior College
on September 14, 1925, and welcomed its first students and ushered in a new level of access
to higher learning in the region; and
WHEREAS, Southeastern began offering four-year degrees in 1937 to accommodate
both the institution's growth and the continuously evolving educational needs of southeast
Louisiana, and the university received full academic accreditation soon after; and
WHEREAS, Southeastern has historically recognized the need to expand access to
higher education for people in the region, and in 1955, the university became one of the first
integrated higher education institutions in the South; and
WHEREAS, the institution changed its name from Southeastern Louisiana College
to Southeastern Louisiana University in 1970, prior to marking its fiftieth anniversary; and
WHEREAS, the Northshore region grew significantly in 1997, and the Southeastern
student population reached fifteen thousand students, earning the institution recognition as
the fastest-growing university in the United States; and
WHEREAS, Southeastern became a doctoral granting university in 2006, and the
university is approaching research status in its centennial year; in the institution's one-
hundred-year history, it has granted nearly one hundred thousand degrees, currently offers
more than one hundred fifty programs of study, and has over eighty thousand living alumni,
sixty-one thousand of whom live in Louisiana; and
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WHEREAS, Southeastern Louisiana University currently has a $1 billion annual
impact to the state of Louisiana, and the institution supports fifteen thousand jobs in the
region, impacting generations of Louisianians.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby commend Southeastern Louisiana University on the
occasion of its centennial anniversary and does hereby extend enduring appreciation to the
institution for its contributions to the state of Louisiana.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
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