Nicholls State University - La Pirogue Yearbook (Thibodaux, LA)

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B udean shall C. Kinchen, was promoted this year to full professor. He and his faculty are actively involved in the Louisiana Business Education Association, Louisiana Teachers Association and Louisiana Association for Higher Education. Elsie Ware, an associate professor in the department, retired at the end of the spring semester, receiving a special award at the Seventh Annual Business Administration Honor Banquet in the Student Union ballroom. There were four graduate students in the department. They included Betty Brookover, Sandra Hall, Claire Ken- drick and Yvonne Prejean. During the summer, Bobby McLean, 31, an instructor in the department, died in Thibodaux. She is survived by her husband, Leon McLean, formerly an associate professor in the English department and two sons, Nathan, 5, and Ioseph, 7. Sue C. Cavalier is the departments secretary. Other faculty members include Hilda Dees, Elaine Webb and Leo Landry Ir. Dees also serves as the advisor to the NATIONAL COLLECIATE ASSOCIA- TION FOR SECRETARIES CNCASJ, a group that sponsored a tea for the cam-- pus secretaries during National Secre- tfy 'hge L k A .- , . Q ' . ' -at - we .1 ' 1 g I .W Q - x -.,,-,w f 2356 22 I 52 1 taries Week, March 13-19. Cov. Edwin Edwards issued a procla- mation recognizing the week in Louisi- ana in honor of the work done to pro- mote professionalism on the college campuses. Over 200 participants attended the NCAS convention on the University of Southwestern Louisiana campus. Theresa Ordoyne, Nicholls chapter president, delivered the invocation at the convention. Other Nicholls officers include Velma Cantrelle, vice president: Fran- ces Ayers, secretary, and Shelia Lovette, reporter-historian. The master of business administra- tion CMBAJ degree requires the comple- tion of course work in accounting, busi- ness administration, economics, finance, management and marketing. Students may choose their electives in one concentrated area or they may diversify. Dr. Cliff Cresham is responsible for the MBA program. He is also advisor to Delta Mu Delta, an honorary group formed in 1974 to recognize outstanding academic achievement in the college of business administration. President is Patti Rasberryp vice pres- ident, Lynn Ellzeyg secretary, Peggy Lauga: and treasurer, Lee Ramsey. Kinchen was available at registration to help majors in his department. Marshall Kinchen, head of administrative ser- vices and vocational business education, was pro- moted to full professor. sim-ss Administration

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Members of the CGLLEGE OF EDU- CATION are busy preparing for a review by the board of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Educators KNCATEJ. NCATE has the highest standard of any accrediting organization in the country. If the college qualifies for accreditation, it will be included in a listing with other approved institutions. Teachers having certification from an NCATE-approved institution can move to any state and have no diffi- culty finding employment. Dr. D. G. Ioseph, dean of the college of education, helped to institute an accountability-based teacher education program at Nicholls. The Nicholls-Teacher Education Pilot Program KN-TEPPJ, in its third year, makes use of actual in-field expe- rience in training teachers. The program uses two-period block classes combined with team teaching, in order to give students more working time, and a more varied outlook on education. In-field observations and participa- tion are required in an effort to expose the student to the classroom situation