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About Leah Jackson

Leah Jackson is Northwestern State University's Director of Public Information and Media Relations. She is a 1994 and 2011 graduate of NSU and has been on staff since 2004.

Interested applicants invited to CLIP informational sessions

The Orchard Foundation is holding two information sessions for interested applicants to learn more about the Central Louisiana Instructional Partnership, a paid teacher residency program that develops middle school math and science teachers for high-needs schools in Central Louisiana. Recruitment is underway for the final CLIP cohort, which begins its work in June.

Anyone interested in […]

NSU lifts mask mandate

NATCHITOCHES – Following updated guidance from the University of Louisiana System, Northwestern State University is eliminating the mask mandate that has been in effect at all university campuses and other educational sites and facilities.

Although the mask requirement will end effectively immediately, students, faculty, staff, and visitors on NSU campuses are still encouraged to wear masks […]

NSU-Shreveport campus will be closed Friday, Feb. 4

In exercising caution for the safety of students, faculty and staff, Northwestern State University’s Shreveport campus will be closed on Friday, February 4.

Students, faculty and staff are advised to use extreme caution on roadways, overpasses and bridges that may freeze and black ice that could cover roads as temperatures fall into the upper 20s.

Students who […]

Current Sauce, NSU TV profile one of NSU first Black students

The Current Sauce

185 Sam Sibley Drive

Natchitoches, LA 71457

Contact: Alexandra Robichaux

thecurrentsauce@gmail.com

 

NATCHITOCHES – The Northwestern State University TV News Service and The Current Sauce, NSU’s student news source, collaborated to provide the NSU and Natchitoches community with a special multimedia feature on Doris Roque-Robinson, one of the first Black students to desegregate NSU. The Current Sauce’s […]

NSU alum wins first Emmy

NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State University alumna BriYonna Collins was part of a team from WAFB-TV in Baton Rouge to bring home an Emmy award in the Newscast – Morning – Smaller Markets category.  WAFB 9News This Morning won the category for the second year in a row.  This year’s entry included the station’s morning coverage […]

NSU campuses earn Wellspot designations

NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State University’s Natchitoches and Shreveport campuses earned designation as Wellspots, a distinction promoted by the Well-Ahead Louisiana program.  Well-Ahead Louisiana, an arm of the Louisiana Department of Health, focuses on promoting healthy choices and resources to better the communities and lives of Louisiana residents.  NSU was designated as a Level 2 Wellspot […]

Cradle to College gets Dollar General grant

NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State University was awarded $3,000 from Dollar General’s Youth Literacy Grant program to support the Cradle to College initiative, a project that seeks to provide literacy activities, resources and support to children and their families so they can engage in family literacy and play activities at home.  The Cradle to College initiative […]

Alumnae win Facebook SEEN and Blackhouse Foundation filmmaking grant competition

NATCHITOCHES – Tracey Renee’ Davis, director, and Danielle Apugo, executive producer, graduates of Northwestern State University and founders of Policing Joy, a film organization focused on social justice through storytelling, won a Facebook SEEN and Blackhouse Foundation Filmmaking Grant Competition to shoot a documentary film about hair bias in schools.

“Policing Joy:  Black Hair Bias in […]

Claudia Triche memorial scholarship honors former department chair

NATCHITOCHES – Friends and family of the late Dr. Claudia Moore Triche, former chair of the Department of Social Work at Northwestern State University, established a scholarship in her memory that will benefit a student pursuing a degree in social work.

Triche was a native of Shreveport who graduated from NSU with a degree in social […]

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