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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.

NSU-TV News Service team incorporates bilingual reporting into their broadcasts

NATCHITOCHES – Students in Northwestern State University’s Department of New Media, Journalism and Communication Arts are taking their broadcasting experience to the next level by incorporating bilingual segments to student reporting. Naydu Daza Maya of Cartagena, Colombia, combined her writing and reporting skills with Boyce native Jordan Johnson’s videography and editing expertise to bring a […]

Save the Date – Presidential Investiture will take place Aug. 26

NATCHITOCHES – The investiture for Northwestern State University President Dr. Marcus Jones will take place Friday, Aug. 26 in Natchitoches. The event, which formally installs Jones as the university’s 20th president, will include a ceremony at 11 a.m. in A.A. Fredericks Auditorium and a community reception.  Surrounding the investiture will be student programs, a breakfast […]

Atmos is Bayou Level sponsor for Flavor of Louisiana

Atmos Energy is a Bayou Level ($2,500) sponsor of Flavor of Louisiana, for which they will receive signage, reserved seating for eight, priority parking and media/social media promotion. From left are Mike Mancil, Cristy Bernard, Jill Bankston and Gary Stephens. Flavor of Louisiana will take place at 6 p.m. Friday, April 8 in Prather Coliseum. […]

Maggio’s is vendor/chef for Flavor of Louisiana

Maggio’s is a chef/vendor for Flavor of Louisiana, Northwestern State University’s spring seafood extravaganza and fundraising celebration set to take place at 6 p.m. Friday, April 8 in Prather Coliseum. Maggio’s will have multiple bar stations set up at the food festival and will also be serving their Bloody Mary Oyster Shooters. Pictured from left […]

NSU shows slight drop in enrollment for Spring 2022, but grows in entering freshmen

NATCHITOCHES – Enrollment at Northwestern State University dipped slightly for the Spring 2022 semester, following state and national trends in which multiple disrupting factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic and hurricanes that left parts of Louisiana devastated in 2020 and 2021, played a role.

Enrollment for Spring 2022 is 9,549, a decrease of 5.93 percent from a […]

UL System conference will take place in Natchitoches March 10-11

NATCHITOCHES – Natchitoches and Northwestern State University will host the fifth annual University of Louisiana System’s For Our Future Conference March 10-11. The conference will be held at the Natchitoches Events Center with break-out sessions at Chateau St. Denis.

The conference will draw about 450 participants from the faculty and staff of all nine UL System […]

Alumni invited to donate caps and gowns for upcoming grads

NATCHITOCHES – Northwestern State University graduates are invited to donate NSU caps and gowns for upcoming graduates who may not be able to purchase regalia.

Dr. Jennifer Shaw, a research associate in the Department of Social Work, is coordinating a regalia closet.  The “Gowns for Grads” endeavor aims to help students who are unable to secure […]

Donation pushes BAA Scholarship to full endowment

NATCHITOCHES – The Black Alumni Alliance Scholarship fund at Northwestern State University has been fulfilled thanks to support from Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and a Giving Tuesday pledge. The Fall 1999 Line, the Elusive 18, of Delta Sigma Theta presented a donation to the BAA that fulfilled the BAA’s endowed scholarship at the $10,000 […]

Short film by NSU alum wins top prize at Cane River Film Festival

NATCHITOCHES – A short film by Northwestern State University graduate Hammond Lake took the top prize at the 2022 Cane River Film Festival, along with earning prizes at other film festivals in the U.S. and abroad.   Several other NSU alumni contributed to the creation of “Zoomies,” a comedy/horror film that will be screened locally as […]

Double-feature documentary screening doesn’t look away from difficult subjects

NACHITOCHES: A documentary double-feature promises not to look away from difficult subjects like the history of how the early U.S. government acquired lands and the desperate circumstances of LGBTQ people living in repressive regimes.

“Stories I Didn’t Know follows Irish American Rita searching for a fabled ancestral history revolving around Pike Island, which her family once […]

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