NATCHITOCHES – Dr. Adonay Sissay, assistant professor of chemistry, and Dr. Margaret Cochran, professor of ecology and mathematics, opened discussions Saturday as the Louisiana Scholars’ College at Northwestern State University hosted an education summit Feb. 10-11 with students and faculty from Grambling State University’s Earl Lester Cole Honors College. The theme of the forum was “Making Connections, Building Communities.” Students and faculty also heard from Natchitoches Mayor Ronnie Williams, as a keynote speaker, on his work as Natchitoches’ first African-American mayor. Grambling students presented on “How to be a Mogul” and learned about , with their Dean Ellen Smiley, introduced a service-learning project “Water Conservation and Why It Matters.”
