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LETU STUDENTS PRAY THE LOOP
During homecoming festivities in
April, LETU students came together
around the loop on the Longview
campus to unite in prayer for God’s
direction, protection and will for
LeTourneau University.
LONGVIEW MAYOR APPOINTS
LUNSFORD TO TASK FORCE
LETU President Dr.
Dale A. Lunsford
was chosen by
Longview Mayor
Jay Dean to lead an
I-20 Task Force to
identify methods to
draw more visitors
into Longview from the interstate
that passes through the south side
of the city. Lunsford served as the
chairman of the Longview Chamber
of Commerce for 2012. He has been
outspoken in support for renovation
of the city’s entrances from the
interstate since he became the
university’s president in 2007.
TEACHER EDUCATION GAINS ACSI
ACCREDITATION
LETU’s School of Education has been
recognized among outstanding
colleges and universities that train
educators for private, Christian
schools, following its recent
recommendation for accreditation
by a visiting team of the Association
of Christian Schools International.
ACSI is the world’s largest community
of Christian educators dedicated to
providing a Christ-centered education.
LETU ATHLETIC DIRECTOR ELECTED
TO LEAD NCAA MEMBERSHIP
LETU Athletic Director
Terri Deike was elected
the 2013 chair of
the NCAA Division
III Membership
Committee, the largest
division in the nation
with 453 member schools.
LETU SPRING ENROLLMENT
MARKS RECORD AGAIN
LETU’s traditional undergraduate
enrollment of new, transfer, and
former students is the highest in the
last decade for a spring semester.
International students are also at
record levels, totaling 100. Retention
rate for first-time-in-college students
from Fall 2012 to Spring 2013 was 95
percent, one of the highest retention
rates ever.
LETU COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
TEAM EARNS HONORABLE MENTION
LETU computer science students
competed in the University
of Chicago’s 2013 Invitational
Programming Contest and won
honorable mention even against stiff
competition from universities like
Stanford, MIT and Columbia with
graduate programs. The contest was
only open to teams who already
qualified for the 2013 ICPC World
Finals, which the LETU team qualified
for last year. Pictured from left are
Daniel Rothfus, Terry Penner and
Micah Shennum.
LETU NAMES NEW NURSING DEAN
Dr. Kimberly Quiett will
become the first dean
of LETU’s proposed
School of Nursing,
pending Texas State
Board approval. Quiett
is working now to move
LETU’s proposed nursing program
through the application and approval
process with the State Board and the
SACSCOC. The proposed school will
enable LETU to offer its own Bachelor
of Science in Nursing.
LETU ‘E-WEEK’ ATTRACTS 130
Nearly 130 participating high school
and middle school students from East
Texas attended LETU’s E-week event
to engage in a variety of engineering
activities, including modeling and
design labs. The goal was to teach
students what engineers do and to
encourage them to pursue careers in
engineering.
LETU NAMES NEW BUSINESS DEAN
Dr. Bruce A. Bowman
will become LETU’s
new dean of the
School of Business,
effective July 1.
Bowman was an
academic dean at Northern Virginia
Community College and Norwich
University and has held senior
corporate positions in the defense
industry.
SPRING BREAK IN GUATEMALA
Seven engineering students traveled
to Antigua, Guatemala, during spring
break to test wheelchair prototypes
with children at two orphanages and
at Hope Haven mission agency to get
input for improvements. The students
are developing a new wheelchair for
children in developing nations as part
of the Frontier Wheelchairs Senior
Design Team, under the direction of
assistant professor Norm Reese.
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