1. Kemp State of the University Forum Breakfast Held
LSU Shreveport recently held the second Dr. George & Rita Kemp “LSUS
State Of The University” Forum. The informational community event was
Tuesday, October 11, and was held in the University Center Ballroom with
breakfast served.
The forum was created as a way to better inform the community of the
value of the University by enriching its quality of life and advancing its
economic development. The event was funded by The Dr. George A. and
Rita Kemp Endowment for the Public Forum.
Dr. Kyle Pierce addressed the attendees with an uplifting and inspiring
message about students who triumph and motivate others around them. He spoke of his experience with
the Olympic Games and his students who compete.
Chancellor Larry Clark followed Dr. Pierce with a presentation detailing the state of the university with a
focus on new initiatives for the University. Thank you to all that attended!
Career Services Gives Students Tools to Succeed
LSU Shreveport is equipping students
with experiential opportunities and
launching them into real-world
success. With over 30 organizations in
the UC Ballroom last Wednesday,
students and alumni were able to seek
out internships, as well as part-time and
full-time jobs at the fall career fair.
A total of 70 were in attendance at the
fair, 81 percent being students and 19
percent alumni. Of the students, 50
percent were juniors and seniors with
intentions of finding internship or job
leads. The majority of majors
represented were in the computer
science, community health, and
business disciplines. The statistics from
the event show that almost 50% of the businesses were looking for all majors.

2. “It drives home the argument that this isn’t for one program of study it’s really open for everybody and
we hope that more folks will attend the fair in the future,” said Jennie Flynn-McKevitt, the new director of
career services.
Preparing for the fair takes time to research the organizations attending, proofread the resume, and
strengthen the presentation to employers. But at the end of the day, the rewards are well worth the
effort.
“The career fair helps both the exploring students and the internship and job seekers,” Flynn-McKevitt
said. “For exploring students who aren’t really sure what they want to do when they graduate, it helps
them to talk to professionals from a variety of industries to explore career paths they know that they’re
interested in but also to find things that they hadn’t thought of before that actually might be a really good
fit for them. It’s really good for all students to practice presenting themselves to professionals because it
only gets easier the more you do it. Even if freshmen want to come to practice talking to big, scary
professionals, they’re going to do better the next time they come because they’ve been able to say those
words and not have it feel funny when it comes out of their mouths. The internship and job seekers are
why the recruiters come- they want to find talent that they can bring into their organizations.”
Flynn-McKevitt said the benefit of students talking to professionals is that they get insider information
that someone like her might not be able to offer them in one-on-one
appointments and workshops with career services.
“The interesting thing about career fairs is that it is just one tool in the
internship and job search toolbox, so while it is great to have 36
organizations in one room at one time for students to talk to them all, that
might not be a good fit for everybody,” Flynn-McKevitt said. “Some might
be looking to go somewhere else geographically or they found that the
organizations that were there didn’t fit exactly with what they want to go
into.”
Reasons like these are exactly why career services is open to students.
The department offers individual resume and cover letter critiques, one-on-one job and internship search
strategies appointments, and career-related workshops so that students have an understanding of what
resources they can use to execute an effective job search.
“I think the foundation of a good job search is knowing who you are and what you can offer to an
employer,” Flynn-McKevitt said. “So taking the time to sit down, think about, and articulate what your
skills, assets, personality traits, and values are and how they align with the organizations that you’re
hoping get positive attention from can be very helpful. I think a lot of people have ideas about what those
things are about themselves, but not might have the words to express them effectively, so we at career
services can sit down and do assessments that will give students the language to state their intentions in
a compelling way to employers.”
CLICK HERE for more information about career services at LSUS.

3. Abraham Lincoln and International Law Lecture, October 21 at LSUS
Dr. Burrus M. Carnahan will deliver the 33rd annual Abraham Lincoln Lecture on “Lincoln’s Long
Shadow: The President and International Law,” Friday, October 21st at 8:30-9:30 a.m. in the Caddo-
Bossier Room in the University Center bldg. at LSUS. It’s free and open to the public.
A distinguished international lawyer and scholar, Dr. Carnahan teaches at George Washington University
Law School in Washington, DC, as well as serving as a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of
State. He is a retired U.S. Air Force major who served with the JAG Corps and the author of two recent
books: Act of Justice: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the Law of War, and Lincoln on Trial:
Southern Civilians and the Laws of War, both published by the University Press of Kentucky.
William Pederson, professor of political science and American Studies Endowed Chair at LSUS, stated that
“most Americans don’t realize that Lincoln’s administration pioneered the first contribution to the
international law of armed conflict which evolved into the Geneva Conventions.”
The lecture is co-sponsored by the Student Activities Board (SAB) and the International Lincoln Center at
LSUS, the first such Center in the nation that focuses on Lincoln’s legacy abroad. The Lecture series is
named in honor of Frank and Virginia Williams from Rhode Island. Frank Williams is a retired chief
justice of the Rhode Island and his mother-in-law is a graduate of Byrd High School in Shreveport.
Online Master’s in Healthcare Administration Top in the Nation for
Affordability, Again
The online Master’s in Healthcare Administration
offered at LSU Shreveport is rated six out of ten in the
nation for the most affordable online degree that is
specific to each student and can be completed in one
year.
The standing comes from Healthcare Administration
Degree Programs, which provides high-quality, well-
researched rankings and other resources for
individuals considering a career in healthcare
administration.
Additionally, the outstanding MHA program has been
ranked by Best Master’s Degree as having the top one-
year online master’s programs and top low-cost
online master's programs.
LSUS' MHA program prepares students for professional middle and upper management positions within
health care institutions. The program consists of 10 graduate courses covering a broad range of
administrative topics. Coursework may be pursued on either a full-time or part-time basis.
Qualified students may enroll in the MHA program during any semester-spring, summer, or fall-and
productively pursue coursework, which is delivered exclusively online through LSU Shreveport's Moodle
course delivery system.
The MHA program is accredited by AACSB International-the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of
Business-the leading accreditation agency for business schools in the United States.

4. The ranking was created using information from the National Center for Education Statistics' College
Navigator database and the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education website.
Data from the number of MHA degrees conferred in the 2014-2015 academic year and the average annual
tuition rate were also used to configure the rankings.
The Best Master’s Degrees’ mission is to help prospective graduate students make informed decisions
about what kind of degree to pursue and where to study, focusing on providing rankings and profiles of
degree programs across a variety of the most common master’s degree areas.
To see the Healthcare Administration Degree Program ranking in its entirety, CLICK HERE.
To see the Best Master’s Degree ranking, CLICK HERE.
To find out more about the fantastic MHA program, visit the LSUS website.
Food Drive
The Department of Human Resources hosts a food drive as a LSUS service project each
year. Items will be collected for the NWLA Food Bank through October 31, 2016. Our
goal is 2000 pounds of food. That’s a TON! Every 1.2 pounds of food donated provides
one meal. The top NWLA Food Bank “wish list” items are: canned meat, peanut butter,
dried beans, rice, pasta, canned veggies, canned fruit, cereal, flour and sugar. Bins will
be delivered to each building on campus this week. Donated food will be delivered to
the Food Bank during the first part of November in time for Thanksgiving. Additional
details will be sent soon!
1. LSUS Career Fair. Jennie Flynn-McKevitt, our new Director of Career Services, distributed
information to you concerning the success of our recent LSUS Career Fair. Our university’s location in
the heart of a major urban region provides us a competitive advantage in our preparing and assisting
our students to secure a valuable internship and/or good career opportunity. Please encourage your
students to take advantage of the many great program and support opportunities offered by our
Career Services Office. Jennie and I are discussing the creation of a one-hour elective careers course
that we would team teach, possibly to be offered as early as this spring.
The course would likely involve speakers on leadership/careers and
paired mentors for students.
2. Books to Ghana. Emmanuel Clottey is pictured with some of the
gathered books shipped from LSUS to the University of Health and Allied
Science (UHAS), Ghana. The book donation was in pursuit of the
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between LSUS and UHAS last
year. There are hopes to send both faculty and students over to Ghana in
the near future.

5. 3. Times Article. This past Thursday the Shreveport Times, in conjunction with October being Breast
Cancer Awareness Month, ran a beautiful guest article from LSUS staff member Kim Henninger
concerning her personal battle with breast cancer. I encourage you to READ HERE.
4. Facilities/Broken Stuff. This Friday, we will welcome Joseph LaCour as our new Director of
Facilities. This is an important campus leadership position and we are pleased that Joe is joining our
team. Skip Harper has been an outstanding Interim Director for us. Thank you, Skip. A big challenge
for our Director of Facilities is to help us find parts and/or fix aged equipment. Right now we are
searching for parts for the water heater for the H&PE Building swimming pool and waiting for an
elevator repair service to find the electrical short that has closed down the elevator in the
Administration Building. For good news, we have just received a green light to go forward with final
planning for the future home of the Success Center in the James S. Noel Memorial Library.
Emergency funds have been approved for a new roof for our library. We are still waiting to know
when the actual work will begin.
5. Personal Thanks To... Kenna Franklin, Director of the
LSUS Office of Multicultural Affairs, for her valuable
insights and thoughts concerning diversity presented to
students on Monday during my first Chancellor Speaker
Series presentation for this semester. Thanks also to
Kyle Pierce who shared great stories concerning the
Olympics and our LSUS Weightlifting Team at the Kemp
State of the University Forum. Finally, thank you to
George & Rita Kemp for the Forum and to the many
LSUS faculty and staff members who attended it. Much
appreciated.