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The Ray P. Authement
Valedictorian Scholarship is available through UL. The Ray P. Authement College of Sciences at UL is named in his honor. UL Lafayette presents the Dr. Ray Authement Excellence in Teaching Award to a faculty member. In 2009, Authement was named the UL Lafayette president-emeritus;
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Authement worked to develop Ph.D. programs in the fields of computer science, mathematics, English, and history. UL Lafayette became the state's second largest university in enrollment - surpassed only by LSU - and the first public university in
Louisiana to obtain a Doctoral II ranking. In 1997, he
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out of being a little country school with limited vision and limited education for its students and into the modern world. And they understood that and supported it. That's very hard to do. There are many campuses that have never been able to get that far down the road.
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Lawrence Authement and the former Elphia Marie Duplantis; both parents were natives of Terrebonne Parish and born in 1904. In 1950, Authement received his bachelor's degree from UL Lafayette. He subsequently procured both a master's degree in 1952 and a
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initiated a drive to increase private endowments to $ 75 million, which made possible the establishment of 20 endowed chairs worth $ 1 million each, 217 endowed professorships, and many scholarships. There is also a "super chair" valued at $ 2 million.
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In spite of all the things he must have put up with in 30-something years, he's still there. ... In a political climate like
Louisiana, he stayed head of a public institution for one-third of a century. He must have been doing something
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In reality though, Authement was like most college presidents a politician but not the kind who places his name on a ballot. He developed close ties to the local political elite, having met on occasion with the late
Lafayette Mayor
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