This Is Nicholls
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
THIS IS NICHOLLS NICHOLLS PRIDE POINTS • EIGHTY PERCENT of nurses and teachers in the Bayou Region are Nicholls graduates. • Nicholls offers Louisiana’s only BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN CULINARY ARTS. Our Chef John Folse Culinary Institute is dedicated to the preservation and advancement of the rich Creole and Cajun culinary heritage of Louisiana. • The Nicholls College of Business Administration offers the country’s only MARITIME MANAGEMENT DEGREE CONCENTRATION completely funded and developed by industry leaders. • Nicholls nursing students continue to surpass state and national averages with 95 PERCENT OF 2015 GRADUATES PASSING the NCLEX-RN exam on the first try. icholls State University, located in Thibodaux, La., delivers accredited degree programs and • The university’s PETROLEUM comprehensive learning experiences to prepare students for regional and global professions. N ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY AND SAFETY The spirited, family-oriented campus serves more than 6,000 students and offers more than 100 MANAGEMENT PROGRAM is the only one bachelor’s and master’s degree programs, 90-plus student organizations and 14 Division I athletic in the country to offer flexible scheduling to teams. meet the needs of offshore employees working As the only university serving the Bayou Region, Nicholls helps meet local workforce needs 7-on/7-off or 14-on/14-off schedules. by offering distinctive academic programs in culinary arts, maritime management, and petroleum services and safety technology. The university’s most popular majors include business, nursing, • Nicholls is home to the LOUISIANA CENTER education and biology. The university proudly serves a large population of first-generation FOR DYSLEXIA AND RELATED LEARNING college students and has consistently been designated as a Military Friendly School. DISORDERS, which provides comprehensive services to students with dyslexia. LOCATION • Nicholls biology students and faculty have grown, harvested and planted more than ocated in “Cajun Country,” Nicholls lies in the heart of the Mississippi River delta. The 287- 16,000 plants to help restore Louisiana’s acre Thibodaux campus, featuring modern residence halls and an innovative student recreation L coastline. center, is approximately 50 miles west of New Orleans and 60 miles southeast of Baton Rouge. • The SUGAR CANE INSTITUTES attract students from around the world every summer. HISTORY More 1,500 participants representing over 30 he institution first opened its doors on Sept. 23, 1948, as Francis T. Nicholls Junior College countries have benefited from the institutes, Tof Louisiana State University. In 1956, the Louisiana Legislature separated Nicholls from making Nicholls a leader in world sugar LSU, and the former junior college became Francis T. Nicholls State College. In 1970, its name education. changed to Nicholls State University. • Nicholls has a $275 MILLION ANNUAL The university is named in honor of Francis Redding Tillou Nicholls, a native of ECONOMIC IMPACT, helps generate 3,000 Donaldsonville, Louisiana. A West Point graduate and lawyer, Nicholls was a brigadier general in direct jobs and is represented by 10,000-plus the Civil War, a two-time Louisiana governor and chief justice to the Louisiana Supreme Court. voters. He retired to his Thibodaux home in 1911 and died in 1912. • Nicholls hosted the 2016 CARHARTT BASSMASTER COLLEGE SERIES CENTRAL REGION TOURNAMENT, where four Nicholls teams qualified for the national championships. • The Nicholls art department helps preserve and operate the CHAUVIN SCULPTURE GARDENS, which has been named one of the 25 most amazing sculpture gardens in the world. The bayou-side property features 100 folk art sculptures created by recluse artist Kenny Hill. • ARCHIE, PEYTON AND ELI MANNING visit the Nicholls campus each summer, where they host the Manning Passing Academy, which brings in about $2.5 million to the region. GEAUXCOLONELS.COM 71 PRESIDENT BRUCE MURPHY U.S. Army, serving in Germany, Panama and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. He taught leadership as an assistant professor at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and served as a professor of military science and director of the Army Officer Education Program at Vanderbilt University. Murphy continued to build his career in higher education by holding various leadership positions including founding dean of the School of Business at Point Park University in Pittsburgh and founding director of the organizational leadership graduate program and chair of the Walker School of Business at Mercyhurst College in Pennsylvania. Most recently, Murphy was the vice president for academic affairs at Air University in Alabama for eight years before beginning his presidency at r. Bruce T. Murphy became the fifth Nicholls. Dpresident of Nicholls State University Murphy holds five degrees including in January 2014. Now in his third year at a Bachelor of Arts in English from the Nicholls, Murphy is dedicated to enhancing University of California at Berkeley, a Master student opportunity and success, encouraging of Business Administration and a Master of a spirit of innovation, boosting the university’s Science in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, a Master of Arts internationalism, and serving the needs of from Teachers College at Columbia University and a Doctorate in Education from Vanderbilt the region and the state of Louisiana. Under University. He has extensive experience with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools his leadership, Nicholls strives to be the Commission on Colleges, the regional accrediting body for institutes of higher education, and intellectual, economic and cultural heart of the currently serves on its Board of Trustees. Bayou Region. A strong supporter of intercollegiate athletics, Murphy is a former offensive lineman who A native of Encino, California, Murphy started for the championship-winning Crespi Carmelite High School football team. He is married has devoted his entire professional life to the to retired U.S. Army Col. Jeanne Picariello Murphy, a former intercollegiate and international study, practice and teaching of leadership. The athlete who has served on the U.S. Olympic Committee. She was the first woman ever selected to retired lieutenant colonel spent 23 years in the the U.S. Modern Pentathlon Team in 1975 and led the U.S. delegation as the chef de mission for 72 2016 NICHOLLS FOOTBALL ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATION JEAN BOURGEOIS JAMIE BUSTOS KATIE CALLAHAN ZACHARY CARLTON Women’s Athletics/ Director of Director of Assistant Director of Men’s Basketball Secretary Athletic Media Relations Corporate Sponsorships Athletic Media Relations GREG CARRASQUILLO DARRYL DAIGLE EVAN DAUTERIVE ANDREW KEARNEY Strength & Conditioning Coach Associate Athletic Director for Head Athletic Trainer Assistant Athletic Director Budgetary Control for Compliance TYLER KNOWLES GERI LABAT BARBARA NAQUIN DOBEE PLAISANCE Director of Ticket Operations Football Secretary Assistant Athletic Trainer Senior Women’s Administrator and Marketing KIMBERLY REYNOLDS LORI RICHARD CONNIE ROME BRANDON RUTTLEY Faculty Athletics Representative Assistant Athletic Director Business Office Secretary Associate Athletic Director for Academic Services of External Affairs GEAUXCOLONELS.COM 73 ATHLETIC TRAINING icholls State University and Thibodaux Regional Medical Center signed an agreement in September of 2014 which designated the medical center as the official sports Nmedicine provider of Nicholls Athletics. As a part of the agreement, Thibodaux Regional Medical Center’s certified athletic trainers provide sports medicine services to hundreds of Colonel student- athletes during their practices, competitions and games. The medical center also provides services to campus intramural teams as well. Thibodaux Regional Medical Center, a 180-bed acute care facility, is nationally recognized for providing quality care and outstanding service. In addition to providing inpatient and outpatient care, medical center services offered include heart surgery, medical and radiation oncology, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, sports medicine, pulmonology, rheumatology, women’s services, and inpatient and outpatient physical rehabilitation services. Thibodaux Regional’s Sports Medicine Center is the Bayou Region’s first comprehensive sports medicine program and utilizes a team of certified athletic trainers, fellowship-trained sports medicine physicians and orthopedic sports medicine trained physical therapists, to effectively manage injuries and safely return athletes to the game. The center also offers injury prevention programs to assist athletes and coaches with the latest tools and techniques to improve athletic conditioning and performance. EVAN DAUTERIVE BARBARA NAQUIN QUINTON NEASE TYLER TRAHAN MA, LAT, ATC MED, ATC, LAT MS, LAT, ATC, CES MED, LAT, ATC Head Athletic Trainer Associate Athletic Trainer Assistant Athletic Trainer Assistant Athletic Trainer HEAD COACHES TOMMY HAROLD DOBEE PLAISANCE TIM REBOWE RICHIE RILEY Volleyball Coach Women’s Basketball Coach Football Coach Men’s Basketball Coach ANGEL SANTIAGO JAMES SCHILLING SETH THIBODEAUX HEATHER VAN NORMAN Softball Coach Golf Coach Baseball Coach Cross Country/Track & Field Coach 74 2016 NICHOLLS FOOTBALL JOHN L. GUIDRY STADIUM ohn L. Guidry Stadium has been home to the JColonels football team since the school began playing the sport on the intercollegiate level in 1972. The facility is named in honor of former Galliano state representative John L. Guidry who was instrumental