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Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

3/10/2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES ­Dr. Margaret Kilcoyne, director of business programs and assistant professor of business at Northwestern State University, has received two outstanding teaching awards from statewide organizations.

Kilcoyne was honored with the 2005 Outstanding Post-Secondary Business Educator from the Louisiana Association of Business Educators. Those nominated for the award must be a member of LABE and primarily engaged in teaching business at the post-secondary level. If the nominee has dual responsibilities, at least 50 percent of those responsibilities at the major employing institution must be in teaching.

The nominee's contribution may have been made over an extended period of time, but the major impact must have occurred within three years prior to the nomination. Kilcoyne will complete a portfolio and compete regionally at the Southern Business Education Association conference in Franklin, Tenn., in October.

The Louisiana Association of Career and Technical Education (LACTE) also honored Kilcoyne with its Outstanding Career and Technical Educator of the Year Award. Nominees for the award must be a member of LACTE and primarily engaged in teaching business at the post-secondary level. If the nominee has dual responsibilities, at least 50% of those responsibilities at the major employing institution must be in teaching.

The nominee's contribution may have been made over an extended period of time, but the major impact must have occurred within three years prior to the nomination. Kilcoyne will complete a portfolio and compete regionally at the Association of Career and Technical Education (ACTE) Region IV conference in New Orleans in December.

Kilcoyne is a third generation Louisiana educator. Her grandmother, Polly Hicks, and mother, Polly Lou Sepulvado, were both teachers. Sepulvado was a business educator for 30 years and served as the president of the Louisiana Vocational Association (now LACTE) in 1978-79. She also won the Outstanding Service Award for Business and Office Education in 1978.

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