NEWS RELEASE

Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

12/13/2002

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES-Dr. Larry E. Monk has been named interim executive director of Northwestern State University's Leesville/Fort Polk campus.

Monk has been a faculty member on the Leesville/Fort Polk campus for 19 years. He has been an instructor of education since 1999, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in education and educational leadership. From 1981 until 1996, he was an adjunct instructor, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in computer science, education, educational leadership and educational psychology.

Monk was a teacher at West Leesville Elementary and Leesville High School before being named Vernon Parish's curriculum director in 1981. In 1988, he was selected as assistant superintendent for curriculum, instruction, in-service and professional personnel. Monk held that position until 1999.

"My top priority will be increasing enrollment on the Leesville-Fort Polk campus," said Monk. "I also want to increase services to the community."

Monk said the campus has recently added new faculty to its nursing program. Two nurses have been hired, which will allow up to 27 students to enroll in nursing clinicals. An additional nursing faculty member has also been hired.

"The nursing program on our campus is a tremendous benefit to our community. It is a program on the rise," he said.

Monk would also like to see an alternate teacher certification program implemented to assist the Vernon and Beauregard Parish school systems.

An alumnus of Northwestern, Monk received a bachelor's degree, a master's in business education and distributive education and a doctorate in secondary teaching, supervision and administration from NSU. He has done additional post-doctoral studies at UCLA, Peabody Teacher's College of Vanderbilt University and Northeast Louisiana University.

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