Southeastern Louisiana University

Neuerburg to head Southeastern Honors Program

Contact: Rene Abadie

10/17/06

     HAMMOND – Kent Neuerburg, associate professor of mathematics, has been appointed director of Southeastern Louisiana University’s Honors Program.

     Neuerburg, who joined the Southeastern faculty in 1998, will assume administrative duties for the program in the spring 2007 semester.

     Formed in 1979 to provide outstanding students with special courses and curricula, Southeastern expanded the program in 2002 by instituting honors curriculum paths in all degree programs. Currently nearly 300 students are enrolled in the program, which offers students classes of reduced size and a variety of awards for achievement and completion of the honors curricula.

     “We are pleased to have a scholar such as Dr. Neuerburg assume the leadership of Southeastern’s Honors Program,” said Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs John Crain. “We anticipate that he and the Honors Committee will advance a number of new initiatives designed to move the Honors Program to a new level that reflects the academic advancements made at Southeastern over the last several years.”

     “I hope to build on the level of success the Honors Program has achieved in recent years and to continue to attract some of the best students from the region,” Neuerburg said. “Southeastern offers students great opportunities – quality teaching, small class sizes, quality interaction with faculty who are recognized leaders in their disciplines, numerous undergraduate research opportunities, and outstanding cultural activities. The Honors Program is certainly one of those opportunities.”

     Prior to joining Southeastern, Neuerburg taught mathematics at the University of Missouri, Columbia, the University of California, Davis, and Consumnes River College in Sacramento.