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Using materials from the vast university archives in the Edith Garland Dupré Library, Drs. Zachary G. Stein and Michael S. Martin trace the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's dynamic history. The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette) welcomed its first classes in 1901. Originally a vocational school, the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute, it has since grown in physical size from a small parcel of former farmland to a campus of more than 1,300 acres and a student population of a handful of students to over 19,000 enrollees. Under the leadership of six presidents across more than 120 years, UL Lafayette's students and faculty have overcome devastating adversities and ushered in dynamic changes. They provided relief amid the Great Flood of 1927, built military training programs during World War II, and developed among the nation's earliest computer science labs and classes. Dozens of Black students made history in 1954 by being the first cohort to desegregate a previously all-white public college in the Deep South. Today, as an R1 institution, UL Lafayette continues to expand its reach through pathbreaking research, technological and environmental innovation, and dedication to its region's unique cultures and history.

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Zachary G. Stein is associate professor and assistant dean of technical services at Edith Garland Dupré Library at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Moving to Louisiana in 2016, he began his career as digitization archivist and then head of special collections at the Library, a position he served for six years. He is involved with various organizations, including the American Library Association, the Louisiana Library Association, and the Society of Southwest Archivists. Michael S. Martin is professor and head of the Department of History, Geography, and Philosophy at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. An alumnus of the University, he has taught there since 2003. Martin also serves as managing editor for the state's quarterly academic historical journal, Louisiana History, and is a lifetime fellow of both the Louisiana Historical Association and the Center for Louisiana Studies.

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