State of OLLU: Growing and Bright

To understand the present, it often helps to examine the past. In this spirit, President Jane Ann Slater, CDP, PhD., guided an audience of community partners and business leaders through a brief history of Our Lady of the Lake University Wednesday in Main Building as a prelude to her State of the Lake address. In the early 1900s, the University served as a college that trained students to become teachers. At the urging of the local archbishop, OLL in 1942 started the first school of social work in Texas. As the city swelled with working adults who needed degrees, the University in 1978 started the area’s first Weekend College. Thirty six years later, OLLU provides an array of much-in-demand undergraduate and graduate programs. “We’re known nationally for our programs of excellence,” President Slater said. Among the examples: “Every year we review about 300 candidates for a master’s in Communications and Learning Disorders at the Jersig School but we can only take about 24.”