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The University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette, University of Louisiana, ULL, or UL) is a public research university in Lafayette, Louisiana, United States. It has the largest enrollment within the nine-campus University of Louisiana System and the second-largest enrollment in Louisiana, behind only Louisiana State University .
In 2017, a federal endowment tax was enacted in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 in the form of an excise tax of 1.4% on institutions that have at least 500 tuition-paying students and net assets of at least $500,000 per student. The $500,000 is not adjusted for inflation, so the threshold is effectively lowered over time.
Barry Jean Ancelet (born 1951), ULL faculty since 1977; ULL alumni, graduated in 1974; folklorist of Cajun culture and expert of Cajun music and language [1]; Carl A. Brasseaux (born 1951), historian, helped pioneer the field of Cajun history; University of Louisiana at Lafayette professor and director of the Center for Louisiana Studies and the Center for Eco-Tourism, also an alumnus [2]
The university states that "Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns" is the nickname of the school's athletic teams. [2]Founded in 1898 as Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (SLII), the school adopted Bulldogs as a team nickname in 1921.
University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s College of Engineering has created an advanced learning opportunity for STEM students in Lafayette Parish School System.
One cause of increased tuition is the reduction of state and federal appropriations to state colleges, causing the institutions to shift the cost over to students in the form of higher tuition. State support for public colleges and universities has fallen by about 26 percent per full-time student since the early 1990s. [ 12 ]
The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns men's basketball program represents intercollegiate men's basketball at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. [3] The school competes in the Sun Belt Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and play home games at the Cajundome in Lafayette, Louisiana.
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