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From left to right: Evelyn Allen, Helmut Schneider,
Dean Robert Sumichrast, Pat Hewlett, Cecil Phillips,
Skip Hughes, and Kay Fontenot
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October 21, 2003
LSU’s Ourso College of Business Administration
has received $22,000 in special departmental grants
from ExxonMobil. Pat Hewlett, vice president and
CIO of ExxonMobil, formally presented the grant
to Dean Robert Sumichrast of the Ourso College
and Cecil Phillips, executive director of the
LSU Foundation, on October 15, 2003.
“ExxonMobil has maintained a steadfast
commitment to higher education, supporting initiatives
and universities that align with the goals and
needs of our company and employees,” said
Mark Chilton of ExxonMobil recruiting and employment.
“With these departmental grants, funds are
specifically directed to those university departments
that are educating the highly-qualified graduates
that ExxonMobil recruits and hires.”
The $22,000 allotted to the Ourso College was
split among three departments; the ISDS department
received $6,000, the accounting department received
$7,000, and the business administration program
received $9,000. ExxonMobil awards these grants
to schools offering degree programs in fields
from which the company recruits, and the success
of recruiting factors into the amount of the grant,
as well as the number of alumni employed at ExxonMobil.
Schools are encouraged to use the these funds
for educational purposes such as scholarships,
visiting speakers, equipment purchases, student
and faculty travel to conventions, and academic
projects.
The Ourso College monies are part of a total
of $86,000 awarded to LSU by ExxonMobil. Other
departments receiving grants include computer
science and engineering.
For more information on the Ourso College of
Business Administration, contact Wendy Osborn
Luedtke at 225/578-8865 or wendy@lsu.edu,
or visit www.bus.lsu.edu.
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