With the help of her humanities professor, senior world languages major Whitney Bourdier transformed one of her class papers into a scholarly article published in a peer-reviewed journal. Bourdier co-published “An Investigation of Student Enrollment Trends and De Facto Segregation in Louisiana K-12 Public Education” in the journal Research Issues in Contemporary Education along with French and Spanish instructor Dr. Jerry Parker. The article was initially written as a paper for Parker’s Humanities 401 class. Bourdier explained that Parker shared a publishing opportunity with the class. “For almost a year, he mentored me. We met regularly and he provided line-by-line edits, encouragement, and guidance on how to strengthen the article to move it from a class paper to a scholarly research article, the norms of conducting research, and what it means to be an active researcher,” she said.