Student published in academic journal addresses racial disparities in education
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 cla...