Our Lady of the Lake College Profile

Our Lady of the Lake College (OLOL) is an independent Catholic institution located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. The College joined the Association of Franciscan College and Universities (AFCU) in 2007.

Our Lady of the Lake College is common by way of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award accomplice, baccalaureate, and master's tiers. It is a member of the Louisiana Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.

The School of Nursing is actually authorized with the useful resource of the Louisiana State Board of Nursing and holds accreditation from the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission, Inc. It turned into the first faculty within the South to revise its curriculum by means of the use of shortening its utility from three calendar years to 27 consecutive months.

The Clinical Laboratory Sciences Program is general with the useful resource of the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences. The Physical Therapist Assisting Program is regularly occurring through the Commission on Accreditation in Physical Therapy Education of the American Physical Therapy Association. The Radiologic Technology Program is accepted via way of the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology and holds approval from the Louisiana State Radiologic Technology Board of Examiners. The Respiratory Therapy Program is authorised via the Committee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC) in collaboration with the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs. The Surgical Technology Program is time-honored via the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP).

Achievements:

- The College modified into named to the U.S. President's Honor Roll in recognition of its marvelous community provider sports in 2008 and 2009.

- In 2009 it acquired $801,447 of Federal investment for Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students, the most received through any institution inside the State.

- The College and CRNA college have been commemorated to get preserve of a 10 yr accreditation in January 2009 with the aid of way of the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs (accreditation may be provided for durations of two to 10 years).

- Named as the sole company in the State of Louisiana to credential obligatory dementia education.

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