BEAUMONT, Texas — Lamar University announced its designation as an Opportunity College & University during a press event Wednesday at the Lamar University Welcome Center. The recognition comes as part ...

Lamar University has gone through multiple name changes, but on this day in 1971, its current designation was given. On Aug. 23, 1971, Lamar State College of Technology officially became Lamar ...

Lamar University President Jaime Taylor’s career-long goal to make college education practical just got a major clap on the back from the Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education, ...