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Loyola students drop a banner the Communications/Music Complex criticizing tuition raises on April 29, 2025. Loyola University New Orleans plans to raise tuition prices for all students.

BREAKING: Students drop a banner criticizing tuition raises

Eloise Pickering, Managing Editor April 29, 2025

Today at noon, right before the window between classes, a group of Loyola students dropped a banner outside of the Communications/Music Complex criticizing tuition raises and advocating for affordable...

The Jesus statue in the Horseshoe stands alone on rainy Nov. 7, 2018. Loyola raised $1.2 million to give bonuses to long-term faculty members.

Loyola raises $1.2 million to help keep long-term faculty

Alana Frank, News Editor April 28, 2025

Loyola University New Orleans announced on April 28 they have raised $1.2 million to give retention bonuses to long-time faculty at a time when concerns about pay, morale, and faculty turnover are prevalent. Loyola...

An empty chair sits in an empty Bobet classroom. Loyola has struggled with faculty retention amidst a lack of financial support.

Faculty Retention at Loyola University: The Struggles of pay, support, and continuity

Dessadra Tezeno, Staff Writer April 28, 2025

According to faculty at Loyola University, retention has reached a critical point, with low pay and inadequate support for tenured and tenure-track faculty becoming significant barriers.  Faculty members...

Loyola, Tulane students protest ICE and Trump administration

Eloise Pickering, Managing Editor April 23, 2025

  Loyola students, Tulane students and community members gathered on Freret Street on Wednesday, April 23 to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Trump administration. The rally...

Loyola students protest Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett

Eloise Pickering, Managing Editor April 7, 2025

Loyola Law School received a special visit Monday morning from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett.  Barrett spoke to a crowd of Loyola students, professors and other community members,...

Courtesy of Thomas A. Chambers

Loyola’s New Provost: Meet Thomas A. Chambers

Lily Bordelon, Staff Writer April 4, 2025

Thomas A. Chambers was appointed as the university’s next provost and senior vice president of academic affairs. Chambers plans to focus on giving the Loyola community the necessary resources they require...

Courtesy of Loyola University New Orleans.

Joseph Duke: The One-Man Band

Callie Honeycutt, Opinion Editor April 4, 2025

Reporter, photographer, assignment editor, News New York Bureau Chief, CBS Director of Recruitment, husband, friend, and professor are just some of the hats that Loyola professor and broadcast journalist...

NOEW brings entrepreneurs to Loyola

NOEW brings entrepreneurs to Loyola

Lily Bordelon April 4, 2025

New Orleans Entrepreneurship Week consisted of panel discussions, entrepreneurship showcases, founder stories, and a career fair aimed at introducing students to multiple connections and insights across...

Graduate student Remus Hebhang-Balan prepares to hit the ball. The men's tennis team was ranked No. 25 in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics polls.

Men’s and women’s tennis preps for final matches

Alana Thompson, Sports Editor April 4, 2025

The Loyola men’s and women’s tennis teams have entered their final stretch of matches in the 2024-25 season.  The women’s team is currently ranked No. 8 in the most recent National Association...

Courtesy of Apple Music

Grande lets the light in via “eternal sunshine deluxe: brighter days ahead”

Francisco Esteves, Digital Director April 4, 2025

When Ariana Grande released “eternal sunshine” last spring, she invited us into her most vulnerable and reflective work yet. It was an album of heartbreak, reckoning, and eventual emotional clarity....

A yearbook photo of the first Black organization on campus "Expression" taken in 1969. Taken from The Maroon Archives.

Loyola honors the founding of Expression, it’s first Black student organization

Matthew Richards, Editor-in-Chief April 4, 2025

In 1968, a group of 25 students got together on Loyola’s campus in the middle of a world of chaos and launched Expression, the first organization composed of mostly Black students in Loyola history.  To...

Photo of the 2025 Bloom Fest schedule outside Monroe Hall.

Loyola hosts inaugural Bloom Festival

Elise Beck, Reviews Editor April 4, 2025

On April 1, 2025, Loyola hosted its first annual Bloom Festival to honor former Loyola student Kendall Daigle, who passed away in 2014 at age 19. Daigle was an English student who adored art and poetry.  The...

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