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He worked to increase the quality and the compensation of the faculty. Under Walker ULM added more than a dozen academic buildings and residence halls to the campus.<ref name=walker/> These structures included Garrett, Hanna, Sugar, and Strauss halls, Schulze Dining Hall, the Business Administration Building, the Band Building, Sandel Library, Fant-Ewing Coliseum, Heard Tennis Stadium, Brown Stadium, Malone Stadium (opened 1978), the Lake C. Oxford Natatorium (completed in 1978), several residence halls, and the Anna Gray Noe Alumni Center, named for the wife of former [[Governor]] James Albert Noe, Sr. (1890-1976).<ref name=builder/>
He worked to increase the quality and the compensation of the faculty. Under Walker ULM added more than a dozen academic buildings and residence halls to the campus.<ref name=walker/> These structures included Garrett, Hanna, Sugar, and Strauss halls, Schulze Dining Hall, the Business Administration Building, the Band Building, Sandel Library, Fant-Ewing Coliseum, Heard Tennis Stadium, Brown Stadium, Malone Stadium (opened 1978), the Lake C. Oxford Natatorium (completed in 1978), several residence halls, and the Anna Gray Noe Alumni Center, named for the wife of former [[Governor]] James Albert Noe, Sr. (1890-1976).<ref name=builder/>
The then NLU became the largest university in North Louisiana in terms of both enrollment and state appropriations.<ref name=obit/> Among the universities under the Louisiana Higher Education Board of Trustees, NLU had the greatest percent of faculty holding terminal degrees and more nationally accredited academic programs.<ref name=obit/>
The then NLU became the largest university in North Louisiana in terms of both enrollment and state appropriations. Among the universities under the Louisiana Higher Education Board of Trustees, NLU had the greatest percent of faculty holding terminal degrees and more nationally accredited academic programs.<ref name=obit/>
In 1961, under Walker's leadership ULM offered its first doctoral degree, the Ph.D. in pharmacy. The Ed.D. (since renamed Ph.D.) in education followed in 1967.<ref name=builder/>
In 1961, under Walker's leadership ULM offered its first doctoral degree, the Ph.D. in pharmacy. The Ed.D. (since renamed Ph.D.) in education followed in 1967.<ref name=builder/>