Student Life
As of 2004, the university enrolled 905 undergraduate and 107 graduate students. Fifty-nine percent of the first-year students came from the state of Louisiana, while 3 percent came from outside the United States. The median composite ACT score of incoming students was 26. Full-time faculty numbered 96, 94 percent of whom held a terminal degree in their field.
Centenary hosts six social fraternities and sororities. For the women there is Chi Omega and Zeta Tau Alpha. For the men there is Theta Chi, Kappa Alpha Order, Kappa Sigma, Tau Kappa Epsilon, and Alpha Phi Alpha, who has a joint charter from Centenary and Louisiana State University in Shreveport. The school hosts chapters of several academic honor organizations, including Sigma Alpha Iota, Omicron Delta Kappa, Alpha Chi, Kappa Pi, and Sigma Tau Delta.
Radio station KSCL 91.3FM broadcasts from the campus, a progressive community radio station dedicated to community events and alternative music, from college rock and jazz to local Cajun music and zydeco.
The Conglomerate, Centenary's independent press, is a weekly publication that circulates 20 issues per academic year. The paper is staffed entirely by students, and is paid for by student fees and advertisement. Originally called The Maroon and White, the paper changed its name to The Conglomerate in 1923.
The Centenary Film Society is a student-led organization under faculty advisory that is dedicated to introducing both independent and foreign films to the student body as well as the surrounding community.
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