1960-1969

The decade brought computing to a Cajun campus. In 1961 the school started the first university chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery for students, and in 1962 it offered what is recorded as the first Master of Science degree in computer science in the United States. The old Martin Hall, the school's first building, came down in 1963 and was replaced by the present New Martin Hall. Liberal arts professors began publishing the USL History Series, and athletic facilities kept moving from the main campus to University Commons.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 1.4 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 7.1 mi
  Nearly 10,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp at the south end of Lake Martin, owned by The Nature Conservancy, with a boardwalk and a rookery of egrets, spoonbills and alligators.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 13 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 13 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.

More markers nearby

• 1950-1959 — steps away
• 1930-1939 — steps away
• 1980-1989 — steps away
• 1898-1899 (ULL Walk of Honor) — steps away