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Doctor of Philosophy in communications from the University of South Florida in 2012
Letlow’s Ph.D. was completed in 2011, not 2012. Both the University of South Florida dissertation record and the U.S. House’s official biography list 2011 as the year.
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The claim gives the wrong year for Julia Letlow’s doctorate.
USF’s own dissertation repository for Letlow’s dissertation, Giving Meaning to Grief: The Role of Rituals and Stories in Coping with Sudden Family Loss, lists Graduation Year: 2011 and identifies it as her Ph.D. dissertation in Communication.
An official U.S. House of Representatives biography likewise says: “Ph.D., University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla., 2011.”
Because both a primary university record and an official congressional biography place her doctoral degree in 2011, the article’s statement that she earned it in 2012 is incorrect.
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- Giving Meaning to Grief: The Role of Rituals and Stories in Coping with Sudden Family Loss — USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Author Julia Janelle Barnhill, University of South Florida ... Graduation Year 2011 ... Document Type Dissertation ... Degree Ph.D.
- LETLOW, Julia | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives
B.A., University of Louisiana, Monroe, La., 2002; M.A., University of Louisiana, Monroe, La., 2005; Ph.D., University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla., 2011.
In 2020, she was a finalist for the presidency of ULM.
Letlow was a semifinalist, not a finalist, in ULM’s 2020 presidential search. ULM’s official search pages list her among the semifinalists and name three different finalists.
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This statement overstates Julia Letlow’s status in the 2020 University of Louisiana Monroe presidential search.
ULM’s official May 19, 2020 search announcement lists Julia Letlow among the seven semifinalists. A later official ULM announcement dated August 21, 2020 names the three finalists as Katrice Albert, Ronald Berry, and Jeannine Kahn. Letlow is not on that finalists list.
Because the university’s own search records place Letlow at the semifinalist stage rather than the finalist stage, the article’s statement that she was a finalist is incorrect.
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- UL System advances finalists for ULM presidency
The finalists are: Katrice Albert ... Ronald Berry ... Jeannine Kahn ... We are appreciative of all six semifinalists for engaging in the process.
- 7 semifinalists advance in ULM presidential search
The semifinalists are: ... Julia Letlow, Executive Assistant to the President for External Affairs and Community Outreach, University of Louisiana at Monroe