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21-06-2025
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LSU picks search committee members to find its next president
LSU's Memorial Tower on Monday, March 20, 2023, on Tower Drive in Baton Rouge. (Matthew Perschall for Louisiana Illuminator) A search committee has been assembled to find LSU's next president. LSU is searching for a replacement for William Tate, who led both its Baton Rouge flagship campus and the LSU System that also includes medical schools in New Orleans and Shreveport, a New Orleans dental school and satellite institutions in Shreveport, Alexandria and Eunice. Tate departed Baton Rouge to become the leader of Rutgers University in New Jersey. Earlier this year, two board members confirmed to the Illuminator there is ongoing discussion over whether LSU will hire a system president and a separate chancellor for the its main campus. The school's news release announcing search committee members did not indicate whether there would be a separate search for a chancellor. LSU combined the two roles in 2012. Matt Lee, the dean of LSU's College of Agriculture, is serving as interim president. LSU Board of Supervisors chairman Scott Ballard announced the following list of individuals have been appointed to the 2025 LSU Presidential Search Committee, including himself as a member: Lee Mallett, LSU Board of Supervisors vice chairman Valencia Sarpy Jones, LSU Board of Supervisors past chair Rémy Voisin Starns, LSU Board of Supervisors past chair James Williams, LSU Board of Supervisors past chair John Carmouche, LSU Board of Supervisors Blaise Zuschlag, LSU Board of Supervisors Ben Bordelon, Bollinger Shipyards president and CEO Clarence Cazalot, LSU Foundation Board of Directors Paul Coreil, LSU Alexandria chancellor Greg Feirn, LCMC Health CEO E.J. Kuiper, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System president & CEO Pete November, Ochsner Health CEO Roger Odgen, LSU Foundation Board of Directors Emily Otken, LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport student, former LSU Board of Supervisors student member Kenneth Schafer, LSU Boyd professor and Ball Family distinguished professor Ryan Theriot, Former LSU baseball player Daniel Tirone, LSU A&M Faculty Senate president, associate professor Bill Windham, Shreveport-Bossier businessman Ballard told the Illuminator recently the board he predicts would work over the next six months or so to conduct a nationwide search for Tate's replacement. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
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26-03-2025
- Business
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Board of Regents recommends moving beleaguered University of New Orleans back to LSU System
The sun shines brightly on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, above the University of New Orleans entrance sign on Lakeshore Drive. (Matthew Perschall for Louisiana Illuminator) The state's higher education oversight board unanimously voted Wednesday to recommend moving the University of New Orleans, which has struggled with enrollment and finances, back into the LSU System. Legislation is required to finalize the move, which would reverse action taken 14 years ago to place UNO into the University of Louisiana System. The Louisiana Board of Regents' recommendation comes after Louisiana's top two state lawmakers asked members in February to study the feasibility of the move. 'I look forward to reviewing the findings and having further discussions with my colleagues on the board on how the LSU enterprise can welcome UNO back into the family,' LSU Board Chairman Scott Ballard said in a statement to the Illuminator. The Board of Regents recommended forming a transition team to steer the move and hiring a third-party firm for an in-depth audit. In addition to legislative approval, the move would require approval from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), the accrediting body for both UNO and LSU. The university's possible return to LSU's control is in response to UNO's acute budget crisis. The school faces a $10 million budget shortfall and has implemented a spending freeze, layoffs and staff furloughs in an attempt to make ends meet. UNO administrators have kept open the possibility of further layoffs and furloughs. The university's budget crisis is largely tied to enrollment. The school had an enrollment of around 17,000 before Katrina, with an immediate drop to around 6,000. For the fall 2024 semester, its total student body was 6,488. At the time of the system switch in 2011, UNO alumni and boosters applauded the plan, as many felt the university was overshadowed in the LSU System. This is a developing story. Check back for more details. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
