Tagged: lsu

Pages

Higher Education
10:47 am
Wed February 6, 2013

LSU Shreveport to showcase new degree offerings

LSU Shreveport will host an open house on Feb. 7 to showcase its new degree offerings made possible through a partnership with the LSU flagship campus. It’s part of a plan to improve student enrollment and retention at LSUS, and provide more higher education offerings to Shreveport-Bossier.

Read more
Latest News
3:05 pm
Mon February 4, 2013

LSU Ex-Staffer Says She Was Fired For Report

An LSU faculty member claims she was fired after reporting what she called the School of Art's theft of more than $75,000 from students.

In Margaret Herster's lawsuit filed in state District Court, the digital art instructor says the art program illegally charged students course fees that hadn't first been approved by the Legislature as required by law.

Read more
WRKF
5:00 pm
Fri February 1, 2013

Les Miles Gets a Raise

 

LSU's governing board has approved a $549,000 annual pay raise for football coach Les Miles.

The change has bumped Miles' salary to $4.3 million a year and extended his contract through the 2019 season.

Read more
WRKF
10:04 am
Fri February 1, 2013

LSU Board of Supervisors Garners National Attention

Originally published on Fri February 1, 2013 3:04 pm

A report  in the Chronicle of Higher Education detailed a letter received by LSU’s Board of Supervisors. A national organization that monitors academic freedom at colleges and universities shook their finger at what they called the mistreatment of faculty at LSU.


Read more
WRKF
6:48 am
Thu January 31, 2013

Student Surveys Reveal More LSU Grads Staying In State

Originally published on Fri February 1, 2013 8:50 am

At the start of the Louisiana Smart Growth Summit in November, keynote speaker Mitchell J. Silver – who works for the Department of City Planning in Raleigh, North Carolina – gave his audience some constructive criticism:

“Baton Rouge, you’re not keeping your young people. They're leaving," said Silver.


Read more
Higher Education
7:00 pm
Wed January 9, 2013

LSU Reorganization Advisory Panel Begins Its Work

An advisory panel that will offer guidance to the LSU System board about ways to reorganize the system and its campuses has begun its work.

The 10-person group, which held its first meeting Tuesday, is working on a tight timeline, expected to provide its first recommendations to the Board of Supervisors in March.

The Board of Supervisors is merging the jobs of system president and chancellor of the flagship campus in Baton Rouge as part of a planned revamp of the multi-campus university system.

Read more
College Basketball
11:59 am
Tue January 8, 2013

LSU-Shreveport, Lady Tigers Named Players of the Week

Brandon Davis of LSU-Shreveport and LSU Lady Tiger Danielle Ballard have been named the Louisiana Sports Writers Association's college basketball state players of the week.

Davis had a huge double double in the Pilot's win over Huston Tillotson, while Ballard had 57 points in LSU's 2-1 week for the women.

Pages