Emails inviting students and faculty to participate on the Transition Advisory Team’s subcommittees were sent out Thursday.
The Transition Advisory Team consists of 10 people — none of whom are students or faculty members — tasked with studying the reorganization of the LSU System and reporting to the LSU Board of Supervisors about plans to reorganize the system.
LSU Student Government President Taylor Cox and former LSU SG President J Hudson have been vocal advocates of adding students to the Transition Advisory Team, but administrators have not acquiesced to their requests.
Instead, administrators have insisted students will be able to provide input in the reorganization process via membership on subcommittees. Multiple students were invited to sit on the subcomittees, which range from academics to student experience. Cox was invited to be part of the Technology and Operations subcomittee.
“I saw the list of all the students and faculty who were asked,” Cox said. “It’s the most undiverse group of people. It looked like a bunch of upper-middle class, Caucasians. … We’re all heavily involved overachievers with a good GPA.”
Student Government’s Director of Academic Affairs Thomas Rodgers was invited to sit on the Academic subcommittee, and mass communication senior and Daily Reveille opinion columnist John Parker Ford was invited to sit on the Student Experience subcommittee.
Cox said the list appeared to be 65 names or more of faculty and students from each LSU System campus.
He said the subcommittees will meet a minimum of three times and not all of the meetings will be in Baton Rouge.
The Daily Reveille will continue to report on those invited to become members of the subcommittees as the names become available.
It’s the most undiverse group of people.”
