Jerry Baudin, vice chancellor for finance and administration services, will retire from the University on Dec. 31, according to a University news release.”We commend and thank Dr. Baudin, who has given many years of dedicated service to LSU as our university’s chief financial officer and for his contributions as a campus leader,” Chancellor Michael Martin said in the news release. “As a long-standing and valued member of the LSU community, he has made a significant contribution to the development of a great university and for that the LSU family is greatly indebted to him.”Baudin came to the University in 1967 as a financial analyst with the Office of Institutional Research in the LSU System Office. Baudin held a number of positions through the years and, in 1987, was promoted to vice chancellor for business affairs and held the position for more than 20 years.”In 1967, Dr. Jim Firnberg provided me with the opportunity to serve LSU,” Baudin said. “What followed was an experience that I will cherish forever.   I’ve worked for and with some of the finest people that have made LSU what it is today. I’m proud to have been part of the team.” Baudin is a native of Bordelonville, La., and received his Master of Business Administration in 1971 and his doctoral degree in accounting in 1982 from LSU, according to the release. Baudin received a bachelor’s degree in accounting in 1963 from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, then Southwestern Louisiana. Eric Monday, associate vice chancellor for finance and administrative services and interim vice chancellor for student life, said the University will put together a hiring committee soon to find a new vice chancellor.Martin said Monday will assume the position of interim vice chancellor designee for finance and administrative services beginning Sept. 1, according to the news release.K.C. White, dean of students, will replace Monday in his interim vice chancellor for student life position starting Sept. 1.—-Contact Mary Walker Baus at [email protected]