The LSU Board of Supervisors passed the 2013-2014 Operating Budget which included pay raises for faculty and unclassified employees on Friday, September 6.
The raises are the first system-wide salary increases in four years. LSU President F. King Alexander announced the raises on July 26.
In a presentation at the meeting, Board members found that 69 percent of the operating budget is spent on personnel services.
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Stuart Bell said deans will be given 4 percent of employee’s base salaries, and they will distribute the increases based on cumulative merit.
The Board also approved Personnel Actions, or the salaries of all employees earning over $125,000.
Additionally, Chairman Robert Yaborough and Chairman-Elect Anne Duplessis were sworn in at the meeting.
Yarborough will be member-at-large until June 1, 2014.
Yarborough thanked former chairman Hank Danos, his family and Board members by encouraging them for the year to come.
Board members also thanked Danos for his work as chairman for 21 months.
In an effort to consolidate their educational and outreach efforts, the Board also approved the administrative consolidation of the LSU Agricultural Center and College of Agriculture.
Alexander said this consolidation will help coordinate the workforce and research demands of the state.
“We have two great staffs and two great faculties, but in the past they have no been as coordinated as they could be,” Bell said.
Now faculty, staff and students of the AgCenter and the College of Agriculture will work together to consolidate over a nine-month process overseen by Alexander.

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LSU President F. King Alexander attends a Board of Supervisors meeting Friday, September 6, 2013 in the LSU Systems Building.