After the Board of Supervisors asked her last month to consider becoming the dean of the college she’s structuring, the University announced today that Interim Dean of the College of Education Laura Lindsay will serve as Dean of the College of Human Sciences and Education.
 
This college, announced last semester, will combine the College of Education, School of Social Work, School of Library & Information Science, School of Human Resource Education and Workforce Development, School of Kinesiology and the University Laboratory School. Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Jack Hamilton asked Lindsay at the time of the announcement to oversee the plans for the creation of the college, which is slated to open in July.
 
When the plans for the merger were presented to the LSU System Board of Supervisors last month, several members of the board praised Lindsay’s work on the merger and asked if she would consider leading the college as dean instead of stepping down, as she had planned.
 
“Laura’s leadership and the collaborative work among the departments involved in this reorganization, has moved the establishment of this college from an idea to a reality,” Hamilton said in a news release. “We feel that a year of stabilization as a college will be attractive to the top national candidates as we search for a dean.”
 
See tomorrow’s print edition of the Daily Reveille for more information.
 
 
 
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