Yesterday, current University executive vice president and provost Stuart Bell became the sole, official nomination for a position of chancellor at the University of Alabama.
Bell was recommended by Robert...
The LSU Faculty Senate had an eventful semester, passing resolutions on everything from environmental quality to free speech.
As its first piece of legislation for spring 2015, the Faculty Senate approved...
LSU students, faculty and community members took to the state capitol Thursday to protest potential budget cuts to higher education at the "Make the Change March the Capitol" rally.
The rally aims...
While much work was completed during the Louisiana Board of Regents April meeting in the Claiborne Building on Wednesday morning, it was clear that board members’ minds were across the street at...
The LSU Stephenson Disaster Management Institute is partnering with California-based computer networking security and resiliency company Ixia in a joint Cyber Security Initiative.
In March, SDMI announced...
A 20-year-old Alabama woman left the United States to join ISIS, an Islamic extremist organization, according to a report by Buzzfeed.
Various actions by the organization, such has the beheadings of Ethiopian...
In the melting pot of cultures its colleges and universities educate students from some of the most diverse backgrounds.
But sometimes those cultures don’t meld smoothly. International Fusion, hosted...
The Faculty Senate again joined in the statewide conversation concerning higher education budget cuts.
Resolution 15-10, “Comprehensive Approaches to Higher Education Funding,” introduced at...
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a three-part series dealing with faculty research and budget cuts to Louisiana higher education.
Each school year, countless University researchers...
As students from across Louisiana showed up at the Capitol on Wednesday to support higher education funding, turnout from the flagship campus was noticeably weaker than the rest.
Students were encouraged...
Senators Jack Donahue, R-Mandeville, and Conrad Appel, R-Metairie, announced Wednesday their intent to change TOPS awards in the upcoming legislative session.
Senate Bill 48 will keep the TOPS award amount...
As budget cuts threaten Louisiana colleges and universities, many are concerned with how the state’s institutions will match up with others around the nation.
U.S. News and World Report released...
