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Students allowed to repeat 12 hours

By Joshua Bergeron October 17, 2012

The negative results of classes blown off in freshman year may soon nearly disappear. Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Stuart Bell officially approved the Grade Exclusion Policy on Monday, which...

Plagiarism services proposed at meeting

By Joshua Bergeron October 14, 2012

Students may soon be held to a higher standard of academic honesty if a Faculty Senate resolution is passed. At the University’s October Faculty Senate meeting, German professor Gundela Hachmann...

Increasing premiums add to faculty woes

By Joshua Bergeron October 10, 2012

Faculty and staff may see a reduction in their total compensation packages due to an increase in insurance premiums. On Jan. 1, the increased premiums officially go into effect for insurance offered...

Cars fill the C Zone lot adjacent to Lockett Hall Monday, Oct. 8, 2012.

Faculty, staff to receive more night parking

By Ben Wallace October 8, 2012

The Faculty Senate has asked for better parking options for several years now, and beginning Monday, it shall receive some, said Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope. The faculty and staff parking lot...

LSU finance professor Don Chance presents a slideshow in support of changing the University's grading system to a "plus or minus" system on Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012, at the Faculty Senate meeting. Chance proposed the new grading system, which he claims would allow for more accuracy and flexibility in grading.

Plus-minus grading approved, requires further review

By Joshua Bergeron October 2, 2012

After an Ad Hoc Committee report, a Student Government report and 10 months of debate, the University’s Faculty Senate voted 26-14-4 in favor of a plus-minus grading scale Tuesday during its monthly...

Regents approves roundabout project on Dalrymple

By Joshua Bergeron September 27, 2012

As its monthly meeting Tuesday, the Louisiana Board of Regents approved a measure to create a traffic roundabout on campus as well as the current year operating budget for all higher education institutions...

Faculty Senate President Kevin Cope opens the September Faculty Senate Meeting in the Capital Chamber in the Student Union on Wed., Sept. 26, 2012.

Faculty Senate resolutions go through long process

By Joshua Bergeron September 26, 2012

While the plus-or-minus grading resolution has garnered more attention than most legislation passed though the University’s Faculty Senate, all bills and resolutions introduced to the group go through...

Athletic, academic spending gap grows

By Chris Grillot September 26, 2012

While Southeastern Conference athletics spending soars above academic spending and states continue to slash budgets, the LSU Athletics Fund Transfer Policy should be seen as a positive step forward and...

Alternate grading scale may be passed

By Joshua Bergeron Wilborn Nobles III September 25, 2012

After a year of debate, Faculty Senate will decide if professors should have the option to tack a plus or minus sign on the ends of their students' grades.  It all comes to a head on Tuesday. Introduced...

Joe Alleva, Vice Chancellor and Director of Athletics, speaks at the Board of Supervisors meeting on Friday, Sept. 7, 2012.

Athletics to give University $36 Million

By Chris Grillot September 9, 2012

LSU Athletics will give the University $36 million over the next five years to assist in the University’s battle against budget cuts in a policy unanimously approved by the Board of Supervisors on...

Board of Supervisors proposal could have Athletics Department give $7.2 million a year to University

By Staff Writer September 6, 2012

The LSU System Board of Supervisors will deliberate Friday whether LSU Athletics should help tackle the University’s ongoing budget crisis. If passed, the LSU Athletics Fund Transfer Policy would...

William Jenkins currently serves as interim LSU system president and chancellor.

Jenkins, interim system president and chancellor, on why he’s back at LSU

By Staff Writer August 25, 2012

From a farm in South Africa to the Louisiana swamps, Interim System President and Chancellor William “Bill” Jenkins has done it all when it comes to higher education, and most of it fell into...