The LSU Board of Supervisors names Wade Rousse as the new president of the LSU system. And in a surprise move, the board also named one of the other finalists, Jim Dalton, as LSU chancellor and executive vice president, overseeing the Baton Rouge campus. In 2012, the roles of the LSU System President and Baton Rouge campus chancellor were combined. With this move, the two roles have been separated once again. Dalton has been provost at the University of Alabama since 2020; he says he’s excited about his move from Tuscaloosa to Baton Rouge.
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Rousse comes to LSU from McNeese, where he currently serves as that school’s president. The vote to hire him was 12 to one, with Laurie Lipsey Aronson casting the lone dissenting vote.
A surprise of a lifetime for a Jefferson Parish English teacher. Sarah Watkins, who teaches eighth grade at Stella Worley Middle School in Westwego, is awarded a 25-thousand dollar Milken Educator Award. The 2009 graduate from Dillard University has been teaching for 16 years. She’s known for having lively academic discussions in her classroom where students are participating in civil debate.
Genetic testing by SeaD Consulting has confirmed that all shrimp sold at the Louisiana Shrimp Festival in New Orleans came from Gulf waters. Founder David Williams started the venture a year ago to test shrimp served in restaurants to find out which ones were serving imported shrimp. He says through his efforts, restaurants are starting to switch to domestic shrimp, and that’s helping the local shrimping industry.