McNeese is helping incoming freshmen adjust to college life. Andrew Greenstein reports.
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The preseason AP Top 25 poll was released today and the LSU Tigers are ranked in the top 10. Jeff Palermo has the story…
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Freshman year in college can be very daunting –and McNeese is helping freshmen make the adjustment with its new First-Year Experience program. Director Jacqueline Clark says the program offers support to more than one-thousand new students..
Clark says the traditional two-day Cowboy Camp orientation is a big part of the First-Year Experience.
The First-Year Experience program is funded for five years with a 2.2-million-dollar grant from the Department of Education, and Clark says a portion of that money goes towards hiring student mentors.
Students move in August 21st, and classes begin August 25th.
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The Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office releases a report that finds Medicaid paid nearly ten-million dollars to healthcare organizations for 1,072 beneficiaries who were deceased. The report covers February 2019 to March of this year and the review was conducted to further the goals of the Governor’s Fiscal Responsibility Program. State auditor Chris Magee on how they found out these beneficiaries were dead…
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Magee says they have recommended to the Louisiana Department of Health to used third-party data sources in their effort to make sure beneficiaries of Medicaid have not passed away…
Magee says L-D-H has accepted their recommendation on how to improve its process in identifying and removing Medicaid coverage for beneficiaries who are deceased…
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LSU running back JT Lindsey is suspended from the team until his accessory to murder charge is resolved. Lindsey is accused of harboring two murder suspects in his apartment style dorm. Tiger Rag Executive Editor Todd Horne says a Baton Rouge TV station reports U.S. Marshals found multiple guns in his dorm room…
Lindsey’s attorney says the former star running back at Alexandria Senior High was unaware the two teenagers staying at his dorm were wanted for murder. In the meantime, Lindsey can not practice with the team and Horne says it’s likely he will not play this season…
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Lindsey’s suspension leaves LSU with just three scholarship running backs on the roster. Horne says a former high school football quarterback from Lafayette Christian could be used as a ball carrier out of the backfield this season…
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U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon was in Baton Rouge this morning to kickoff her returning education to states tour. Secretary McMahon visited Jefferson Terrace Academy and participated in a roundtable conversation on Louisiana’s literacy progress. McMahon says she’s impressed with Louisiana’s improvement on the Nation’s Report Card…
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McMahon believes each state should decide what’s best for them when it comes to improving student achievement in the classroom. She says during her tour she’ll learn about each state’s best policies and programs…
Secretary McMahon will also visit Arkansas and Tennessee this week.