LSU has reinstated a standardized test requirement for admission to the Baton Rouge campus. Students would have submit either an ACT or SAT score. Chancellor Doctor James Dalton says the test score is one piece they will look at for admission…
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LSU Board of Supervisors member James Williams expressed concern about requiring a test score., because standardized tests display known socioeconomic and geographic biases…
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The holistic admissions process that LSU has used over the last several years is designed to promote economic and racial diversity. Since adopting the test-optional admissions, Black and Hispanic enrollment has increased.
The Appropriations Committee begins a series of budget hearings today as they comb through Governor Landry’s budget proposal for next fiscal year. Appropriations Chairman Jack MacFarland expects debate over the L-A GATOR program, the state’s education voucher program that provides financial assistance to 56-hundred low-income families to attend private school. Landry wants to grow the program to help more than just low-income families with their educational expenses. MacFarland says Landry wants to increase funding from 44-million dollars to 88-million.
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The University of Louisiana System has named Ramesh Kolluru as U-L Lafayette’s seventh president. Before being appointed interim president last year, Kolluru was the university’s vice president for research, innovation and economic development – a role he held for more than a decade. Now that he’s the full-time president, Kolluru says he will continue to grow U-L Lafayette as a research institution.