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Faculty Senate Newsletter, February 2013, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Feb 2013

Faculty Senate Newsletter, February 2013, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Message from President: Years ago, American Airlines backgrounded its television advertisements with a hauntingly optimistic jingle featuring one phrase, “something special in the air.” Tone, whether musical or inflectional or atmospheric, is indeed something airy— something halfway between the inferred and the empirical. One of the wonders if not miracles of recent educational policy is the sudden change in tone among the campuses of the University of Louisiana System since the arrival of new, imaginative, and energetic leadership in the “UoL” System office. Nothing has changed in the budget picture and therefore not too much has happened empirically. Nevertheless, and …


Faculty Senate Newsletter, October 2012, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Oct 2012

Faculty Senate Newsletter, October 2012, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Message from President: “Diversity” is one of those words that can carry diverse meanings. As one story in this issue of the Newsletter reports, LSU A&M’s diversity office is making a salutary move by the introduction, in its annual report, of numerous colorful icons representing the many diversities that the world has to offer. That modern, dispersed diversity contrasts with the more centripetal sort that attracted attention earlier in Louisiana’s history, when higher education institutions sought primarily and specifically to remedy past injustices through outreach to African-American student and faculty cadres. The flexibility of the term “diversity” comes in handy …


Faculty Senate Resolution 89-01, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College Oct 1989

Faculty Senate Resolution 89-01, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Faculty Senate Resolution on the Office for International Program Coordination, adopted on October 11, 1989.