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Faculty Senate Newsletter, September 2010, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College

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Message from the President: The cloudy, demoralizing times in which we now work diminish interest even in silver linings, especially given that a shower of gold is what our University most needs. Nevertheless, the ensemble of crises that now bugles us into action provides an occasion for empirical as well as speculative consideration of shibboleths about the academic workplace. One easy observation is that the University continues to function and to do good work through the good efforts and intentions of good workers. Some may ask whether the Faculty Senate Monthly Newsletter ought only to focus on the higher education …