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Faculty Senate Newsletter, March 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
Faculty Senate Newsletter, March 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
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Message from President: Few would doubt that LSU and Louisiana higher education have made enormous progress over the last thirty-odd years. The notion that history progresses and that institutions advance has been out-of-fashion for aeons, yet it does seem that the onetime Old War Skule and its cohort campuses are doing a lot more in a much better way than they did at their inceptions. Sustaining the linear if not altogether teleological progress of Louisiana higher education, however, is the boom-and-bust cycle of the Louisiana economy, a cycle driven by the price of and demand for natural resources and related …
Faculty Senate Newsletter, February 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
Faculty Senate Newsletter, February 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
LSU Faculty Senate Publications
Message from the President: Spring is the season in which metamorphoses routinely occur. It might also be a good time to consider the control that a dark old demon called habit can exert in even the bright days of renewal. Those who seldom sally through the ramparts of the many Boyd Halls and those who see the necessity of quick and often excruciating decisions by the administration may not see the grip that habit exerts not on any one campus executive but on the culture of administration as a whole. The most obvious and often the most prestigious form of …
Faculty Senate Newsletter, January 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
Faculty Senate Newsletter, January 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural & Mechanical College
LSU Faculty Senate Publications
Message from the President: Brutus, when consigning Caesar to eternity, seeks attention from friends, Romans, and countrymen, asking them to lend him their ears. Had he been living in Baton Rouge in 2011, he might well have added to that list “coalitions,” the Flagship Coalition being the newest among the many supporters and compatriots seeking citizenship in the Tiger Empire. Brutus, of course, was himself not the most dependable of friends; he called for numerous “ears” knowing well that listening would be a wise strategy in turbulent times. He offered a list of affiliated parties—friends, Romans, and countrymen— suspecting that …