LSU - Leadership and Vision at Every Level

Our endowment has really grown. Academics improved but not competitive at all with UT or UVA academically

What is our endowment number currently? I want to get more involved in supporting as I am able.

Leadership is short sided. LSU could print their own money with the right leadership.

There is none outside of the colleges of engineering and business. The rest of the school is a collection of petty selfish deans all constantly trying to screw over oneanother, a front office more worried about image, political posturing, political correctness, and trying not to be labeled a "party school", to worry about tiny matters like educating students, making sure buildings aren't crumbling, or ensuring that their big time donors aren't hacked off at them.

It's like a fortune 500 company that's being run into the ground by third generation management (see HP under Carlie Fiorina).

They are so worried about appearing to be some serious academic institution that they completely ignore the whole academic parts. Professors don't teach, research trips go unfunded, instructors are laid off, sections are reduced so students cannot schedule classes to graduate on time, scholarship money is "lost", greek organizations are banned just to "make examples", any drinking is heavily scrutinized, concerts are censored for content and have to have a drug-free, alcohol-free message, ect.

It is shameful that an institution as storied as LSU is run in such a chicken-shite manner.

They're about to begin a 1.2 billion dollar campaign

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I think our dysfunction in athletics is simply an outward sign of bigger issues.

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Absolutely....Athletics seems to be the only place left in the state with money, so everyone is trying to stick their hands in it and screw with it.

Who has the highest enrollment in the country? Bama.

Alabama is not in the top ten in undergraduate enrollment:

1. UCF
2. Liberty
3. Texas A&M
4. Ohio State
5. Arizona State
6. FIU
7. Penn State
8. U Texas
9. Michigan State
10. Indiana

F King Alexander is an academic, not businessman, therefore he is not going to engineer a plan for a better university system. I work in the EBR school system and the best superintendent we ever had was Charlotte Placide. She was not an academic and didn't claim to be, she was an economist that gave teachers raises every year, which recruited better talent, and trusted the leaders of the other aspects of the school system excel by letting them do their job and leave them alone. F King is the problem with the university system and the BOD like him bc they control him. They need to find a man who they might not control and who might not be an academic, but knows how to build an organization. I know it sounds crazy but they should recruit someone who is slightly politically savy and has experience building and running a huge coorporation, like Jim Bernhart.