LSU getting into the game with unprecedented fundraising quest.

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What will it take for LSU to lead Louisiana and impact the world? It’s a more than $1.3 billion question the university system wants donors to answer over the next six years as part of the largest higher education fundraising campaign in Louisiana history.

LSU is still a couple weeks away from officially launching this audacious question-and-answer session, just the university’s third advancement campaign over the past 159 years. More jaw-dropping than how rare these endeavors have been for the state’s flagship institution, is this: The previous two efforts have taken place over the past three decades, meaning for nearly 130 years there was nothing in the way of an official capital campaign. Yes, LSU went after philanthropic dollars, but not in any significant way, instead relying largely on student tuition and state dollars to fund the way.

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