re: Former LSU President Tate bringing fellow employees to Rutgers

You he’s bringing a herim. Guess they went black and don’t want to go back

More prestigious university, more pay. No surprise

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The board also approved the hiring of Keena Arbuthnot as executive vice president for academic affairs. Arbuthnot is currently dean of LSU’s graduate school.

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Towards the end of their LSU employment and while being paid by LSU Arbuthnot and Tate worked on an analysis and letter to JBE pushing for Southern to get more money. It was officially published and released to public around time Tate accepted Rutgers job.

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Outgoing LSU President William Tate, the first Black president of any SEC school, is calling for more investment in Southern University in a new paper analyzing the financial disparities between Louisiana’s two land-grant universities.

The analysis was written by Tate and Keena Arbuthnot, dean of LSU’s Graduate School, who is also Black, and published in the William & Mary Law Review.

“Our financial risk analysis suggests that Southern University’s financial situation warrants monitoring and more importantly, investment,” the authors write.

Tate and Arbuthnot’s article builds on a 2023 letter from former President Joe Biden’s administration to 16 states with both predominantly white and historically Black land-grant universities, informing the states they have not lived up to their federal funding requirements and asking them to find ways to ease the disparity.

The letter to then Gov. John Bel Edwards alleged Louisiana had shortchanged Southern University $1.2 billion over 30 years.

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https://lailluminator.com/2025/06/08/outgoing-lsu-president-calls-for-more-investment-in-southern-university/

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Thanks for explaining and providing context to back up your claim.

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Have you explained and provided context to back up your claim?