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Southern, LSU sign 5-year ‘A&M Agenda’ partnership
Posted on 9/12/22 at 3:07 pm
Posted on 9/12/22 at 3:07 pm
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Leaders from Southern University and LSU have signed the A&M Agenda, a commitment to work together over the next five years to leverage the two school’s resources for the betterment of the city, the state and the region. LSU President William Tate IV and Southern President Dennis Shields were joined Tuesday by local and state leaders, including Baton Rouge Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome and Gov. John Bel Edwards, to tout the collaboration. The signing event was part of a week-long celebration of the partnership between the two universities that will culminate in the LSU vs. Southern football game Saturday.
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Edwards remarked that partnerships such as the A&M Agenda are possible now that the state is no longer divesting from higher education.
“When you’re leading the nation in divestments in higher education, your university presidents are trying to figure out how to keep the lights on,” Edwards said. “If you get past that and you’re reliably every year supporting higher education, they can actually start to be visionary.”
The agenda outlines collaboration in three areas: partnership, opportunity and community. The partnership element will pursue shared opportunities in several areas, including research and economic development. Several possible partnerships outlined in the document include joint faculty appointments, sharing expertise and programs on Title IX and joint pursuit of grant funding.
The opportunity element will seek to expand opportunities for students, including updating and marketing a university agreement on cross-enrollment. It would mean students would be able to take classes at both institutions and establish a partnership for at least one more degree program between the universities within the next few years.
The agenda also seeks to leverage the resources of the two institutions for the betterment of the city, the surrounding parishes and the state, including community efforts such as anti-littering projects and addressing student hunger through the two agricultural centers.
Tate, LSU’s first Black president, reflected on what the partnership between the state’s largest university and the country’s only historically Black university system means for Black students, calling south Louisiana a Mecca for education for Black students.
“Today, outside of the state of Georgia in the city of Atlanta, there is no city with more African American students, matriculating undergraduates in this country,” Tate said.
Shields echoed Tate’s sentiment, adding that it is important for the two institutions operating in close proximity to move beyond competition.
“It’s fine to have a friendly competition,” Shields said. “But in this era, collaboration is essential to our role as stewards in this place.”
https://lailluminator.com/briefs/southern-lsu-sign-5-year-am-agenda-partnership/
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Posted on 9/12/22 at 3:11 pm to loogaroo
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“When you’re leading the nation in divestments in higher education, your university presidents are trying to figure out how to keep the lights on,”
Thanks, Bobby.
Posted on 9/12/22 at 3:14 pm to loogaroo
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When you’re leading the nation in divestments in higher education, your university presidents are trying to figure out how to keep the lights on,” Edwards said. “If you get past that and you’re reliably every year supporting higher education, they can actually start to be visionary.”
The agenda outlines collaboration in three areas: partnership, opportunity and community. The partnership element will pursue shared opportunities in several areas, including research and economic development. Several possible partnerships outlined in the document include joint faculty appointments, sharing expertise and programs on Title IX and joint pursuit of grant funding.
The opportunity element will seek to expand opportunities for students, including updating and marketing a university agreement on cross-enrollment. It would mean students would be able to take classes at both institutions and establish a partnership for at least one more degree program between the universities within the next few years.
The agenda also seeks to leverage the resources of the two institutions for the betterment of the city, the surrounding parishes and the state, including community efforts such as anti-littering projects and addressing student hunger through the two agricultural centers.
Tate, LSU’s first Black president, reflected on what the partnership between the state’s largest university and the country’s only historically Black university system means for Black students, calling south Louisiana a Mecca for education for Black students.
“Today, outside of the state of Georgia in the city of Atlanta, there is no city with more African American students, matriculating undergraduates in this country,” Tate said.
Shields echoed Tate’s sentiment, adding that it is important for the two institutions operating in close proximity to move beyond competition.
“It’s fine to have a friendly competition,” Shields said. “But in this era, collaboration is essential to our role as stewards in this place.”
in other words: tAlignment?
Posted on 9/12/22 at 3:17 pm to loogaroo
sheesh, i have a louisiana edumacation. cliff notes??
Posted on 9/12/22 at 3:17 pm to loogaroo
Bout tree fiddy bans
Posted on 9/12/22 at 3:20 pm to loogaroo
Good. This state could financially benefit from some of the universities combining their efforts and hopefully reducing costs (doubtful) or offering better quality.
This post was edited on 9/12/22 at 3:22 pm
Posted on 9/12/22 at 3:25 pm to loogaroo
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When you’re leading the nation in divestments in higher education, your university presidents are trying to figure out how to keep the lights on,” Edwards said.
Go screw yourself edwards. Call a constitutional convention, amend the budget so something other than higher Ed and healthcare can be cut, and pass actual budgets and not punitive slashes explicitly designed so that people vote with emotions so that budgets are never reigned in.
Posted on 9/12/22 at 3:26 pm to loogaroo
That sounds like a pretty cool thing. But I'm pretty sure tOT will find a way to complain about this.
Posted on 9/12/22 at 3:40 pm to QJenk
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But I'm pretty sure tOT will find a way to complain about this.
Gotta find something to make up for the lack-of shootouts this weekend that were predicted here last week.
Posted on 9/12/22 at 3:46 pm to loogaroo
At first I read 'A&M Agenda' and I thought it had to do with Monkey Pox.
Posted on 9/12/22 at 4:04 pm to fightin tigers
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Good. This state could financially benefit from some of the universities combining their efforts and hopefully reducing costs (doubtful) or offering better quality.
This is Louisiana. I’m skeptical. This partnership will not provide a better or more affordable education or opportunities for students, and it will end up costing taxpayers tens of millions of dollars once politicians, bureaucrats, and administrators start fighting over budgets and protecting their fiefdoms.
I hope I’m wrong because this state needs a serious overhaul of its higher education system. Maybe this could be a good start towards that.
Posted on 9/12/22 at 4:05 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Merging Southern into LSU would do wonders for the US News & World Report rankings.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 5:41 pm to MrLSU
This is part of why they won't address the violence.
This post was edited on 9/18/22 at 5:43 pm
Posted on 9/18/22 at 7:19 pm to loogaroo
I don’t see any specifics at all in that. No telling what the frick that means. More than likely, it means absolutely nothing other than “let’s be friends”
Posted on 9/18/22 at 7:40 pm to Spankum
Lot of word salad. Might be something good, might not.
If the state really wanted to address the education budget they could close some campuses. Especially the ones with 25-35% grad rates. But that won’t happen because then we wouldn’t be black education Mecca.
If the state really wanted to address the education budget they could close some campuses. Especially the ones with 25-35% grad rates. But that won’t happen because then we wouldn’t be black education Mecca.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 8:54 pm to Spankum
I would say the bottom line is that LSU will financially help out Southern. but it will be well-hidden.
Posted on 9/18/22 at 9:19 pm to jeffsdad
'Bout to launder fed/"donor" $ for equity programs to improve the community.
Contracts most likely will be given' to DEI minded, minority owned companies approved by such-and-such action group.
Seems they want to use LSU as a way to pull more fed$ for the struggling HB SU
Contracts most likely will be given' to DEI minded, minority owned companies approved by such-and-such action group.
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leverage the two school’s resources for the betterment of the city,
quote:= Here comes the gravy train.
partnerships such as the A&M Agenda are possible now that the state is no longer divesting from higher education
quote:
The agenda outlines collaboration in three areas: partnership, opportunity and community.
quote:= for certain people
programs on Title IX and joint pursuit of grant funding
quote:=free meals for everyone
addressing student hunger
quote:=programs for certain people
SU’s first Black president, reflected on what the partnership between the state’s largest university and the country’s only historically Black university system means for Black students,
Seems they want to use LSU as a way to pull more fed$ for the struggling HB SU
Posted on 9/18/22 at 9:20 pm to loogaroo
Wasn’t playing them in football enough?
Posted on 9/18/22 at 9:55 pm to loogaroo
You had a good run LSU. Sorry to see it come to an end,
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