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"The commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion should not be limited to hiring practices for athletic directors and head coaches but should apply to aspects of hiring processes across higher education institutions."

"Internships and statewide incentives should be considered to diversify the talent pool and encourage adherence to the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Pledge and related recommendations."

- Kim Hunter Reed
Commissioner of Higher Education

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On a relevant note...

2028 presidential election party favorite to win

Vance Newsom head to head

These two predictit markets are in conflict.

"In fact, at the top of the Louisiana higher education chain of command is a registered Democrat who worked in the Obama administration “leading post-secondary diversity and inclusion work”–Kim Hunter Reed.

Soon after Reed’s appointment as Commissioner of Louisiana Higher Education in 2018, the Board of Regents and nearly all state universities adopted a policy objective in the Higher Education Executive Budget that openly prioritizes non-White and non-Asian students. This discriminatory objective first appeared in the FY21-22 budget (pg. 16) and has been listed every year since, including the FY25-26 budget (pg. 12)."



"Louisiana families want their children to thrive in higher education. They deserve a higher education system that focuses on academic excellence and merit over opaque DEI policy goals that quietly reappear in each year’s executive budget without proper scrutiny.

What’s more, Louisiana higher education could be at risk of losing key federal funding if the Board of Regents is found to have violated Title VI through the discriminatory Objective 6711-09."

Louisiana Deserves a Full Audit of Anti-White and Anti-Asian Funding at the Board of Regentsentsntsntsntsts]ts

"must have" or "must've", not "must of".

Lengthy, but detailed article on The Hayride today. Here's some highlights...

KELLY:
The stuff I’ve heard about Brian Kelly over the last few weeks has been really amazing. Assumedly if I’ve heard it, the members of the LSU Board of Supervisors would also have heard it, which is why things moved as quickly as they did on Sunday.

I heard that Kelly’s attendance at LSU’s practices had become not altogether regular – as in, he’d be there and then he’d skip out for a while, and then he’d come back. I’d heard Kelly always had a glass of wine on hand when he was in his office.

I’d heard he was a very frequent patron at a few of Baton Rouge’s best restaurants, which isn’t a particularly bad thing except that he’d be there early and stay late during the season.

The picture these reports painted was of a coach who was very much mailing it in at LSU.

Woodward:
How it happened seems to be an item of some contention. The official story has it that Athletic Director Scott Woodward called Kelly in and demanded that he fire offensive coordinator Joe Sloan, who has been so bad this year one has almost been tempted to feel sorry for him, and Kelly refused – and that’s what brought on Kelly’s firing.

I can’t tell you definitively that isn’t true. What I can say is it’s definitely not what I heard. The way I heard it was that Kelly offered up Sloan’s head, and that not necessarily Woodward but several members of the LSU Board of Supervisors who had congregated to discuss the future of the football program were grossly unsatisfied with Sloan being made the scapegoat for this season’s awful performance. There is another story which has it that Kelly also offered up offensive line coach Brad Davis, whose unit has been inexplicably awful this year given how many highly-recruited athletes it contains, and Woodward objected.

I don’t know if I believe the last version. But what I can say is that I’d heard for quite some time that Davis, the holdover from Ed Orgeron’s staff and a Baton Rouge native, was Scott Woodward’s man on that coaching staff and that Woodward protected him when Kelly wanted to make a change after last year.

Woodward put out a statement, in any event, claiming that he’d let Kelly go and that he would find LSU another coach, and the media reports about Kelly’s firing all carry the tint of Scott Woodward in charge of the process.

And that, I’m pretty sure, is a crock.

Rousse:
On Wednesday, the LSU presidential search committee will release its final list of candidates for the job. If I’ve heard this correctly, that list will include current interim president Matt Lee, Robert Robbins who is the former president of the University of Arizona, and McNeese State University president Wade Rousse.

Rousse is the guy they’re going to hire. He reportedly has the votes from 10 of the 16 members of the LSU Board of Supervisors and he’s Gov. Jeff Landry’s candidate. On Nov. 4, the LSU Board of Supervisors meets to pick one of the three finalists and they’re going to go with Landry’s man barring something very unforeseen.

The guess here is that Rousse will get his vote from the LSU Board of Supervisors on Nov. 4, and while he won’t officially be LSU’s president until Jan. 1, he’ll unofficially take over that job immediately after being named. And Rousse will either sack Woodward on the spot, or he’ll be a lame-duck AD until he’s replaced over the summer.

And Rousse is going to hire the next football coach at LSU.

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Matt "DEI" Lee has NO Business Becoming LSU's Next President

The same guy who organized a DEI Tailgate while Dean of College of Agriculture?

To be expected with Matt (DEI) Lee at the helm.

Matt "DEI" Lee has No Business Becoming LSU's Next President

“In Louisiana, most higher education administrators, board members, and professors are registered Democrats or donors to left-leaning political campaigns. In fact, at the top of the Louisiana higher education chain of command is a registered Democrat who worked in the Obama administration “leading post-secondary diversity and inclusion work”–Kim Hunter Reed.

Soon after Reed’s appointment as Commissioner of Louisiana Higher Education in 2018, the Board of Regents and nearly all state universities adopted a policy objective in the Higher Education Executive Budget that openly prioritizes non-White and non-Asian students. This discriminatory objective first appeared in the FY21-22 budget (pg. 16) and has been listed every year since, including the FY25-26 budget (pg. 12).”

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There is a week old money board thread on it.

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Nope. Same agency (Board of Regents), different issue.

The outage could lead to delayed scholarship or savings account payments, according to the statement, which said the Louisiana State Police and other agencies are investigating the cause.

“While we continue the investigation, we have notified all institutions regarding potential delayed student START account or state scholarship payments,” the statement said. “We have asked institutions to extend payment deadlines to minimize any disruptions to education.”

The statement raised several unanswered questions, including whether the disruption was due to a cyberattack and whether students’ and families’ personal data was compromised. Agency staffers are analyzing the outage “to determine what, if any, information was involved in the incident," the statement said.

A Board of Regents spokesperson said he could not answer follow-up questions.

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