Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University (LSU) is a leading research-extensive institution. LSU is challenging students (graduate and undergraduate), researchers and faculty to push out the boundaries of science and to achieve the highest levels of personal and academic development. LSU offers a broad array of undergraduate degree programs and extensive graduate research opportunities. The university is designated as a Sea, Land and Space Grant institution, with different colleges and departments that focus on the generation, preservation, dissemination, and application of knowledge and cultivation of the arts. This Louisiana flagship university has a current student enrollment of 31,527. In 2015, LSU has received the fourth largest freshman class in its…

At Louisiana State University or any college, student success is very important to the students, the teachers, the counselors, the administrators. There are a lot of resources and people to talk to on campus to help students be successful. Louisiana State University has this resource called the Center for Academic Success. The definition of student success is very broad. Student success is linked to the goals the student sets, the student values, their motivation, what motivates them, how they…

worst in Baton Rouge and the surrounding cities. A day that was a fresh start for me was the worst day for entire families. This day had been planned for months, I had prepared for weeks and packed for days. This was the day that I moved to a new city and a new home to start college and lay the foundation for what the rest of my life would become. I expected a fun and frantic moving day but instead found it worry filled and stressed. We decided to make the trip anyway and just take our chances.…

“Experience,” was the message Susan Theall voiced at a forum held at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Tuesday afternoon. Theall and Vanessa Anseman were initially scheduled to debate but Anseman was not able attended after a district judge Alonzo Harris ruled Monday she was ineligible said moderator Ian Auzenne who is the vice president of the Acadiana Press Club. “Yesterday district judge Alonzo Harris of St. Landry parish ruled Anseman was ineligible to run,” he said. “Anseman filed…

Huey Pierce Long Jr., also known as The Kingfish, was born in Winnfield, Louisiana on August 30, 1893 (Jeansonne 1). At the age of seventeen, Huey was a traveling salesman from, Louisiana, to Texas, to Tennessee (Simkin 1). At the age of twenty- one, Long went to get his college education from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. In 1918, Huey started practicing his law career in Shreveport, Louisiana. He presented small plaintiffs against large businesses (Life & Times 3). Long made a…

Partners The Eden House and Trafficking Hope believes in establishing partnerships with various organizations in order to appease the needs (medical, legal aid, awareness and outreach) of their clients. The Eden House and Trafficking has established partnerships with University Medical Center (UMC), Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Children’s Hospital, and Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, Loyola University, New Orleans Dream…

one Louisiana Scientist Dr van Heerden dives into a highly controversial topic. While the book is filled with hard hitting truths and honesty, it is at times difficult to process at times. South African born Ivor van Heerden holds a doctorate degree in Marine Science he received from LSU in 1983. Twenty years later he will find himself back at Louisiana State University serving as the deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center from July 1999 until April 2009.…

Dear Treehouse Board of Directors and to whomever else it might concern. Before I begin, I would like to give the assembled group of individuals a great round of applause. I thank you for the dedication and effort each of you has personally put into this theater to insure it’s survival for a great number of years. As a former student performing member of Treehouse Theaters JTF performing team, I wish to bring to the attention of the board an issue that I have personally been concerned about…

Prior to this academic year I knew next to nothing about Oberlin other than the fact that it was a college and it existed. It wasn’t until my college counselor recommended I apply there. Originally I wasn’t going to look into the school much since I was swamped with school work, family problems, and other college applications. I’d done some research into the school, but it was mainly financial research, looking to cost, financial aid, and scholarships. But I realized, for every other school I…

ultimately drowning out around 80% of the state, Hurricane Katrina proved to be more than just a category five hurricane, proving to be historical, holding a position of the third deadliest hurricane that has affected the United States of America. Three reasons Hurricane Katrina proved unpreparedness were; The New Orleans levee system was…