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LSU’s class of 2015-16 was a groundbreaking one for the university in many areas with new records for African American, Hispanic, female, veteran and overall graduation numbers.
At the spring commencement ceremony on Friday, May 13, at total of 4,102 degrees were awarded – the largest amount of degrees awarded at a single commencement surpassing last year’s 3,977 degrees awarded in the spring.

Bishop J. Douglas Deshotel of the Diocese of Lafayette will ordain the latest class of deacon candidates to the permanent diaconate in two separate ceremonies which are scheduled for Sunday and June 4. Both ceremonies will take place at the Cathedral of St.

The Louisiana House took a possibly unprecedented stance last week when it approved a standalone appropriations bill, apart from the state budget, for the attorney general’s Justice Department.
The likelihood of HB 105 passing, though, is not great, based on more than a dozen interviews regarding the proposal.

LSUE and the University of Louisiana Lafayette are named as one of six high-performing pairs of community colleges and universities with strong transfer student outcomes.
LSUE and UL Lafayette were offered as models for transfer practices and policies in a report from the Aspen Institute and the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Louisiana students may have one more thing to recite in their morning homerooms if House Bill 1035, which gets a full hearing before the House of Representatives next week, passes into law.