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The LSU Board of Supervisors has created a new comprehensive, research-intensive Flagship University comprised of the following components: LSU’s historic campus in Baton Rouge; LSU Agricultural Center; LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans, LSU Health Sciences Center – Shreveport; and Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Provost

Louisiana State University (LSU) is a comprehensive, statewide flagship research university serving Louisiana and the world and holding designations as a land-, sea-, and space-grant institution. LSU enrolls more than 45,000 students, employs more than 13,000 faculty and staff, and operates with a budget exceeding $3.3 billion.

The Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Provost (SVCAAP) will sit at the crafter’s table in this newly designed LSU Flagship and serve as the University’s chief academic officer for the LSU Flagship, which consists of the historic Baton Rouge A&M campus, LSU Agricultural Center, LSU Health Sciences Center – New Orleans, LSU Health Sciences Center – Shreveport, and Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

The position has direct oversight of the collective of academic colleges and schools as well as student enrollment and support units based at the Baton Rouge campus. The role also coordinates academic matters on the university level across all institutional components across the state. Reporting to LSU Chancellor Jim Dalton and collaborating closely with the senior vice chancellors at Pennington Biomedical, the LSU Agricultural Center, the Health Sciences Center – New Orleans, and the Health Sciences Center – Shreveport, the successful candidate will be responsible for facilitating academic excellence and student success, promoting robust research and scholarly activity, and advancing a unified academic and research vision across the full LSU Flagship that reflects LSU’s role as the comprehensive, multi-campus research institution in the State of Louisiana.

LSU includes 23 college-level units across three locations. The Baton Rouge campus serves as a comprehensive academic site and supports a broad array of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs. The Baton Rouge campus enrolls approximately 42,000 students across nearly 200 bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and specialist degree programs. The campus includes the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Louisiana’s only School of Veterinary Medicine, and a wide range of colleges, schools, and research centers that contribute to LSU’s statewide academic and research mission.

LSU’s land-grant mission is primarily fulfilled by the LSU Agricultural Center, which integrates agricultural research and Cooperative Extension to advance food systems, environmental stewardship, economic development, and community resilience across the state. The Pennington Biomedical Research Center, a globally recognized institute specializing in chronic disease, diabetes, obesity, and metabolic health. The Health Sciences Center – New Orleans and the Health Sciences Center – Shreveport deliver high quality patient care, health professions education, clinical training, and research across healthcare and biomedical sciences.

The Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Provost has a truly unique opportunity in American higher education to participate in the reorganization of the LSU System and integration of the unified LSU Flagship that reflects LSU’s role as the comprehensive, multi-campus research institution in the State of Louisiana. The LSU Board of Supervisors directed a consequential restructuring of its flagship enterprise – one designed to align academic leadership, research strategy, and institutional scale in support of national competitiveness and distinctive student success.

This effort brings together five distinct but complementary research-intensive campuses into a single statewide Flagship University with a shared academic direction and coordinated scholarly agenda. The goal is clear and disciplined: to position LSU among the nation’s Top 50 public research universities and to meet the long‑term criteria associated with AAU eligibility, while…