Board Of Regents

The Board of Regents intends to name the new commissioner at its April 18 meeting.

The Board of Regents didn't say how many people were interviewed.

Louisiana Tech and LSU-Shreveport now one step closer to merging into one university. The Board of Regents today approved a plan that'll merge the two.

A new study believes governance of Louisiana's public colleges should remain as-is, for the most part. The Governance Commission recommends against consolidating the state's four university system boards into one.

Public colleges in Louisiana now have a green light from the Board of Regents to increase tuition rates by as much as ten percent.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A consultant charged with studying a possible merger of Southern University at New Orleans with the University of New Orleans is suggesting two options: a new merged University of Greater New Orleans or a redesign of the campuses to give them separate missions.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal's new minority appointee to the Board of Regents won't be attending a meeting to discuss the racially charged, potential merger of Southern University at New Orleans with the University of New Orleans.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The University of Louisiana System has put 138 degree programs — many education certification specialties — up for elimination or consolidation in response to a Board of Regents' order to cut offerings at its schools.

The state's top college governance board is interviewing its only finalist to become Louisiana's next higher education commissioner.

The search for a new higher education commissioner is expected to heat up over the next few weeks as the Board of Regents has been told by lawmakers they can hire someone for an annual salary of 275-thousand dollars.

Despite backlash from black lawmakers and some education officials, the governor's proposal to merge two New Orleans colleges COULD gain support among lawmakers.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A group of two dozen state lawmakers is calling on the Board of Regents to give them a plan for scaling back state college spending. And they want the plan soon.