Hughes comes to Louisiana after serving more than six years as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Morehead State University in Kentucky.
Academic professionals will soon have a new tool to express their ideas.
The University of Louisiana system is launching the "Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education" in mid-March.
Governor Bobby Jindal signs into law legislation that allows the University of New Orleans to transfer from the LSU System to the University of Louisiana System.
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.