LSU provost taking same job at Oregon State 

LSU Provost Roy Haggerty is leaving the university to accept the same position at Oregon State, where he previously taught and served as a dean. 

The provost’s position is the highest ranking role on campus for an academic, in many instances second in command to the president.   

LSU President William Tate thanked Haggerty for his service in a campuswide email announcing his departure. Haggerty’s departure was confirmed to the Illuminator last month by LSU Board of Supervisors member Rémy Starns. 

Haggerty is the third high-ranking administrator to leave LSU this year. 

Before coming to LSU in 2022, Haggerty worked at Oregon State for 26 years as a professor and as dean of its College of Science. 

“Oregon is our community, and it is OSU’s responsibility to do everything we can to make it better,” Haggerty said in an Oregon State news release. “I can’t wait to join President Murthy and everyone at OSU to advance all of Oregon.”

Troy Blanchard, dean of LSU’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences will serve as interim provost and executive vice president effective May 19. 

According to Tate’s email, Haggerty will “continue to support LSU in an advisory role to the President and the Interim Executive Vice President and Provost.”