Piper Hutchinson

The mayor of New Orleans says the city is withdrawing its request for a loan approval to maintain city services after it became clear the state intended to deny it. The approval was slated to go before the State Bond...

LSU President Wade Rousse and Gov. Jeff Landry are co-hosting an event for LSU athletics’ top donors at the governor’s mansion next month on the financial future of the athletic department. The event will occur the first week of August...

LSU has fired its chief financial officer, the vice president in charge of handling sex-based discrimination complaints and its former diversity, equity and inclusion staff in what campus leaders say are cost-reducing layoffs. Twenty five employees were let go last...

Anyone who helps student-athletes negotiate name, image and likeness deals in Louisiana now has to register with the state. The requirement took effect last month after Gov. Jeff Landry signed Act 895 . The new law, authored by Sen. Patrick...

Louisiana’s colleges and universities are bringing home hundreds of millions for construction projects and other key priorities in the state budget, including more than $50 million for a new STEM complex at Southern University. The state budget for fiscal year...

McNeese State University’s new president is being paid a $300,000 annual salary and will keep his side gig — as a state senator— for the time being. Unlike other Louisiana politicians who have landed jobs leading colleges and universities, state...

Key points Northwestern State University President Jimmy Genovese wants to open a law school, despite brushback from the governor and state lawmakers. Genovese said the law school idea originated with Gov. Jeff Landry. Genovese and the state senator who got...

Gov. Jeff Landry increased his control of the LSU Board of Supervisors by quietly appointing two donors to the university oversight board. Chad Moody and Jennifer Settoon were named to the board earlier this month though neither appointment was publicly...

LSU and Hyundai have entered into a decade-long research partnership related to the automaker’s $5.8 billion steel mill being built in Ascension Parish. The company’s total investment in research at the university has not yet been finalized, LSU Vice Chancellor...

The team tasked with hiring the next Southern University System president is close to finishing its work, its chairman said Thursday. New Orleans City Councilman Jason Hughes, a Southern graduate and former state representative, said he believes the committee will...

Whether the University of New Orleans will retain its status as a research university after it rejoins the LSU system is uncertain, LSU System President Wade Rousse said. Rousse said restoring the UNO’s financial stability is a priority as it...

Louisiana lawmakers adjourned their annual lawmaking session Monday after dramatically altering Louisiana’s congressional election map and amid a frantic funding search for teacher pay stipends. The three-month session started with little excitement as Gov. Jeff Landry had no clear agenda...