
LSU’s War Memorial Tower looms over portions of the Baton Rouge campus. Photo Credit: Julie O’Donoghue/Louisiana Illuminator
by Piper Hutchinson, Louisiana Illuminator
The long-awaited strategic plan for Louisiana’s flagship university calls for a new vision of LSU, one administrators are calling the “statewide university.”
This new version of LSU will combine its main campus in Baton Rouge, satellites in Shreveport, Eunice and Alexandria, its two medical schools, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, the LSU Ag Center and parish extension offices into one statewide research engine.