Board of Regents Considers Raising Revenue
The Board of Regents is thinking of ways to bring in new funds to make up for the past five years of budget cuts sustained by the Louisiana University System.The Board of Regents met for the first time...
View ArticleLSU Cuts Ties with Truancy Intervention Program
Louisiana State University will end its affiliation with the Truancy Assessment and Service Center because of mid-year budget cuts.Last year after Cecile Guin, the head of TASC, convinced the...
View ArticleLocal Partnerships Key To LSU Hospital Privatization
As privatization moves forward, the LSU hospital system is focused on partnering with health care providers already operating in the communities where LSU facilities are.
View ArticleStudent Surveys Reveal More LSU Grads Staying In State
At the start of the Louisiana Smart Growth Summit in November, keynote speaker Mitchell J. Silver – who works for the Department of City Planning in Raleigh, North Carolina – gave his audience some...
View ArticleLSU Supervisors''Disregard' Garners National Attention
A report in the Chronicle of Higher Education detailed a letter received by LSU’s Board of Supervisors. A national organization that monitors academic freedom at colleges and universities shook their...
View ArticleWinning Coach of the Tigers Gets Raise
LSU's governing board has approved a $549,000 annual pay raise for football coach Les Miles.The change has bumped Miles' salary to $4.3 million a year and extended his contract through the 2019 season.
View ArticleBaton Rouge Patent Growth Lags Behind Cities Nationwide
Patent production isn’t growing as quickly in Baton Rouge as in other metro areas, according to a new national study.The Brookings Institution ranks Baton Rouge 141st out of over 350 metro areas for...
View ArticleMONDAY: LSU's David Kurpius, Law Professor David Orentlicher, Chesley...
Jim talks with LSU's David Kurpius about the Tiger Bridge program, which could allow students at a Baton Rouge Community College to live on the LSU campus.Law professor and author David Orentlicher,...
View ArticleBond Issues For Privatized LSU Hospitals No Longer Tax-Exempt
Plans to privatize most of LSU’s public hospitals are making repairs and construction to the facilities more expensive.
View ArticleTHURSDAY: LSU Reveille Editor Andrea Gallo, Conservative Commentator Sherif...
Andrea Gallo, editor of LSU's Reveille student newspaper, talks with Jim about the paper's lawsuit against the university for the secrecy in the recent search for a new...
View ArticleFRIDAY: State Treasurer John Kennedy, LSU's Dr. Larry Kaptain, Author Ed...
State Treasurer John Kennedy talks about non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who've received state money but refuse to account for it. He also talks about the state's political landscape.Dr. Larry...
View ArticleMONDAY: Businessman Steve Myers, LA Farm Bureau's Mike Danna
Local business man and former Delta Kappa Epsilon member at LSU Steve Myers talks about the controversy over a sign posted by DKE's before the LSU-Kent state game; invoking the 1970 Kent State student...
View ArticleMONDAY: Sen. Mary Landrieu, Tiger Rag Editors Cody Worsham, Luke Johnson
Tiger Rag Editor Cody Worsham and Assistant Tiger Rag Editor Luke Johnson talks with Jim about LSU's victory over Florida.Sen. Mary Landrieu joins Jim to discuss the latest with the Government Shutdown.
View ArticleMONDAY: State Treasurer John N. Kennedy, Six-time All American Heather Van...
Track and field coach for Nicholls State University, Heather Van Norman talks with Jim about her over 30 years of track and field experience. She also talks about how her son, LSU'S wide receiver,...
View ArticleMONDAY: Author John Meacham, LSU vs Alabama, Volunteers in Public Schools
The owner of Louie's Cafe, Jimmy Wetherford stops by to talk about the 9th annual North Gate festival taking place this Friday.Kimberly Levy-Marcelle joins the show to discuss the latest with...
View ArticleMONDAY: Sports Writer Marty Mule, Senator Yvonne Dorsey-Colomb
Veteran Sports Writer Marty Mule chats with Jim about LSU's close win over Arkansas , Alabama's lost against Auburn, and his latest book "Game Changers: The Rousing Legacy of Louisiana Sports."Sen....
View ArticleFRIDAY: LSU Manship School's Bob Mann, Tiger Rag's Cody Worsham
Jim chats with Bob Mann, of the LSU Manship school of Mass Communications, and former press secretary to Governor Blanco, and aide to Russel Long, John Breaux and J. Bennett Johnston. Bob discusses...
View ArticleTUESDAY: Roger Villere, state G.O.P. Chair, & Steven David Beck, Dir. of...
Jim Engster interviews: Roger Villere, State Chair of the Republican Party, about the President's State of the Union address and Senator David Vitter's run of Governor in 2015, as well as, Steven...
View ArticleFRIDAY: LSU President & Chancellor F. King Alexander; Steve Winham;...
LSU President and Chancellor F. King Alexander stops by the studio to talk with Jim about LSU sports, student debts, the TOPS program, the new pressures due to decreased taxpayer funding, as well as a...
View ArticleFirst Bell: It Took a Hurricane to Get this Student Reading
The First Bell series is a growing collection of stories from students, parents, and educators about pivotal experiences in education. To tell your story, email amy@wrkf.orgwith "My First Bell" in the...
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