Education & Workforce

Despite the challenges LSU has weathered over the past 18 months—a pandemic, a Title IX scandal, a federal investigation into alleged NCAA violations, and a leadership change—its Fierce for the Future campaign is doing well, all things considered.

The Baton Rouge metro area’s unemployment rate fell in August, going from 5.8% in July to 5%, slightly lower than the national average of 5.3%, according to the latest, not seasonally adjusted data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

After months of working on recommendations given by the Husch Blackwell reports and lawmakers,...

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East Baton Rouge Parish schools started the school year with a teacher shortage, which is not unusual, but are now struggling to staff cafeterias and find substitute teachers after many were displaced by the hurricane or are taking leaves from work.

Sasha Thackaberry, LSU’s vice president of online learning and continuing education, has left the school after a little more than three years for a top administrative post at National University, a San Diego-based institution that specializes in online learning.

LSU today announced its current freshman class is the largest and most diverse in its history, while also averaging the highest GPA and ACT score of any incoming class at the school.

LSU this morning announced a new partnership with education and upskilling platform Guild Education to provide online degrees and certificate programs to Guild’s employer partners, which include Chipotle, Target, Walmart and Waste Management.

As more employers make COVID-19 testing and vaccine rules for workers—with some limiting hiring to vaccinated candidates only—people are starting to volunteer their vaccination status on job applications and on résumés. 

LSU construction management professors Yimin Zhu and Amirhosein Jafari are researching how new technology can be leveraged to create next-generation learning environments for architecture, engineering and construction engineering.