Education & Workforce

Schools, universities, workforce training, and the talent pipeline preparing the region’s next generation of workers.

CATS, union reach agreement on two-year contract

After months of often-contentious negotiations, the CATS administration and the union that represents some...

Twenty-five years have passed since Teach for America set foot in south Louisiana classrooms. Has it made any difference?

(Photography by Don Kadair: Michelle Gieg at Democracy Prep Baton Rouge) When Michelle Gieg first...

Teach for America at 25: Inside Lucas Spielfogel’s TFA experience

(Photography by Don Kadair: Lucas Spielfogel) At 22 years old, Lucas Spielfogel was “in a...

Teach for America at 25: Performance assessment

Are Teach for America teachers any good? Studies touted by TFA suggest the students...

A Shell engineer is using reading to emphasize the importance of communication skills to students

(Photo by Don Kadair) Wearing his red protective suit, Shell Geismar process engineer Dustin Mahler...

Stephanie Riegel: Higher ed sinks while we scream about LSU football

During the recent Thanksgiving holidays, Europe was still reeling from the Paris bombings, Turkey...
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‘Authorpreneur’ Jeffrey Marx tests DIY publishing for his new collection of LSU sports stories

(Photography by Brian Baiamonte: Jeffrey Marx) When Baton Rouge-based author Jeffrey Marx began looking for...

LSU’s new Professional Sales Institute off to successful start, looking for additional business partners

About three years ago, a survey conducted in LSU’s E.J. Ourso College of Business...

Forty Under 40 Q&A: Amanda Staiano

Amanda Staiano, 30 Assistant Professor, LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center Even while growing up, Amanda Staiano...

Forty Under 40 Q&A: Michelle Thompson Gieg

Michelle Thompson Gieg, 31 Executive director/Principal, Democracy Prep Baton Rouge After graduating from LSU in 2005,...
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