Louisiana State University System
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The Louisiana State University System is budgetarily the largest public university system in Louisiana
. John V. Lombardi
is the system's president. The system has its headquarters in the System Building on the property of Louisiana State University
in Baton Rouge
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The LSU system has a presence in all 64 Louisiana parishes through its cooperative extension service. This service assists farmers, gardeners, and other businesses in dealing with some of Louisiana's unique environmental challenges.
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
. John V. Lombardi
John V. Lombardi
John Vincent Paul Maher Lombardi is an American university professor and administrator. Lombardi currently serves as the president of the Louisiana State University System, a position he has held since 2007. He is a native of California, and earned his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees...
is the system's president. The system has its headquarters in the System Building on the property of Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University
Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...
in Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and is the second-largest city in the state.Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, and research center of the American South...
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Institutions
- Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical CollegeLouisiana State UniversityLouisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, most often referred to as Louisiana State University, or LSU, is a public coeducational university located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The University was founded in 1853 in what is now known as Pineville, Louisiana, under the name...
(main campus in Baton RougeBaton Rouge, LouisianaBaton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and is the second-largest city in the state.Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, and research center of the American South...
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- Louisiana State University Agricultural CenterLouisiana State University Agricultural CenterThe Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, or the LSU AgCenter, is headquartered in Baton Rouge. The center conducts agricultural-based research through its Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station and extends the knowledge derived from research to the people of the state of Louisiana...
- Baton Rouge (established 1972)
- Pennington Biomedical Research CenterPennington Biomedical Research CenterThe Pennington Biomedical Research Center, located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a campus of the Louisiana State University System and conducts both clinical and basic research. According to its website, its mission is to promote healthier lives through research and education in nutrition and...
in Baton Rouge
- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans (established in 1931).
- Louisiana State University at AlexandriaLouisiana State University at AlexandriaLouisiana State University at Alexandria is located in Alexandria, Louisiana. Louisiana State University at Alexandria is a publicly supported institution that provides undergraduatelevel college education to the citizens of Central Louisiana. The university is a unit of the LSU System and operates...
(opened 1960)
- Louisiana State University at EuniceLouisiana State University at EuniceLouisiana State University Eunice is a community college located in Eunice, Louisiana, that currently serves around 3,300 full and part-time students.LSU Eunice currently offers degrees and diplomas up to the associate's degree level...
(opened 1967)
- Louisiana State University in ShreveportLouisiana State University in ShreveportLouisiana State University in Shreveport is a branch of the Louisiana State University System in Shreveport, Louisiana. Opened in 1967, LSUS is the only public four-year university in the Shreveport-Bossier metro area....
(opened 1967)
- Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center ShreveportLouisiana State University Health Sciences Center ShreveportLouisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport is the academic center for medicine and medical research in North Louisiana. It is located in Shreveport and is part of the Louisiana State University System. The medical school opened in 1969. One of its founders was Dr. Joe E...
(classes began 1969).
- Paul M. Hebert Law CenterPaul M. Hebert Law CenterThe Paul M. Hebert Law Center is a law school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, part of the Louisiana State University System and located on the main campus of Louisiana State University....
- Baton Rouge (became separate institution in 1977)
Health Care Services Division (Public Hospital System)
- Bogalusa Medical Center, BogalusaBogalusa, LouisianaBogalusa is a city in Washington Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 13,365 at the 2000 census. It is the principal city of the Bogalusa Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Washington Parish and is also part of the larger New Orleans–Metairie–Bogalusa...
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- Doctor Walter O. Moss Regional Medical Center, Lake CharlesLake Charles, LouisianaLake Charles is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Located in Calcasieu Parish, a major cultural, industrial, and educational center in the southwest region of the state, and one of the most important in...
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- Earl K. Long Medical Center, Baton RougeBaton Rouge, LouisianaBaton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and is the second-largest city in the state.Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, and research center of the American South...
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- Huey P. Long Medical Center, PinevillePineville, LouisianaPineville is a city in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is adjacent to the city of Alexandria, and is part of that city's Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 13,829 at the 2000 census....
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- Lallie Kemp Regional Medical Center, IndependenceIndependence, LouisianaIndependence, originally known as Uncle Sam, is a town in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,724 at the 2000 census...
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- Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center, HoumaHouma, LouisianaHouma is a city in and the parish seat of Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, and the largest principal city of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city's powers of government have been absorbed by the parish, which is now run by the Terrebonne Parish...
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- Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (MCLNO)Medical Center of Louisiana at New OrleansThe Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans is the official name of two teaching hospitals in New Orleans, Louisiana. Both hospitals are part of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, commonly referred to as the LSU Medical School in New Orleans.The two hospitals...
, New OrleansNew Orleans, LouisianaNew Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...
.- Charity HospitalCharity HospitalCharity Hospital was one of two teaching hospitals which were part of the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans . Three weeks after the events of Hurricane Katrina, then Governor Kathleen Blanco said that Charity Hospital would not reopen, even though the military had scrubbed the building to...
(1736), New Orleans. - University HospitalUniversity Hospital, New OrleansUniversity Hospital is one of two teaching hospitals which are part of the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans .- Organization. :...
, New Orleans.
- Charity Hospital
- University Medical Center, LafayetteLafayette, LouisianaLafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. The population was 120,623 at the 2010 census...
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The LSU system has a presence in all 64 Louisiana parishes through its cooperative extension service. This service assists farmers, gardeners, and other businesses in dealing with some of Louisiana's unique environmental challenges.
Current LSU System board members
- James W. Moore, Jr. (Chairman)
- Ben W. Mount (Chairman-elect)
- R. Blake Chatelain (Past chairman)
- Robert Yarborough (Member-at-large)
- Ryan Perkins (Student-member)
- Jack A. Andonie (District 1)
- Stanley J. Jacobs (District 1)
- J. Stephen Perry (District 2)
- Roderick K. West (District 2)
- Garret Danos (District 3)
- Anthony G. Falterman (District 3)
- John George (District 4)
- Raymond J. Lasseigne (District 4)
- R. Blake Chatelain (District 5)
- James W. Moore, Jr. (District 5)
- Ronald R. Anderson (District 6)
- Alvin Kimble (District 6)
- Ben W. Mount (District 7)
- Laura A. Leach (District 7)