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LSU board approves consent agenda including medical school department reorganizations and DNS-to-PhD conversion option
Summary
The Academic Committee presented three consent items, including a reorganization of basic science departments at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans and a petition process allowing prior Doctor of Nursing Science (DNS) graduates to convert to a PhD in Nursing; the board approved the consent agenda without recorded objections.
Provost Drew Blanchard presented a three-item consent agenda to the Academic Committee and to the full Board. The board approved the consent agenda by voice vote after a request for a motion; no roll-call objections were recorded.
Item details presented at the meeting included a reorganization request from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans to reduce the number of basic science departments from four to two. Under that proposal the Department of Genetics would merge with the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology to form a new Department of Microbiology, Genetics, and Immunology; the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology…
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