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Board approves honorary degree, academic plans and new institutes; librarianship title change added
Summary
The board's Academic Committee approved an honorary Doctor of Engineering for Lori Garrison, annual academic plans, a librarian professional practice title series, a new Institute for the Health and Performance of Champions and a trauma/burn research center for LSU Health New Orleans; several center renewals were approved on consent.
At its Academic Committee meeting, the LSU Board of Supervisors approved multiple academic and organizational items from LSU campuses, including an honorary degree, new institutes and regulatory changes for faculty titles.
Provost Blanchard presented a request to award an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree to Lori Garrison, president and director of the William A. Brookshire Foundation. The provost's presentation said the Brookshire Foundation has supported scholarships, graduate assistantships and capital projects at LSU; the foundation's 2020 gift of $6 million to a scholarship program was described as the largest gift for immediate-use scholarships in LSU history. The board approved the honorary degree by motion.
The board also approved LSU campuses' annual academic plans required by the Board of Regents and a requested amendment to Article 2, Section 6 of the board regulations to add a professional practice title series for librarians — a parallel career path for librarians who are not on the tenure track while retaining tenure-track titles for those who meet tenure requirements.
Provost Blanchard presented and the board approved a request to establish the "LSU Institute for the Health and Performance of Champions," a multidisciplinary research and medical institute to centralize sports medicine, exercise science and human performance. The institute was described as launching with existing secured funding and as linked to an $85,000,000 partnership between LSU and Our Lady of the Lake Health.
From LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, the board approved designation of a Traumatic Injury and Burn Research and Innovation (TIBRI) Center of Research Excellence. The provost's remarks said the center's staff and partners hold over $63,000,000 in active grant support and that $85,000,000 was awarded to related partners over the past five years; the TIBRI center will bring basic, population and clinical investigators together and was described as positioned to support education and accelerate clinical innovation.
Three items on the consent agenda were approved: continued authorization for the Center for Rotating Machinery at LSU A&M (projected revenue $1,730,000 per year), continued authorization of the Neuroscience Center for Research Excellence (NCRE) at LSU Health New Orleans and continued authorization of the Stanley S. Scott Center of Excellence in Cancer Research. The provost noted estimated costs for the centers are not expected to exceed revenues.
All items on the academic agenda were approved by motions recorded in committee; the transcript records the committee votes as "all in favor" and no objections were recorded in the meeting minutes provided in the transcript.
