1. TRANSITION ADVISORY
TEAM MEETING
April 16, 2013 | 10 a.m. to 2p.m.
LSU AgCenter, 212 Efferson Hall

2. Dr. Bill Jenkins
Interim President, LSU System
WELCOME

3. Transition Advisory Team Members
SUB-COMMITTEE UPDATES
AND KEY PRIORITIES

4. Academic Sub-Committee
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 Collaboration across campuses for undergraduate
curricula standards
 Single admissions approach (despite different
admission standards)
 Tenure policies that reflect the different campus
missions but would allow for collaboration and
movement within that discipline/department
across campuses
 Innovative tenure policies
 Graduation rates improvement

5. Research and Discovery Sub-Committee
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 Trends in federally funded research generated by campus
 Recruitment and retention of highly qualified faculty
 Increase research volume and quality
 Increase research funding from USDA, state, business, and industrial
sources
 Increase Ph.D. degrees across broad disciplinary categories
 Increase postdoctoral appointments
 Improving graduation rates
 Increase graduate student enrollment
 Develop additional collaborative research projects between LSU A&M,
Pennington, and the LSU HSC campuses
 Develop consensus or a process for developing priority research areas
across campuses
 Undergraduate research

6. Student Experience Sub-Committee
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 Student recruitment in-state and out-of-state
 LSU has 12.5 recruiters mostly in Louisiana; Alabama
has 40+ in 24 states (some universities use alum)
 Our recruiters handle approximately 2000 applications
and Alabama handles about 500 each
 Student retention and graduation rates
 On campus housing and freshman retention, building
a community
 Workforce and career opportunities

7. Administrative Services Task Force
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 Insurance and risk management
 EHS
 Systems consolidations
 Legacy system
 Accounting
 ERP
 Professional services contracts
 Forming procurement task force

8. Revenue Generation Task Force
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 Online learning
 Opportunities for monetization for each campus
 Generating revenue
 Helping university refocus on core competencies
 Mechanisms for privatization
 Current assets

9. Technology Task Force
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 Promoting efficiencies
 Consolidation of various administration systems
(email, telephone, etc.)
 Workflows and processes
 Developing and ascertaining needs for system wide
approach verses a completely decentralized
approach
 Review of industry best practices

10. Commercialization and Technology
Transfer Task Force
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 Benchmarking and organization of tech transfer
 Solicited input from
 Private investor organizations
 Louisiana Economic Development
 LSUHSC
 Other universities
 Revenue for tech transfer supports, but does not
fund research

11. External Affairs Task Force
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 Branding across campuses
 Marketing efforts across campuses
 Hub and spoke model
 Website integration

12. Streamlining Procedures, Rules, and
Regulations Task Force
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 Human resources polices
 Obstacles in salary approvals and effect on
recruitment of talent
 Delegation of authority
 Bottlenecks
 Legislative hindrances

13. Dr. Christel Slaughter
SSA Consultants
INTRODUCTION OF THE
SPEAKER

14. Stephen Moret
Secretary of Louisiana Economic Development
THE ROLE OF HIGHER
EDUCATION IN ECONOMIC
GROWTH IN LOUISIANA

15. Walter Isaacson, Louisiana Native, CEO of the Aspen Institute, and
Biographer of Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein
THE FUTURE OF
HIGHER EDUCATION
AND TECHNOLOGY

16. LUNCH

17. Dr. Christel Slaughter
SSA Consultants
LSU 2015 MISSION AND TENETS

18. Proposed Vision for LSU 2015
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LSU will be a statewide, integrated university
committed to service, rich culture, and bold
enterprise, recognized by peer institutions, faculty,
students, and employers for its high level of
academic achievement and research excellence.

19. Proposed Tenets for LSU 2015
 Build a faculty and learning environment that
inspires academic excellence
 Provide a student living, learning experience that
supports a lifetime of success and understanding
 Produce collaborative and cross-unit discoveries
that solve Louisiana’s and the world’s most
pressing challenges
 Fuel Louisiana’s economic development
 Build a cohesive, accountable, and sustainable
operating model for the 21st century
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20. Transition Advisory Team Members
NEXT STEPS

21. ADJOURNMENT