BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — LSU announced the approval of a research merger involving two university health sciences centers.
In June, the Board of Trustees of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) approved merging LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans and LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport as branch campuses of LSU. The merger went into effect on Aug. 1.
“The work happening every day on LSU’s flagship campus in Baton Rouge is complementary to that of our research-intensive centers across the state, and this designation recognizes that,” Chancellor Jim Dalton said…