Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University

▪ university system, Lousiana, United States
      state system of higher education in Louisiana, U.S. It consists of nine facilities—seven coeducational institutions and two research centres—in five cities.

      The main institution, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, is a land-grant (land-grant college) and sea-grant university located in Baton Rouge. It offers comprehensive undergraduate and graduate programs and is noted for its extensive research facilities, operating some 800 sponsored research projects. Among these facilities are the Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices and the Center for Coastal, Energy, and Environmental Resources. The Baton Rouge campus also includes two other components of the state system: the Paul M. Hebert Law Center and the headquarters of the Louisiana State University Agricultural Center.

      Other facilities of the state system are a university branch and medical school in Shreveport, the University of New Orleans, the Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans, a pair of two-year community colleges, located in Eunice and in Alexandria, and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge. There are about 29,000 students enrolled at the main university, and total enrollment in the state university system is approximately 57,000.

      Louisiana State University began with a series of grants—in 1806, 1811, and 1827—by the U.S. government for the creation of a seminary. The school, Louisiana Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, was established by state legislation in 1853 and opened near Pineville in 1860. William Tecumseh Sherman (Sherman, William Tecumseh) was its first superintendent, a post he soon resigned to become an officer in the Union Army. The school was closed twice during the American Civil War and burned in 1869; it reopened in Baton Rouge that same year. In 1870 the school's name was changed to Louisiana State University. In 1877 it received land-grant status (based on the Morrill Act of 1862) and merged with Louisiana State Agricultural and Mechanical College; it received sea-grant status (based on the Sea Grant College Program Act of 1966) in 1978. The Louisiana State University system was established by the state legislature in 1965.

      Notable alumni include shot-putter Jack Torrance (Torrance, Jack), basketball players Bob Pettit (Pettit, Bob) and Pete Maravich, and gridiron-football player Y.A. Tittle. The influential literary quarterly The Southern Review (1935–42) was founded at Louisiana State University by Cleanth Brooks (Brooks, Cleanth), Robert Penn Warren (Warren, Robert Penn), and Charles W. Pipkin.

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