Wade Rousse has been selected as the 29th LSU president, replacing former LSU President William Tate IV, who left earlier this year for Rutgers University.

As a Louisiana native and president of McNeese State University, Rousse positioned himself in interviews as a candidate with a nontraditional background who would shake up the university.

Here are five things to know about Rousse as he takes the helm of LSU's sprawling university system, which has multiple campuses across the state and hundreds of millions of research dollars.

He has a business background, but also has a Ph.D.

Rousse graduated from Nicholls State University in 1993 and went into the marine transportation business. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, worked for two years at the

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