After a months-long process and two hours of deliberation by LSU Board of Supervisors, McNeese State University President Wade Rousse is LSU's 29th president.

A Louisiana native, Rousse pitched himself as a nontraditional candidate who would shake up the university with corporate-oriented leadership after past presidents had lengthy academic backgrounds. He said the exact date he will start hasn’t been set.

In an unexpected turn of events Tuesday afternoon, the board simultaneously appointed another finalist for the president position — James Dalton , executive vice president and provost at the University of Alabama — as the executive vice president of LSU. The position will include the traditional chancellor role of the flagship campus in Baton Rouge and signals a significant chan

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