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Season's Greetings From the Southern University System Office of the President

James L. Llorens was selected as the next chancellor of the Southern University, Baton Rouge campus, Friday, April 29, 2011.

The Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center will hold its annual "Connecting Businesses with Contracts" Procurement Conference, Thursday, April 4, 2013. The event will kick-off with registration at 7:30 a.m. in the Smith-Brown Memorial Student Union on the Southern University A&M College campus, 500 Jesse N. Stone Avenue, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Southern University and A&M College is holding its 2014 Centennial Gala at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 17, 2014, at the L'Auberge Casino and Hotel in Baton Rouge. The event is a fundraiser for scholarships and tuition for deserving SU students.

The Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center (SU Ag Center) has a new leader for the second time since it was established in 2001. The Southern University Board of Supervisors Friday, August 26, 2016, named Bobby R. Phills as chancellor/dean of the SU Ag Center and College of Agriculture.

Shreveport native Felise C. Thompson-Doyle, who was crowned the 87th Miss Southern University, during a formal coronation Wednesday, October 4 in SU F.G. Clark Activity Center, reigned over the 2017 Homecoming on the "Bluff.”

University officials are continuing to survey the damages done to the January 18 flooding of the John B. Cade Library. Southern's Custodial and Risk Management team is working with Guarantee Restoration Services to ensure that the library repairs progress.

Southern University will host the 2009 "World Peace: What Does it Mean to You!" forum, at 6 p.m., Thursday, October 1, in the Royal Cotillion Ballroom of the Smith-Brown Memorial Student Union.

The Southern University System awarded more than 1500 degrees to diverse classes among its four campuses spring commencement exercises this May.

Southern University, Shreveport in late August opened its Business and Community Development Center at 646 Hilary Huckaby Avenue across the street from its' Shreveport campus.

Southern University is urging attendees of today's summer commencement ceremonies to arrive early because of parking changes caused by the resurfacing of the F.G. Clark Activity Center Parking lot.

A symposium on "Quality Education as a Constitutional Right and the Role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)" will be hosted by the Southern University and A&M College System (SUS), the Southern University Law Center (SULC), and the SULC Journal of Race, Gender, and Poverty, in partnership with the Mississippi Freedom 50th Anniversary, Wednesday and Thursday, March 26-27, 2014.

The Southern University (SU) Board of Supervisors, Friday, November 25, 2016, named interim chancellor Lisa Mims-Devezin as chancellor of Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO).

The SU Board of Supervisors also unanimously elected Ann A. Smith as chair, and the Rev. Donald R. Henry, as vice chair for 2017, during its regular meeting held in New Orleans.

The 2011 Southern University National Alumni Conference continues through July 10 in Baton Rouge. This year's conference, "Bringing it Back to the Bluff," marks the return of the annual meeting to Baton Rouge, for the first time in 16 years.

The June 2017 "Above and Beyond" Award recipient is a familiar face and name to many in and around the Southern University community. Angela Scott Gaines, SU Law Center facilities manager and technical support specialist for the Law Library, was recognized during the SU Board of Supervisors regular monthly meeting, June 16, at Southern University New Orleans.

The Board of Supervisors for Southern University conforms to Louisiana Revised Statutes, Title 42, Chapter 15. Code of Governmental Ethics.