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Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 62
BY REPRESENTATIVE SMITH
A RESOLUTION
To recognize Monday, April 7, 2014, as LSU Day at the state capitol.
WHEREAS, LSU has provided high-quality education services for one hundred
fifty-four years, and offers solutions for the scientific, social, and economic needs of
Louisiana; and
WHEREAS, LSU enrolls 43,142 students from every parish in the state at its
institutions and offers degrees in more than one hundred fields, ranging from associate to
doctoral degrees; and
WHEREAS, in 2013, LSU awarded 8,740 degrees in its continuing mission to meet
the workforce demands of the state and nation; and
WHEREAS, the almost fourteen thousand faculty and staff employed by LSU
throughout the state fulfill roles in teaching, research, outreach, and healthcare; and
WHEREAS, currently more than three thousand two hundred LSU scholars are
conducting federally funded projects for twenty-four federal agencies and commissions
totaling $591 million; these projects cover more than two hundred seventy-five fields
ranging from coastal restoration to health outcomes to better education to national defense;
and
WHEREAS, LSU conducts outreach and services for communities in all sixty-four
parishes of the state on issues of agriculture, aquaculture, rural development, health and
mental health, nutrition, education, flood protection, small business development, animal
health, arts and culture, finance, and law, among others; and
WHEREAS, LSU's efforts generate an economic impact of $3.9 billion in Louisiana,
which includes 36,757 jobs that are critical to the citizens of our state; in addition to the
tremendous financial contributions are the benefits of student, faculty, and staff
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WHEREAS, Louisiana is served by the good works of LSU across the state and her
citizens can be confident in looking to LSU for solutions to all manner of challenges.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the House of Representatives of the
Legislature of Louisiana does hereby recognize Monday, April 7, 2014, as LSU Day at the
state capitol and does hereby commend the dedicated work and contributions of the
employees and students of LSU to the great state of Louisiana.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a suitable copy of this Resolution be transmitted
to LSU President and Chancellor F. King Alexander.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATI VES