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As Grambling State University prepares for its decennial accreditation visit in early April from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the university is better positioned for the visit than it was last time around, interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Connie Walton says.

The 2010 Louisiana Recreation and Parks Association Annual Conference, LRPA, was held in Ruston/Grambling on Jan.

Check back throughout the day on Wednesday for updates on National Signing Day. We'll have the latest at thenewsstar.com on all of our area athletes as they sign letters of intent to play college ball, with photos from around northeastern Louisiana, as well as complete lists from ULM, Louisiana Tech, Grambling and LSU.

The search for a university leader is one of the most important jobs the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System undertakes.

RUSTON, LA An Ark-La-Tex family is calling for justice five months after the collapse and eventual death of a rising basketball star at Grambling State University.

The mother of Henry White, the late Grambling State University basketball player who died last summer in a Shreveport hospital after collapsing during a punishment training run on the school's campus, sued GSU and the University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors Friday in 1st District Court in Caddo Parish.

GRAMBLING - Interim Grambling State University President Frank Pogue delivered a wide-open, hour-long speech to approximately 250 members of the university community Thursday morning and he didn't hold back.

The Town of Ferriday will look to be at its best on April 1 when the town will be judged as part of the Cleanest City Contest.

It's easy enough to understand the anger felt at area campuses these days. Northeastern Louisiana's three public campuses are enduring their third consecutive savage budget cut - two have occurred at midyear - that have left administrations at ULM, Louisiana Tech and Grambling scrambling to fully serve students despite diminished funding.

Louisiana's state colleges and universities revealed Friday the impact of slicing almost $84 million to cover midyear budget cuts forced by sagging state revenues.

The Grambling State University presidential search committee will meet Feb. 11 in Grambling, at which time it will host a public forum.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Following is one in a series of excerpts from EDDIE ROBINSON " . . . he was the Martin Luther King of Football," a biography of Robinson written by Denny Dressman and scheduled for availability at bookstores in January.

It may be the season to grouse, given the sour mood of the nation and state. Is this a season of discontent? Health care reform has split the nation in two, giving rise to new cynicism.

There's no end in sight to the protracted power struggle between embattled Grambling Mayor Martha Andrus and the town's board of aldermen.

The 10-year anniversary of President Bill Clinton's historic visit to Grambling State University in 1999 almost slipped by me.

Russell Minton said his graduate students Erin Basiger and Casey Nolan did not set out to Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge in search of the flamed tigersnail, thought to be extinct in Louisiana.

Reactions from prominent members of the Grambling State University community to the appointment of Frank G. Pogue as interim president was largely positive this afternoon.

New Grambling State University interim President Frank G. Pogue views himself not so much as a healer, as some have described him, but more as the university's top promoter.

If higher education is cut as substantially as it is being discussed, the impact would be detrimental to the flagship agenda of LSU's Paul M. Hebert Law Center, Chancellor Jack Weiss told members of the Baton Rouge Press Club today.

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