Grambling State University News

CHRIS GRANGER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Members of the Grambling State University band celebrate as the final minutes click during their win over Southern University at the Bayou Classic at the Louisiana Superdome on Saturday, November 28, 2009.

Community work, snazzy bands and fancy stepping, along with appearances by a dancer and a genuine hero, are on tap Friday and Saturday as part of the 36th annual State Farm Bayou Classic .

Whether it was deliberate or not, the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System on Monday, Nov.

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.

Frank George Pogue Jr. was named interim president of Grambling State University during a special meeting of the Executive Committee of the University of Louisiana System board of supervisors today.

A crowded bus plunged down a steep mountain gorge in northern India on Friday, killing 32 people, a local official said.

Grambling State University is reversing a key element of its long-term campus master plan and is reopening parking on the main quad and designated spaces on Main Street.

The University of Louisiana System could name an interim president for Grambling State University at a Monday meeting in Baton Rouge.

All three University of Louisiana System schools in the region are readying to distribute the H1N1 flu vaccine to students and faculty, groups among the most vulnerable to contract the virus.

The Department of Theatre Arts at Grambling State University presents 'BLUE' by Charles Randolph-Wright at 7 p.m. Nov.

After two terms of flamboyant, arrogant Edwin Edwards, Dave Treen's ingrained modesty was - for a time, at least - a welcome trait in the Louisiana governor's chair.

Two or more buses carrying members of the renowned Grambling State University marching band were involved in a traffic crash in southern Arkansas, injuring at least a half-dozen people.

GRAMBLING - Former Grambling State University President Horace Judson said Tuesday his administration helped transform GSU by creating high standards and termed efforts by the Student Government Association and Faculty Senate to pass no-confidence resolutions against him "disingenuous." Judson resigned as GSU's president two weeks ago.

Monday was a bad day for Grambling State University to be in the middle of a leadership transition.

Demequa R. Williams and Donald R. Lanceslin Jr., both of Katy, Texas, were united in marriage on October 10, 2009, at Brookhollow Baptist Church.

BATON ROUGE - Instead of worrying about whether it has too many state universities, Louisiana needs to concentrate on making the ones it has the best they can be, an out-of-state expert who is serving on a state review panel said.

Grambling State University could be facing some shake-ups in its course offerings and how it markets itself to increase enrollment.

University of Louisiana System President Randy Moffett said today he expects the board of supervisors to hire an interim replacement for outgoing Grambling State University President Horace Judson within the next week to 10 days.

BATON ROUGE - Grambling State University could be facing some shake-ups in its course offerings and how it markets itself to increase enrollment.

The 34th annual observance of The Vera Hollis Blackshear Education Fund, Inc., will be held at 11 a.m. Sunday, Oct.