Louisiana State University
Public university in Baton Rouge
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| 2024 | LSU won a national championship in Women's Gymnastics. |
| April 2024 | An investigative report by The Guardian and The Lens revealed LSU's corporate influence on academic research, exposing how corporations were granted powers to review and influence university research and coursework in exchange for donations. |
| 2023 | LSU won national championships in Baseball and Women's Basketball. |
| 2023 | U.S. News & World Report ranked LSU 185th in the national universities category and 101st among public universities. |
| December 2023 | A federal jury dismissed all claims in Sharon Lewis' lawsuit against LSU. |
| October 2023 | Mike Johnson became Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. |
| October 2023 | A judge sanctioned LSU in a federal lawsuit related to the tennis program after university-issued phones of former coaches Julia and Michael Sell were deleted, who were accused of failing to act on sexual assault reports. |
| August 2023 | LSU sent a 'Partnership Update' to ExxonMobil, confirming ExxonMobil as the first 'strategic partner'-level donor with voting rights on research activities, with at least eight other companies discussing similar deals. |
| 2022 | U.S. News & World Report categorized LSU-Baton Rouge as 'more selective' in its annual ranking. |
| 2022 | Shell donated $25 million to LSU, receiving a seat on the board of the LSU Institute for Energy Innovation with rights to vote on research activities and review study output. |
| December 2022 | A federal jury dismissed all claims in Sharon Lewis' $50 million lawsuit against LSU regarding sexual misconduct reporting. |
| July 2022 | Trial dates were scheduled for major lawsuits: Sharon Lewis' $50 million lawsuit set for May 22, 2023, and the student Title IX lawsuit set for June 26, 2023. |
| January 2022 | Sharon Lewis, LSU's Assistant Athletic Director, filed a $50 million federal lawsuit alleging harassment and wrongful termination for reporting sexual misconduct. |
| 2021 | LSU won a national championship in Men's Outdoor Track and Field. |
| 2021 | Louisiana State University received 36,561 applications for the first-year class, with an admission rate of 70.9% and 7,045 students ultimately enrolling. |
| 2021 | LSU enrolled over 28,000 undergraduate and more than 4,500 graduate students across 14 schools and colleges, maintaining its classification as an R1: Doctoral University with very high research activity. |
| June 2021 | Football coach Ed Orgeron was added as a defendant to a Title IX lawsuit, alleged to have been aware of and failed to report a rape allegation involving former running back Derrius Guice. |
| May 6 2021 | William F. Tate IV was named the new president of LSU, effective in July. He became the first African-American president in LSU's history and the first African-American president in the SEC. |
| April 2021 | Department of Education opened a second federal investigation analyzing LSU's handling of sexual assault and harassment complaints from the 2018-2019 academic year. |
| March 2021 | Husch Blackwell LLP released a 262-page report confirming the USA Today investigation, revealing widespread problems within the university. |
| February 2021 | US Department of Education announced a formal federal investigation into LSU's reported mishandling of sexual misconduct cases, focusing on potential Clery Act violations. |
| January 2021 | Linda Thomas-Greenfield appointed as United States Ambassador to the United Nations by President Joe Biden. |
| 2020 | LSU broke its record for the most diverse and largest freshman class in history, with 6,690 freshmen, over 30% students of color, and an all-time highest total enrollment of 34,290 undergraduate and graduate students. |
| November 2020 | USA Today published an investigative report accusing LSU of mishandling sexual misconduct claims against LSU football players. |
| June 2020 | LSU Board of Supervisors voted to remove Troy H. Middleton's name from the university's main library, responding to student protests about Middleton's racist past, with support from Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards. |
| 2019 | Joe Burrow became the second LSU player to win the Heisman Trophy. |
| 2019 | LSU won its fourth Football national championship. |
| 2019 | LSU reported that 16% of undergraduate men and 27% of undergraduate women were active participants in the university's Greek life system. |
| 2019 | Forbes magazine ranked LSU as the 192nd best overall university in the nation. |
| 2019 | The university received 24,501 applications, admitted 18,272 students, and enrolled 6,132 first-year students with a yield rate of 33.6%. |
| 2018 | Alex Bregman and Aaron Nola were both selected as Major League Baseball All-Stars. |
| 2018 | LSU processed 24,280 applications, admitted 18,024 students, and enrolled 5,812 first-year students with a yield rate of 32.2%. |
| 2017 | LSU officially introduces Mike VII, who was formerly named 'Harvey'. |
| 2017 | The university received 17,907 applications, admitted 13,236 students, and enrolled 4,917 first-year students with a yield rate of 37.1%. |
| 2016 | LSU received 18,122 applications, admitted 13,843 students, and enrolled 5,475 first-year students with a yield rate of 39.6%. |
| 2015 | LSU won a national championship in Men's Golf. |
| 2014 | The SEC changed scheduling, separating LSU and Arkansas on the final weekend of the regular season. LSU began playing Texas A&M on the final weekend instead. |
| 2014 | Tiger Stadium underwent an expansion, increasing its capacity to 102,321 fans, making it the sixth-largest college football stadium in the nation and third-largest in the SEC. |
| 2013 | F. King Alexander was named President of Louisiana State University. |
| 2012 | LSU and Alabama met in the BCS National Championship Game, marking the first time the standalone game featured two teams from the same conference. |
| 2012 | The Society of Professional Journalists names the Reveille 'Best All-Around Daily Student Newspaper' in their Mark of Excellence awards. |
| 2012 | LSU was censured by the American Association of University Professors for firing Professor Ivor van Heerden after his critical comments about the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' levee design following Hurricane Katrina. |
| 2011 | Louisiana Legislature transferred the University of New Orleans from Louisiana State University to the University of Louisiana System. |
| 2010 | LSU and Arkansas end their practice of playing in Little Rock, concluding a 16-year period of alternating game locations. |
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