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LSU Shreveport

Louisiana State University in Shreveport
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Type Public coeducational
Established 1967
Chancellor Larry Clark
Academic staff
137
Students 4,383
Undergraduates 2,819
Postgraduates 1,564
Location Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
32°25′36″N 93°42′22″W / 32.426788°N 93.706234°W / 32.426788; -93.706234Coordinates: 32°25′36″N 93°42′22″W / 32.426788°N 93.706234°W / 32.426788; -93.706234
Campus Urban
Colors Purple and Gold
Athletics NAIA Division IRRAC
Nickname Pilots
Mascot Pete the Pilot
Affiliations LSU System
Website www.lsus.edu
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University rankings
Regional
U.S. News & World Report RNP (South)
Master's University class
Washington Monthly 483

Louisiana State University in Shreveport (LSU Shreveport or LSUS) is a branch institution of the Louisiana State University System located in Shreveport, Louisiana. LSUS opened in 1967 as a two-year community college but transitioned into a four-year college five years later in 1972. LSUS enrolled 4,383 students in the Fall 2015 semester and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The school's athletic programs, nicknamed the Pilots, are members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) and the Red River Athletic Conference. LSUS offers more than 70 extra-curricular organizations. LSUS operates Red River Radio, a public radio network based in Shreveport.

In 1965, Donald Eugene Shipp, Jr. (1919-2016), was named dean of the newly-announced LSU in Shreveport. Just a year earlier, the Plain Dealing native who was reared on a family farm near Haughton in Bossier Parish, had been a mathematics professor and the newly named assistant dean of the college of education at the main LSU campus in Baton Rouge. The campus was built on a cotton field near the Red River in southeastern Shreveport and opened on a limited basis in the fall of 1967. Shipp was named chancellor of LSUS in 1973, when the institution acquired four-year status. Upon his retirement in 1979, the LSU regents named him both professor and chancellor emeritus. Shipp served in the United States Army Air Forces in World War II and the United States Air Force in the Korean War. He obtained his bachelor's degree in mathematics education from Northwestern State University in , Louisiana. In retirement, Shipp was a craftsman of wookworking, painting, and stained glass.


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