LSU wants renovations to boost graduate school recruitment

William Worger, the new Graduate School dean at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, excitedly shows off the ongoing renovations in David Boyd Hall that will soon house the showpiece LSU Graduate School offices. Worger, a quirky and outgoing New Zealand native, is tasked with unifying LSU’s graduate programs and showing off LSU’s academic “treasures” in order to substantially increase the graduate-level enrollment. The renovated David Boyd Hall will be used as a recruiting tool for graduate students just as the LSU Cox Communications Academic Center helps draw in student-athletes.