Forever LSU: The Campaign for Louisiana State University, is the most ambitious fundraising campaign in school history. The campaign strategy supports the National Flagship Agenda, the plan that will position LSU as one of the leading public institutions in the nation. A group of interest alumni and friends have banded together to launch Flagship Friends Action Network, an action network dedicated to protecting LSU’s budget. LSU alumni and friends interested in supporting LSU’s efforts to fight proposed budget cuts may visit www.flagshipfriends.org. ExxonMobil, Employees Set New Record with $1.16 Million Donation to LSUThe LSU Foundation received a gift of $1,163,585 from the ExxonMobil Foundation. This total represents the matching of 283 gifts to LSU which were eligible for ExxonMobil’s Educational Matching Gift Program in 2008. Read more Scott and Susan Brodie Donate $200,000 to College of Basic Sciences, Honors CollegeThe Brodie gift provides $140,000 in endowed funds to the Science Honors Scholars Program. The remaining $60,000 of the gift establishes the Scott and Susan Brodie Professorship in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Read more Art E. Favre Pledges $1.2 Million to LSU College of EngineeringArt E. Favre has pledged $1.2 million to establish an endowed chair for the benefit of the Department of Construction Management and Industrial Engineering, or CMIE, at LSU in the College of Engineering. Once matched with state funds of $800,000, the chair will total $2 million. Read more |



