LSUS's faculty and staff guide talented students and build a spirit of community and achievement that shape a distinctive future founded on teaching, learning and discovery. The LSUS Administration staff can be considered as the University's backbone. By provided program funding and promoting academic excellence, LSUS administrators have laid a solid foundation.

Office of the Chancellor
Dr. Vincent J. Marsala, LSUS Chancellor, has committed over thirty years of excellence to LSUS. By helping to provide students with the necessary confidence to excel academically, Dr. Marsala is well known throughout LSUS. Dr. Marsala believes in having an open door policy where students and faculty are welcome to share their concerns.

Academic Affairs
The academic units of the University supply the intellectual capital necessary to support the region's intellectual, economic, social, and cultural development. Academic Affairs is capable of doing this by: providing academic programs and recognizing academic excellence; offering continuing education opportunities appropriate to career and lifelong learning; and providing access to information via our Noel Memorial Library with its unique collection.

Business Affairs
This LSUS division ensures that the University uses the financial and physical resources entrusted to it with effectiveness, efficiency, and complete accountability. The Business Affairs Division helps to pave a secure foundation for LSUS students by providing funding and supporting academic excellence.

Development
The Office of Development coordinates all fundraising for the university and supports the LSUS foundation. The office oversees Media and Public Relations and the Office of Alumni and Community Relations.

Student Affairs
The Student Affairs Division helps students establish personal autonomy, form satisfactory personal relationships, and set goals for their years at the University and after. The Division offers personal counseling, social activities, career placement assistance, and record maintenance services.

LSU System
The LSU Board of Supervisors serves as the management board for the Louisiana State University System. The Board is composed of 16 members who serve overlapping terms of six years. Two members are appointed from each congressional district and one member from the state at large. As provided by the Louisiana Constitution, the Board also has a student member who serves a one-year term.

The LSU System, under the leadership of Dr. William L. Jenkins, oversees the state's largest and most comprehensive system of higher education. The system contains facilities and/or programs in each of Louisiana's 64 parishes.

LSU System campuses stretch the length of the state from New Orleans to Shreveport and include LSU Agricultural and Mechanical College in Baton Rouge, LSU Agricultural Center, Hebert Law Center, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, LSU at Alexandria, LSU at Eunice, University of New Orleans, LSU in Shreveport, LSU Health Sciences Center-New Orleans, and LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport.

Board of Regents
The Louisiana Board of Regents was created by Article VIII, Section 5 of the Louisiana Constitution. The Board consists of 15 members representing each congressional district and including a student member elected by the student government associations.

The Regents have extensive powers relating to oversight of public higher education including approval, revision or elimination of degree programs; formulation of a master plan for higher education; and recommendation to the legislature regarding priorities for capital construction and improvements.