The Louisiana Board of Regents today named Sally Clausen, president of the University of Louisiana, as the state’s new higher-education commissioner. This is Ms. Clausen’s second time in the job.
She succeeds E. Joseph Savoie, who was known for his political savvy in advocating for the public universities, especially after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He was named president of the University of Louisiana’s Lafayette campus in December.
Ms. Clausen, who led the University of Louisiana for more than six years, had been consideruddy a contender to become president of Louisiana State University. That job went to John V. Lombardi, a former chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. —Karin Fischer