Worger aims to make LSU best place to study
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William Worger excitedly shows off the ongoing renovations in David Boyd Hall that will soon house the showpiece LSU Graduate School offices.
Worger, the new Graduate School dean and a historian by nature, points out the old “vault” closet, where LSU’s original treasurer’s office on the campus was located.
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.
“This is an institution that really wants to put a great deal more emphasis on graduate education,” said Worger, who was the associate dean of graduate studies at the University of California at Los Angeles.
“I like the idea of being at an institution that wants to grow,” he said.
Traditionally, LSU is more of an undergraduate institution. But LSU also is classified as a top-tier research university.
LSU System President John Lombardi and Chancellor Michael Martin want to grow the main campus from 28,000 to 32,000 students.
Much of that must be done on the graduate level — master’s and doctoral degrees — which should grow from 15 percent of the student body now to 20 percent, LSU Provost Astrid Merget said.
Currently, LSU enrolls more than 4,400 graduate students, nearly 2,000 of whom are doctoral students. But in 1995, LSU had more than 5,200 graduate students.
If LSU grows to its enrollment goal of 32,000, there would have to be 6,400 graduate students to hit the 20 percent mark.
Merget said she expects Worger to “mobilize and deploy.” That means mobilizing the academic strengths of LSU and deploying more recruiting efforts.
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