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Louisiana insider chosen to lead Southern: as the new Southern University System president, Dr. Ralph Slaughter says rebuilding the New Orleans campus and bringing back accountability are first and foremost.

Publication: Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Publication Date: 20-APR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Louisiana insider chosen to lead Southern: as the new Southern University System president, Dr. Ralph Slaughter says rebuilding the New Orleans campus and bringing back accountability are first and foremost.(NOTEWORTHY NEWS)

Article Excerpt
BATON ROUGE, LA.

Taking the helm of the historically Black Southern University system in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is turning out to be a wild ride, but Dr. Ralph Slaughter is confident that he's up to the task of running the nation's largest HBCU system.

"As long as you're working for somebody else, you really have to work in lockstep with their vision and their goals. But now I can take my own goals and ideas, and bring those to fruition,'" says Slaughter, who had been the system's number two administrator for nearly a decade.

Those goals include rebuilding the hurricane-ravaged Southern University at New Orleans campus, strengthening the system's academic programs and bringing accountability to the system, which was recently rocked by a grade-buying...

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