BATON ROUGE, La. ( Louisiana Illuminator ) – The committee tasked with finding LSU’s next president will hire a Louisiana firm to guide its search.

At its first meeting Tuesday, the search committee announced it would work with SSA Consultants of Baton Rouge with the aim of finding a candidate by the end of the year. SSA’s experience primarily involves recruiting executives for the finance, general business, construction, health care, nonprofit and public sectors.

The committee will meet three times this fall before submitting its recommendations to the LSU Board of Supervisors, which has the final vote on who will lead the LSU System and the Baton Rouge campus. The search process hopes to forward three and five finalists for the board.

LSU Board Chairman Scott Ballard said he hoped t

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