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Wayne Rousse, former McNeese State president, has been named the new LSU system president.

James Dalton was hired as the chancellor for the Baton Rouge campus, a newly created position.

This new leadership structure is the first of its kind at LSU since 2012.

The appointments come as LSU also seeks to fill vacancies for its football coach and athletics director.

Wayne Rousse, a Louisiana native who spent the past year leading McNeese State, has been named LSU's next system president, while James Dalton was named chancellor of the Baton Rouge main campus in a new position created by the LSU board.

The LSU Board of Supervisors hired Rousse to lead the state's flagship university system Nov. 4 after having narrowed the field to three finalists.

Dalton, executive vic

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