The LSU Board of Supervisors on Tuesday selected Wade Rousse to serve as the university system's next president while also announcing a change to LSU's leadership structure and naming James Dalton as the vice president and chancellor.

The move to separate the chancellor role from the president gig was hinted at during the interview process to find a replacement for former LSU President William Tate IV, who left earlier this year for Rutgers University, and undoes a shift first made in 2012.

Under the proposed structure laid out by Rousse in his acceptance speech, external affairs, governmental affairs and athletics will report to Rousse. Operations on the flagship campus, the AgCenter, the two health science centers and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center will report to Dalton.

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