Southern University to host virtual Louisiana gubernatorial forum on Sept. 19
Moderating the forum will be student leaders from the four degree-granting campuses of the System — Southern University and A&M College, Southern University Law Center, Southern University at New Orleans, and Southern University Shreveport.
The Southern University System was created in 1974 by constitutional mandate, which fashioned it into the nation’s only historically black 1890 Land-Grant University System. Presently, the System is composed of five institutions: Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College at Baton Rouge (est. 1880), Southern University Law Center (est. 1947), Southern University at New Orleans (est. 1956), Southern University at Shreveport (est. 1964), and the Southern University Cooperative Extension Program (est. 1972), which became the fifth component of the System in 2001 and is now named Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center.