Board approves consent agenda, academic program changes and an endowed‑chair appointment

The Board of Regents approved several consent‑agenda items and academic program actions covering routine staff approvals, program terminations and naming recognition.

Academic staff asked the board to approve a donor‑funded name change at Grambling State University, renaming its College of Business to the Thomas and Joyce Moorhead College of Business and Entrepreneurship, a change brought forward because the donor added an entrepreneurship fellowship. The board also approved five program terminations and the creation of a 36‑hour thesis‑based master's in architecture at LSU A&M, which presenters said would create a research pathway leading toward doctoral study with little additional resource footprint.

Research & Sponsored Initiatives staff recommended the appointment of Dr. Mohammad Kabir Hassan to the James R. Moffatt endowed chair at the University of New Orleans without a national search; presenters described Dr. Hassan as highly accomplished and recommended approval. The board approved the consent agenda and the appointment with no objections recorded in the transcript.