BATON ROUGE – In the early 1980s with a dream of playing college basketball, F. King Alexander eyed LSU as a possible destination. While he ultimately played four years of college basketball for St. Lawrence University in New York, years later, he has been tabbed to “run the point” in a much larger capacity.

Alexander, president of California State University Long Beach, has been recommended by the Presidential Search Committee as the consensus candidate for the position of President of LSU.

“It is indeed a great honor for me to be nominated to be president of this very, very great and fine institution,” Alexander said. “I’m humbled that the Board of Supervisors would put their faith and trust in me to be the administrator of this great and important university with its reach to every parish throughout the state, from Shreveport to New Orleans.”

The president of Xavier University, Norman Francis,  will be the keynote speaker at a jazz brunch hosted by the Baton Rouge Chapter of the  Xavier University Alumni Association.

The brunch will be held March 24 from 11a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Lod Cook alumni Conference Center, 3838 West Lakeshore Drive,  on LSU's campus in Baton Rouge. A silent auction will also be held.

Tickets are $50.  Proceeds will be used to fund scholarships.

For more information, call (225) 205-1544 or (225) 939-7346.  Tickets will also be available at the door.

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BATON ROUGE – The free Louisiana Resiliency Assistance Program, or LRAP, run by the LSU College of Art & Design’s Coastal Sustainability Studio, or CSS, has launched a website, www.resiliency.lsu.edu, which provides village, town, city and parish governments with a profusion of informational resources, access to professional experts, a platform for networking between jurisdictions and a webinar and workshop series, “Planning for a Resilient Future.”

The purpose of the new website is to serve as a tool to help Louisiana municipalities prepare for an uncertain future in the dynamic coastal environment.

Louisiana communities face serious vulnerabilities related to natural disasters and climate change: sea level rise land subsidence, changes in rainfall patterns, wetlands loss, storm surge and increased storm strength, to name but a few. Most of these communities, however, do not have access to the resources or expertise needed to adequately address these serious issues. The new LRAP website fills this gap.