Louisiana State University-Shreveport

a resolution calling for a feasibility study by the State Department of Education to determine the need for a state college in Shreveport. The resolution passed and the study took two years to complete. It revealed that not only was a public college needed in Shreveport but that the citizens of the area desired it, invigorating debate over its necessity and fiscality. The debate concluded in 1964 with the introduction of House Bill 87. By 1965, the LSU Board of Supervisors formally had established LSUS as an integral division of Louisiana State University and appointed Donald Shipp as the first dean of LSUS. Shipp quickly established a base of operations at the old Line Avenue School with A.J. Howell as the business manager and Fabia Thomas as the registrar and hired the original core faculty. The Line Avenue School remained the center location for the students, faculty, and staff until the completed construction of the three-story Science Building and a two-story Library on the new campus grounds located off …