LSU President William Tate has been selected as the new president of Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he'll start July 1, according to Rutgers' Board of Governors.

Rutgers has hired William F. Tate IV as its new president, and since most of us here in New Jersey are unfamiliar with his work in the same job at Louisiana State, we reached out to the foremost expert on higher education south of the Mason-Dixon Line.

🐅 LSU president William Tate is leaving for the same job at Rutgers. He was the SEC's first Black university president, and is the latest in several high-profile departures for the Baton Rouge campus. ( Louisiana Illuminator) Matt Lee, the dean of agriculture, will serve as LSU's interim president beginning July 1, the university says.