LSU Law professor Andrea Carroll was recently selected to participate in the SEC Academic Leadership Development Program, an initiative to advance faculty as academic leaders among Southeastern Conference institutions.
The SEC Academic Leadership Development Program is a professional growth initiative that seeks to identify, prepare and advance academic leaders for roles within SEC institutions and beyond. It has two components: a university-level development program designed by each institution for its own participants and two, three-day, SEC-wide workshops held on specified campuses for all program participants.
“It is our strong belief that helping to prepare administrators for the next phase of their careers has the potential to impact all of higher education, both now and in the future,” said SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey. “Our universities make a significant investment in these individuals, and we are proud to work with them through this program.”
Carroll is the Interim Associate Dean for Student and Academic Affairs and the Donna W. Lee Professor of Family Law at the LSU Law Center. Before joining the LSU faculty, Carroll clerked for the honorable W. Eugene Davis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She subsequently worked as an associate at the Dallas law firm of Baker Botts, L.L.P., handling appellate litigation.
In 2003, Carroll joined the LSU Law Center, where she has been teaching and writing about family law, community property and property for the past 11 years. She is the author of more than a dozen books and articles in her field, and has recently been published in the Indiana, Tulane, Brooklyn, and Cardozo law reviews. Carroll’s Tulane article on civil law property was honored at the 2005 Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum.
Carroll is also active in law reform in Louisiana, serving as a member of the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute and the Institute’s Persons, Children’s Code, and Adult Guardianship Committees. She led the comprehensive revision of Louisiana’s community property law in the area of reimbursement rights in 2009, the first substantial revision of Louisiana’s community property rules since 1979.
Carroll also led a successful reform of Louisiana’s child relocation rules in 2010. As reporter of the Law Institute’s Marriage and Persons Committee, she continues to work to improve the law related to marriage and family.
Three other LSU professors were selected to the SEC Academic Leadership Development Program: College of Science Associate Dean Richard Kurtz, Mandi Lopez of the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine and Manship School of Mass Communication Associate Dean Andrea Miller.
The four University participants meet weekly with Senior Vice Provost Jane Cassidy, their acting liaison, and work with Vice Provost Matt Lee as well. The participants meet with executive leaders from various departments on campus, such as the Office of Diversity and the Office of Budget and Planning, to learn more about their roles as administrators and the University itself.
Carroll said learning how other universities handle diversity and inclusivity was insightful to her position as associate dean of student and academic affairs, as she runs student orientations at the Law Center.
