Regents celebrates the achievements of first-generation college students and graduates across Louisiana each November. During our annual #FirstGen Week (November 1-8), we highlight first-gen students on our social media channels. This year, we capped off our #FirstGen Week at Baton Rouge Community College with a roundtable discussion with first-generation students and staff.

For the final podcast episodes of 2024, we recorded the #FirstGen roundtable discussion with BRCC students and staff. What you will hear in their perspectives is our "why" for what we do — it's all about the students. Listen to Part 2 of our special two-part First-Gen episode.

Regents celebrates the achievements of first-generation college students and graduates across Louisiana each November. During our annual #FirstGen Week (November 1-8), we highlight first-gen students on our social media channels. This year, we capped off our #FirstGen Week at Baton Rouge Community College with a roundtable discussion with first-generation students and staff.

For the final podcast episodes of 2024, we recorded the #FirstGen roundtable discussion with BRCC students and staff. What you will hear in their perspectives is our "why" for what we do — it's all about the students. Listen to Part 1 of our special two-part First-Gen episode.

Last month, we kicked off our new (academic) year with our annual Staff Retreat at BRCC’s Automotive Training Center. Not only was it an opportunity to come together as agency staff, but it was also a chance for us to see various training programs up close as BRCC students demonstrated the skills they are learning to enter the workforce.

She walked to the mic in a heart dress and delivered a heartful message. Her message was honest, vulnerable, and powerful. In a room filled with 45 outstanding education majors and their families, the 2024 Louisiana Teacher of the Year Kylie Altier shared how she became a first-grade teacher... all because her first-grade teacher believed in her.

April's Board meeting was the final one for Regent Samuel Gil, who has served as a Student Board member for the past year while also serving as the Student Body President at McNeese State, which he has done for two years. Sam will graduate May 10 with not one, but TWO degrees - an associate's degree in applied and natural sciences and a bachelor's degree in mass communication.

The Ville Platte native joined Commissioner Kim Hunter Reed to look back on his time as a student leader at McNeese and his plans, including graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin.

In February, the Board of Regents hosted its second statewide Meauxmentum Summit, a collection of institutional Academic Deans and Department Chairs as well as advising, faculty, and student affairs leaders to support each campus’s implementation of Louisiana’s Meauxmentum Framework student success strategies.

In February, the Board of Regents hosted its second statewide Meauxmentum Summit, a collection of institutional Academic Deans and Department Chairs as well as advising, faculty, and student affairs leaders to support each campus’s implementation of Louisiana’s Meauxmentum Framework student success strategies.

To kick off our 50th anniversary year and our third season, Commissioner Kim Hunter Reed sat down with new Board Chair, Regent Gary Solomon, Jr.

He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Solomon Group, a leading experiential production agency known for producing major live and televised events the Essence Festival, Major League Baseball

His work extends to renowned immersive destinations like The World of Coca-Cola and The National World War

Inc. Magazine named him to their 30-Under-30 World's Coolest Entrepreneurs list.

As Chair of the Louisiana Board of Regents, he brings this same innovative spirit to advancing education.

Louisiana's Got Talent is an award-winning monthly podcast produced by the Louisiana Board of Regents. To learn more about our work at Regents, visit www.laregents.edu or connect with us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/La_Regents), Facebook (www.facebook.com/LARegents), or Instagram (www.instagram.com/la_regents).

We close out 2023 with a special episode of Louisiana's Got Talent. Regents' Bri Golden sits down four students from Southern University's Fab Lab which was commissioned to design and create a one-of-kind jacket for Commissioner Dr. Kim Hunter Reed for the 50th Bayou Classic.

Louisiana's Got Talent is an award-winning monthly podcast produced by the Louisiana Board of Regents. To learn more about our work at Regents, visit www.laregents.edu or connect with us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/La_Regents), Facebook (www.facebook.com/LARegents), or Instagram (www.instagram.com/la_regents).

With his final term nearing an end, Governor John Bel Edwards sat down with Commissioner Dr. Kim Hunter Reed for a special episode of Louisiana's Got Talent.

Sitting in the Drawing Room at the Louisiana Governor's Mansion, Dr. Reed and Governor Edwards discussed his greatest accomplishments, his legacy, and what's ahead for him and our state as we remain committed to talent development.

Louisiana's Got Talent is a monthly podcast by the Louisiana Board of Regents. To learn more about our work at Regents, visit www.laregents.edu or connect with us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/La_Regents), Facebook (www.facebook.com/LARegents), or Instagram (www.instagram.com/la_regents).