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All academic advisors will conduct individual academic advising appointments via Zoom. We’re all navigating this process and we know there will be a learning curve. We appreciate your patience, flexibility and overall understanding during this time! Please click the link above for more information.

While Latson is well on her way to achieving her goals, her journey has been a complicated one. The first obstacle Latson faced was pregnancy. Due to complications and the responsibilities of being a single mother, she took a break from school. “Life has its way of throwing curve balls at you,” reflected Latson. Life seemed to have other plans for Latson. The more time passed, the more her dreams began to fade.

Prior to moving back to Shreveport, where she was raised, La’Dereka McCray was living in Sacramento, California working as a hairstylist. Upon her return to Shreveport, she decided to pursue a new career path knowing that she wanted to create a life for her and her child that would provide stability and a consistent income. Once enrolled at SUSLA, McCray felt slightly out of place due to being older than most of the students she saw on campus.

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted every aspect our lives. With unprecedented unemployment levels, many of our friends and neighbors are relying on public assistance for the first time and wondering what the future will look like for them and their families. 70% of small businesses that were forced to temporarily close during the pandemic are not expected to re-open.

LIVE MEDIA EVENT DECEMBER 14th Southern University at Shreveport (SUSLA) Veterans Upward Bound is hosting a toy drive on December 8-16, 2020 to benefit families in the community and Toys for Tots. Toys are being collected at SUSLA’s Main campus located at 3050 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive in Shreveport and the Metro Campus at 610 Texas Street in Downtown Shreveport. 

The nonpartisan SU Votes! initiative of the Southern University System continues its mission to encourage education, registration and participation in the voting process on local, state and national levels. For more information click the link above and go to sus.edu/vote for view a guide of current issues on ballots.

Veterans Upward Bound Presents Veterans Day Celebration on November 11, 2020. Click the link above for more details.

Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport & Willis Knighton Health System prepared guidelines to help SUSLA staff and campus administrators return to campus safely amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Southern University Board of Supervisors has approved the request that will enable Southern University at Shreveport students to purchase access to e-books. The current e-book initiative will be implemented in partnership with Follett, in what is termed Follett ACCESS. Click E-BOOK Program above for more information.