William F. Tate IV

William F. Tate IV serves as president of Louisiana State University (LSU). Dr. Tate holds faculty appointments in sociology (primary), psychiatry and behavioral medicine (clinical), epidemiology (secondary), and population and public health (secondary) at the Baton Rouge campus, LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, and Pennington Biomedical Research Center, respectively. He previously served as executive vice president for academic affairs and provost, while holding the Education Foundation Distinguished University Professorship at the University of South Carolina (USC). Dr. Tate formerly served as department chair and dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for Graduate Education at Washington University in St. Louis. He also held the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professorship in Arts & Sciences and served as the William L. and Betty F. Adams Chair at Texas Christian University (TCU) and as a tenured faculty member at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Dr. Tate holds a PhD in mathematics education and human development from the University of Maryland, an MPE in psychiatric epidemiology from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, an MA in mathematical sciences education from the University of Texas at Dallas, and a BA in economics from Northern Illinois University.

updated 2024