William F. Tate IV

William F. Tate IV serves as president of Louisiana State University. He also 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 has served as executive vice president for academic affairs and as provost, while holding the Education Foundation Distinguished University Professorship at the University of South Carolina. He formerly served as department chair and dean of the Graduate School and vice provost for Graduate Education at Washington University in St. Louis. He has held the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professorship in Arts and Sciences and served as the William L. and Betty F. Adams Chair at Texas Christian University. Tate receive his  MPE in psychiatric epidemiology from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and his PhD in mathematics education and human development from the University of Maryland.

updated 2024