BATON ROUGE (AP) — The Manship School of Mass Communication at LSU has received two donations totaling $2.55 million.
The university announced the gifts from two families in a news release Monday.
A $1.35 million gift from Charles and Carole Lamar will go toward expanding the Lamar Family Visiting Scholars program, while $1.2 million from the Manship family will complete the nation's first endowed chair in media diversity.
The increased funds from the Lamars will boost the stipend for the already-established visiting scholar position, which is held by a communications practitioner, and create a second visiting scholar position for a post-doctoral researcher.
According to the news release, the Manship family's newly established chair holder will teach courses in media diversity and conduct research on news coverage of racial issues.
