Welcome to the Southern University Alumni Federation

Welcome to the Southern University Alumni Federation’s (SUAF) web site.  We hope the information listed on this site will be helpful to our alumni and friends.  This web site is designed with you in mind.  You are invited and urged to browse the site and give us your feedback.  If you have suggestions or links you would like to see added, please e-mail me directly at DRutledge@sualumni.org.

We also want to take this opportunity to thank you for all you do for Southern University, especially for being an active member of your Alumni Federation and for promoting your university in so many ways -- by wearing your SU apparel, by displaying SU items in your office for all to see and most of all by sending your children to SU and encouraging others to do likewise.  By so doing, you demonstrate in a meaningful way, that Southern University is your institution of choice!

If you are not a member of the SUAF, we invite you to join our ever-growing team, for we need you. To join, please go to the Join the SUAF section of our Web site as well as provide your updated contact information by visiting the Update Your Alumni Record section.  When you visit the Baton Rouge campus, be sure to stop by the Office of Alumni Affairs for information or assistance.  In the meantime, if any of our staff members can be of any assistance to you, please don't hesitate to contact our office at 225-771-4200.  Thank you again for your support of Southern University through your Alumni Federation.
 

Dr. Kofi Lomotey Selected as Chancellor for Southern University Baton Rouge Campus

Dr. Kofi Lomotey's Bio:
Southern University Board of Supervisors has appointed Dr. Kofi Lomotey as chancellor of Southern University and A&M College at Baton Rouge.

Lomotey is executive vice president, provost and professor of education at Fisk University. He holds a doctorate and master's degree in Educational Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University, a master's of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from Cleveland State University and a bachelors' in Economics with a minor in Black Studies from Oberlin College.

Before coming to Fisk, Lomotey served as president and professor of Education at Fort Valley State University, senior vice president, provost and professor of Education at Medgar Evers College, chair and professor of Administrative and Foundational Services in the College of Education at Louisiana State University, as well as other administrative and teaching posts at State University of New York at Buffalo and the University of California-Santa Cruz.

He also founded and served as principal of Shule Ya Kujitambua in Oberlin, Ohio and served as a senior fellow with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities.

Lomotey holds several professional memberships, including a position on the board of directors for Xechem International, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that engages in research, development and production of generic and proprietary drugs from natural sources and serves on the Board of Trustees for Oberlin College.

Lomotey has authored and co-authored more than seven books, published numerous journal articles, technical reports, training manuals and textbook chapters.

He and his wife, A. Nahuja, have three children.

The chancellor of Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College is the chief administrative officer of the Baton Rouge campus. The chancellor reports to the president of the System and is responsible for all activities of the Baton Rouge campus, including, but not limited to, academic, financial, student and administrative affairs, and for other support activities.