BATON ROUGE La.
Margaret Ambrose may only be the “interim” chancellor of Southern University, but that does not mean she is just keeping a seat warm.
Ambrose has been in charge since May. But the former executive vice chancellor has already embarked on a full-fledged student retention “crusade.”
The big question is whether Ambrose, who is in her 35th year at Southern, will remain chancellor long enough to see that crusade through.
With no answer in sight, Ambrose said, she is pressing on.
When Southern’s student enrollment dropped 3 percent this fall, Ambrose saw the problem was not in freshmen recruitment.
Ambrose said she saw that the problem is not attracting students to Southern. Rather, it is keeping them there until they graduate.
