LSU President William Tate has been selected as the new president of Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he'll start July 1, according to Rutgers' Board of Governors.

Rutgers University has chosen William Tate as its 22nd president at a time of intense pressure on American universities.

Rutgers has hired William F. Tate IV as its new president, and since most of us here in New Jersey are unfamiliar with his work in the same job at Louisiana State, we reached out to the foremost expert on higher education south of the Mason-Dixon Line.