2025-2026 SEC ALDP LSU Fellows

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Four LSU faculty members were selected to participate in the SEC 2025-2026 Academic Leadership Development Program (ALDP) Fellowship.

Jon Cogburn

Professor
Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies

Jon Cogburn is a Professor in the LSU Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. His service in the department has included terms as Director of Undergraduate Studies, Philosophy Section Head, Director of Graduate Studies (DGS) and now Chair of the department. His university and college level service has included multiple terms on LSU Faculty Senate, serving as interim Vice President of the Humanities and Social Sciences Senate, and being a member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee. As Chair, he has reorganized department workflow and helped faculty gain new success with respect to grant activity. His work has been focused toward helping align the department better with the university’s strategic direction by encouraging focus on ethics and the philosophy of emerging technologies, spearheading the completion of a proposal to transition LSU’s master’s degree in philosophy into a PhD program, and achieving greater efficiencies by using the Program Review process to reorganize departmental structure. Cogburn has published 27 peer reviewed journal articles, seven chapters in essay collections, and four substantive introductions to translations and edited volumes. He has published four translations, two edited books, and three monographs. In administrative and intellectual work, he cherishes working with teams and has collaborated with 13 co-writers and co-translators in bringing this work to fruition.

 

Kristin Stair

Professor
Department of Agricultural and Extension Education and Evaluation

Kristin Stair is a Professor of Agricultural Education and has served as the Department Head of the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education and Evaluation at Louisiana State University since 2024. She completed her B. S. degree in Agricultural Information Science and Education at Mississippi State University in 2004. She completed her M. S. in Agricultural Education at North Carolina State University in 2006 and while in North Carolina, taught high school agriculture at Jordan High School in Durham, NC and Southern Nash High School in Bailey, NC. She completed her doctoral work at North Carolina University in 2009 and worked there as a lecturer for a year before she accepted her first faculty position at New Mexico State University as an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education. In 2014, Dr. Stair joined the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education and Evaluation at Louisiana State University. As part of her role at LSU, she has served as the Director for the Agricultural Residential College program, as a faculty member in the AEEE department, and taught several undergraduate and graduate courses in the AEEE department. During her time at LSU, she advanced to full professor and served as the undergraduate coordinator of the department and the director of the AEEE agriculture teacher education program. As part of her faculty role, she has also provided professional development workshops and training for agricultural teachers locally and nationally.

 

Daniel Tirone

Associate Professor
Department of Political Science

Daniel C. Tirone has been a faculty member in the Political Science Department at LSU since 2012. He began his journey into university administration when he joined the Faculty Senate in Fall 2019 and joined the Faculty Senate Executive Committee in the spring of 2022 following his election as Senate Vice President. He was in that role for two years and has been Faculty Senate President since July 2024. While in leadership he has also served as faculty representative on a number of committees across the campus and the LSU system, including serving as Chair of the Council of Faculty Advisors which brings together faculty from each member campus to advise the Board of Supervisors; participating on the Provost’s “Opportunities and Threats Task Force” in the Spring of 2024 to help address the impact of a changing federal funding landscape; and as a member of the President’s Student Success Initiative group. In this latter capacity he was tasked with working through the Faculty Senate to help identify and disseminate pedagogical best practices across campus. In addition to student success, during his time in office he has prioritized matters related to faculty welfare and institutional reform, with a particular focus on updating and improving Senate and University policies. He and his colleagues have also undertaken various initiatives to improve communication between the faculty and numerous administrative units on campus which has allowed for more informed and responsive decision making, leading to increased institutional efficiency and performance.

 

Shannon Walsh

Associate Professor
School of Theatre

Shannon Walsh serves as Associate Dean of Access and Engagement in the College of Music and Dramatic Arts at LSU. In this position she has piloted initiatives focused on enhancing accessibility including ASL interpreted productions, improvements to building accessibility, and serving as the learning management system liaison for the college. Additionally, Walsh launched several engagement programs for faculty, students and staff such as production advocates who support and enhance respectful collaboration in the college’s productions and ensembles, the Access and Engagement committee, and the Present Futures program which strives to connect CMDA students to alumni with similar career paths, life experiences, and backgrounds. Prior to her appointment as Associate Dean Walsh served as the head of the PhD Program in Theatre. Additionally, she serves as the founding faculty rector for the Visual and Performing Arts Residential College, a living-learning community of first-year musicians, actors, designers, architects, composers, technicians, scholars and arts administrators that fosters lifelong connections through the arts and beyond. As a scholar she’s published books and articles focused on performances in sports and physical fitness. Her edited volume, Sporting Performances, was a finalist for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s award for editing. In addition, she serves as series co-editor for Palgrave’s Studies in Theatre and Performance History, and General Editor for the Routledge Performance Archive. She is also an active director and actor in theatre and film at LSU and in Baton Rouge.