LSU Women's Center

Years of ongoing dialogue among students, staff, and faculty about the need for a women’s center at LSU came to fruition in the fall of 1995. Original funding was secured from the Assistant Vice Chancellor and Dean of Students, and the Women's Center rented Hodges 129 and 130 from Residential Life. The Center officially opened on October 5, 1995 under the direction of Barbara Jackson, joining 400 such centers at colleges and universities across the nation.

The Center was forced to relocate to Hatcher Hall in 1999 and in 2001 the students lobbied for a more accessible and adequate location for the growing Center by garnering over 3,000 signatures in the form of a student petition; Student Government also passed a resolution in favor of the Women’s Center’s move to a new location. During the summer of 2001, the LSU Women's Center moved to the Helen M. Carter House on Raphael Semmes Road. In January 2011, the Women’s Center moved to its current temporary space in 307 Hatcher Hall.

The Women’s Center Expansion project was completed in 2013 and we are housed at 5 Union square.