Leslie Keith Guice (born December 23, 1954) served as the 14th president of

Louisiana Tech University Louisiana Tech University (Louisiana Tech, La. Tech, or simply Tech) is a public university, public research university in Ruston, Louisiana, United States. It is part of the University of Louisiana System and Carnegie Classification of Institu ...

in Ruston,

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. Guice, who holds a

Ph.D. A Doctor of Philosophy (PhD, DPhil; or ) is a terminal degree that usually denotes the highest level of academic achievement in a given discipline and is awarded following a course of graduate study and original research. The name of the deg ...

Civil Engineering Civil engineering is a regulation and licensure in engineering, professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads ...

, succeeded

Dan Reneau Daniel Dugan Reneau Jr. (born June 11, 1940) is the former president of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana, a position which he filled from July 1, 1987, until his retirement effective June 30, 2013. He was succeeded by Dr. Les Guic ...

as the Louisiana Tech president after a long career at the institution as a student, professor, dean, and vice president of research.

Education

In 1976, Guice received his

Bachelor of Arts A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...

degree in

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and construction, constructi ...

from Louisiana Tech University. He remained at Louisiana Tech until 1978, when he received a master's degree in

and immediately moved to a position as an assistant professor in Tech's department of Civil Engineering. While still employed at Tech, he completed a

in Civil Engineering at

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in College Station,

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Career

Not long after completing his doctorate, Guice was appointed the head of the Civil Engineering department. By 1999, he was the Dean of the College of Engineering and Science. In 2004, he became the Vice President for Research and Development, and on November 29, 2012, Guice was announced as the 14th President of Louisiana Tech University. He announced his intention to retire by the end of the year in September 2023.

Personal life

Guice was inducted in 1978 into the Louisiana Gamma chapter of the

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at Louisiana Tech University. Guice has 3 sons - Chad, Kyle and Bret.

References

External links

Dr. Les Guice's Homepage at Louisiana Tech University
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