South Carolina House Panel votes to close South Carolina State University for 2 years

[champion110]

The state legislature should select a committee of insiders and outsiders and commission it to make a recommendation about the future of Louisiana higher education. The legislation establishing the committee should clearly state that the recommendation of the committee is to be voted on in whole, without amendment. An up or down vote is the only way that I see any progress being made toward consolidation, closures, etc.

Agreed..... Too bad it won't happen......

[tenacious_dog]

The only way to do this is to close administrations of some of the 4 year universities and keep them as satellite campuses of the successful universities. They keep their name and their professors (although, duplicate programs would eventually be cut and lay off by attrition of some profs). Combine all administrative functions into lsu, Tech, and ULL.

On down the road, a decision to make some into 2 year schools could be made. It won't be popular, but it WILL work and will be more palatable than closing them down in one motion. Plus, it lets the economies of the area adjust slowly. It is a quick help on budget, as well.

Won't happen, though. Hard decisions are not a common commodity in politics.

The one hopeful thing I hear is concern about survival at the schools that are in the poorest financial position. That's a new to the equation. Hopefully that will lead those schools to work toward the best worse-case situation now rather than risk total elimination in the future. Maybe we can start down the path of consolidation this year. There's going to be blood in the water with this year's budget reconciliation.

Otherwise, as others on this board have pointed out, some of these schools face being starved out of existence in the next 3 to 5 - 7 years.

[Soonerdawg]

The state legislature should select a committee of insiders and outsiders and commission it to make a recommendation about the future of Louisiana higher education. The legislation establishing the committee should clearly state that the recommendation of the committee is to be voted on in whole, without amendment. An up or down vote is the only way that I see any progress being made toward consolidation, closures, etc.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c

[champion110]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c

Sam equals ULM in the 1960's "I want to be a 4 year university".