Not a shock given how the budget was cobbled together during the last regular session, but more cuts to higher ed are coming very soon.
http://www.ksla.com/story/31032382/e...gher-education
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Not a shock given how the budget was cobbled together during the last regular session, but more cuts to higher ed are coming very soon.
http://www.ksla.com/story/31032382/e...gher-education
The liberal Dems getting what the liberal dems and the state deserve for voting in a Democrat.Originally Posted by TechAlum05
http://www.thenewsstar.com/story/new...loom/79178848/
Louisiana Tech University officials face a $4.6 million cut, President Les Guice said.
"The $4.6 million cut that Louisiana Tech is being asked to potentially absorb in this fiscal year will be most challenging and will truly test our ability to fulfill our mission," Guice said in a statement. "Despite the financial challenges that we have faced in recent years, Louisiana Tech’s faculty and staff are second to none and have proven the ability to work together to move our university forward.
"We can’t afford to lose the momentum that has been gained. I have had many conversations with higher education and business leaders and our elected officials who have expressed the desire to navigate this situation and minimize the impacts of these cuts on our state’s public institutions. I am committed to work closely with them to find solutions that are in the best interests of our students and our citizens. Now is the time for all of us to come together to protect the future of our state."
LSU Shreveport will lose up to $1.25 million in state funding if the proposed budget cut falls through, according to school officials. Brooke Rinaudo, LSUS spokeswoman said Chancellor Larry Clark plans to make a statement to the public Monday.
"LSU Shreveport has begun the process of developing a budget scenario of how we would respond to potential mid-year budget cuts," Clark said. "I have requested input from LSU Shreveport campus stakeholders and we anticipate providing a draft of our response to the LSU System on Monday.The threats of these cuts are very real, but I am confident that with the hard work of our community leadership, this request will remain only a budget scenario and that these devastating cuts will not come to pass.”
How's the liberal/Dem "Hope and Change" working out for Louisiana now? You educators that hated Jindal rethinking yet?
Hum....But those local, state and Federal and environmental taxes are disappearing along with the price of gasoline that the dems put on us as well I see. Hum........
No matter who was elected governor, he was going to have to deal with the mess the state's budget is in right now.
Makes you long for the days when we had a Republican governor who never cut the higher education budget, doesn't it?
This new Dem Gov. will be raising your taxes and cutting higher education and profs.
This one promised less than 12 weeks ago that he would not. Many republicans believed him and voted for him because of this.
Honor code my ass...
Or . . . he just took over a runaway train and is just now finding out how mismanaged the budget has been for years.
http://www.katc.com/story/30590290/g...-for-education
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My guess is the threat of drastic higher education cuts will be used as a way for the State Legislature to raise taxes during next month's Special Session. Sort of a "if we don't raise taxes, the universities will get gutted" move.
The threat will likely work.
Anyone who fell for the bait and switch line "I won't do that; oops, I didn't know how bad things were" line is stupid.
LA has suckled on the Katrina-engorged Federal teet for a while. Now it's gone, and so is the severance with oil at $30/barrel.
Promises aside, this was in the cards. He may as well have promised a Louisiana-run space program that launches in Pineville and would colonize Saturn. If any republican pulled the lever for JBE and didn't know this was coming, then they didn't understand LA's finances.
Yep.
And to think that 8 years ago, Jindal was swept in with enough clout to right the ship and still fumbled....
So that's your excuse for him breaking "the ranger code"?
Not as stupid as they were hate filled for the opponent. We both heard many of our friends say, "he has promised he will not cut higher ed."
The honorable Army Ranger was still making that promise after he was elected.
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