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According to the following article, "informal talks have renewed about Louisiana Tech transferring to the LSU System from the University of Louisiana System."
I'm skeptical about such a move. How would this benefit Tech? And perhaps more importantly, what's in it for LSU?
http://www.businessreport.com/archiv...report/latest/
This is 100% accurate and appears to include Tech getting the med school in Shreveport and LSU-S as well under the Tech name. The article also states that, based on the constitution a study would have to be done with Tech to the LSU system being the second transfer in a year after UNO transferred to the University of Louisiana system. One of my sources tells me that this study was done 20 + years ago and is a feasibility study. At that time it was recommended for Tech to join the LSU system but it did not happen.Originally Posted by mikedog
How does this benefit Tech? Having a professional school with Tech's name on it would be more donor dollars going forward as those jobs are obviously high paying.
What's in it for LSU? To relieve the budget strain of a hospital, med school and additional 4-year campus. Tech would then take on the responsibility of funding these entities is my understanding.
Wow. Can't really see them allowing that, but wow.
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If LSU is wanting to get out from under these facilites because of budget strains, is this something Tech would want to get into?
Cost saving measure (combining lsus and lsumc under a single admin board) cuts costs to the system.
Would be huge for tech if it happened, as mentioned they studied this years ago, but it never went further.
I think it is too big of savings for the state not to take this seriously this time...
I remember when the subject was brought up after Katrina hit Louisiana and the state was looking at ways to save money. The LSU-Ruston topic made for an very interesting SGA President election in 2006 even though Dr. Reneau shot down the name change rumor weeks earlier.
Moving to the LSU System would truly separate Tech from ULL and ULM. The fear I have is if massive budget cuts have to occur in the future, would Tech take the lion's share of cuts as opposed to LSU?
Tech has expanded into the Shreveport-Bossier City market in recent years with the Technology Transfer Center, executive MBA classes, and engineering curriculum agreements with BPCC. Adding the LSU Hospital, Medical School, and LSU-Shreveport under the Tech umbrella would be huge.
Flashback to old Tech to LSU System topics from 2006:
http://www.latechbbb.com/forum/showt...ght=lsu-ruston
http://www.latechbbb.com/forum/showt...ght=lsu-ruston
This would be great for Tech. It will place Tech alongside LSU and make the two schools peer institutions in the state. Their will be 2 flagship reserch instituions, one in the south and one in the north. Getting Shreveport helps Tech in athletics, more television sets, larger enrollment and more support from the Shreveport community all vital for CUSA. We all need to get behind this in a big way.
Yes, because this is the only way Tech will ever be given the ability to have a med school in the state of Louisiana. Once you have the backing for one professional school the sky is the limit for others. Currently, Tech's pre-vet program is the best in the state. I see that as a real possibility down the road.
To have a Louisiana Tech Health Sciences Center with these graduate programs would be HUGE:
- Medicine
- Physicians Assistant
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech-Language Pathology
- Communications Disorders
- Cardiopulmonary Science
- Clinical Laboratory Science
- Biochemistry and Molecular Science
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Cellular Biology and Anatomy
- Microbiology and Immunology
- Molecular and Cellular Physiology
- Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Neuroscience
- Medical Technology
- Public Health
- Health Sciences
- Biomedical Science
Hospitals:
- LSU Medical Center in Shreveport
- Feist-Weiller Cancer Center in Shreveport
- E.A. Conway in Monroe
- Huey P. Long in Pineville
+29 clinical departments
+Millions of dollars in research funding
+Satellite university of LaTech-Shreveport with between 4-5K students
Oh yeah, and it's the LARGEST EMPLOYER IN SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER!
Last edited by Dawg06; 06-10-2011 at 08:35 AM.
What would be the time frame for a move like this? Say one was applying to LSUHSC for pre-professional school next summer.
This comes up every few years, and nothing ever comes of it. I'm skeptical it will become anything this time, and even more skeptical that it would result in LSUHSC changing its name (even if Tech somehow had some governance). lsus becoming Tech-Shreveport would be very enviable, and I guess at least conceivable. We need our name locked down in an honest-to-goodness city, and since our admin hasn't been willing to do it through marketing and beefing up Tech-Barksdale, hanging our shingle in S'port would be very, very good for us.
As for whether this is good or bad for Tech, I don't know. Being in the lsu system didn't work out so well for UNO; but, we are not UNO.
Ultimately, I don't think we would fare any worse in the lsu system than we have in the ULS. Neither governing board has done us any favors, and with lsu's stranglehold on the legislature and other governing bodies, we I'm not sure we would be any more susceptible to their undermining our ability to grow than we already are.
This would literally put us on a playing field that the institutions that we try to seperate from could not obtain. If this comes to pass it could be the biggest day in Tech history since we gained our university status. What would this do for our pre-vet and bio-med engineering?! Having a med school to play off of those would lift those areas on the main campus as well.
Your source is correct! If I remember correctly the state brought in a outside firm and this is what was recomended.
This would be a very good thing. It also adds more to the story why Dr. Martin spoke at the spring graduation, and why he and DR both made comments to Tech being the flagship University of North Louisiana and LSU the flagship of South Louisiana.
Looking back at the Spring graduates thread GermDawg alluded to what their intensions may be. Looks like it may be coming to fruition.
On the surface, this is so progressive. So much potential. Separate even more from the UL-xes and retain the Tech brand name.
ElEssEwe would remain ElEssA&MEwe and Tech would remain, well, Tech.
But only if these two teams play home and home series of athletics contests.:icon_wink:
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