Let's takeover Centenary , their campus looks like ours alreadyOriginally Posted by Reckless Abandon
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Let's takeover Centenary , their campus looks like ours already
Oh, I quite agree. We're just going to have to do it some other way after LSUS fails.
Actually. Why don't we start offering engineering classes there? Eventually buy it, then give the legislature the finger.
Centenary has an engineering deal with several out-of-state schools:
- Texas A&M
- Case Western
- Columbia
- USC
- Wash. U. St. Louis
I think we are "beneath" them.
http://www.centenary.edu/engineering
My understanding has been that our Barksdale offerings have been limited due to noncompetition rules. If lsus gets shuttered, perhaps we can dramatically grow Tech Barksdale.
LETTER SENT TODAY BY GREATER SHREVEPORT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO EDITORIAL PAGE:
After passage in the House Education Committee by a 14-4 vote, the bill to authorize the merger of LaTech and LSUS was brought before the Louisiana House of Representatives for debate on Tuesday. This proposal followed months of study and debate in our community and by state higher education boards over the future of higher education in our region. The immediate gain for us is that policymakers across the state have taken a serious look at the higher education needs of the third largest metro area in our state.
While about sixty of the 105 House members favored the legislation to merge La Tech and LSUS, the threshold for passage of the bill is 70 votes or two-thirds of the legislature. A 2/3 vote has always been a high hurdle to overcome, but despite this obstacle, we pursued a debate on the issue because our business community believes a strong higher education enterprise is important to the future of the region and the status quo is not working.
Passing legislation requires education of the legislature. We had the chance to explore this complex change in the House Education Committee with nearly three hours of testimony, debate, and discussion. However, a legislative session packed with education reform, pension reform, and pending major budget cuts, provides little time to answer everyone’s questions in the House and Senate. But we will not give up on our pursuit for stronger and better educational opportunities in our region.
Most legislation that deals with bold change does not pass the first time around in the legislature and so we have no intention of giving up on the possibility of a better and stronger regional university. As a community, we must remain engaged in these discussions – especially as it relates to higher education and healthcare. We will continue to answer the questions of our legislators and continue to advocate for what will establish the most effective higher education enterprise in northwest Louisiana. It is too important to our community to ignore.
Woody Schick T Brian Bond
Chairman Past Chairman
Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce
Tech's team doctor, Dr. Bundrick, needs to prove to some of the idiot doctors around whom he works that LSUS is indeed a separate university from LSUBR. Would one of you guru's help me locate the recent post in one of these merger threads that showed the academic ranking of Louisiana universities? Also, any other post that proves the separate identity of the two would be appreciated. THANKS!
BATON ROUGE – The Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System will hold a special meeting in Baton Rouge on Monday, May 21, 2012 to discuss the repercussions of pending legislation that would dramatically reduce funding for colleges and universities.
WHAT: UL System Board of Supervisors Special Meeting
WHEN: 2 p.m., Monday, May 21, 2012
WHERE: Room 1-100, Claiborne Building, 1201 N. Third Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802
If the budget bill (HB1) currently moving through the Louisiana Legislature is not amended the University of Louisiana System’s nine universities are slated to lose $105.7 million in state appropriations. This will bring the UL System’s total state funding reductions since Fiscal Year 2008/09 (including recently acquired UNO) to $293 million (54 percent). As the current budget proposal stands, total reductions in state general fund support for all of higher education since FY 2008/09 would reach $585 million.
“Over the last couple of days you have heard from our university presidents calling these proposed cuts ‘catastrophic’ and ‘devastating.’ They are not exaggerating. If nothing is done, we are facing a very real possibility of several campuses declaring financial exigency, which is a measure of last resort,” said UL System President Randy Moffett.
“Our campuses have already cut non-essential services. With reductions of this magnitude, our board and campus leaders need to have some frank discussions about next steps,” said UL System Board Chair Wayne Parker.
Over 70 percent of the State of Louisiana’s operating budget is protected through constitutional or statutory dedications, federal mandates, and unavoidable obligations. Higher education does not enjoy any constitutional protection from cuts. Consequently, when the state faces significant shortfalls, higher education, along with healthcare, takes the brunt of the reductions.
“Higher education has been notified that of the $268 million shortfall in the budget for next year, $134 million will be taken from our allocations. This is in addition to the $71 that higher education was already notified would be removed in HB1,” said Moffett.
Over the past four years, reductions to higher education have been mitigated in part by one-time funding and raising tuition and fees. Even with modest increases in tuition over the last few years, it has not been enough to close the gap in funding. Since FY 2008/09, the UL System’s net total funding reduction would be $162.6 million (19 percent) given the current budget scenario.
To date, UL System campuses have taken several steps to address declining resources such as furloughing employees, incentivizing retirement, restructuring administrative offices, eliminating over 200 academic programs, restructuring over 300 academic programs, and eliminating over 1,300 budgeted positions.
As soon as it is finalized, an agenda for Monday’s meeting will be posted at www.ulsystem.edu/BoardMeetings.
-ULS-
ABOUT THE UL SYSTEM: The University of Louisiana System is the largest higher education system in Louisiana enrolling about 94,000 students at Grambling State University, Louisiana Tech University, McNeese State University, Nicholls State University, Northwestern State University, Southeastern Louisiana University, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the University of Louisiana at Monroe, and the University of New Orleans.
I've been looking for the original org chart this was taken from...This is from the LSU Organizational Chart:
I think we are "beneath" them.
In the minds of Centenary Grads - the answer is YES! Please let me know if I am correct in this - There are more "institutions of higher learning" in the State of Louisiana per capita than any other state in the Union. If this statement is true, then at some point there will be no choice but to consolidate. However, a big faction of legislators do not want it to change because as long as everyone but LSU is fighting each other for the crumbs, they are not focusing their efforts at being a threat to "THE EVIL EMPIRE."
I would also go look at U.S. News rankings:
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandre...ch.result/LA+y
National Universities
LSU-BR
Tech
Tulane
UNO
ULL
Regional Universities:
Grambling
Nicholls
LSU-S
McNeese
ULM
Northwestern
Southeastern
Southern
I heard LSUS medical school might be closing?
The only concern LSU-BR has for NW LA is the athletes and Alums $$$$.
Not a chance.
You got it!
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