re: Note to Out of State Alums

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All of this is going to be inconsequential ... by the time all of the cuts are made and all of the quality professors leave LSU because of substandard funding, who's going to WANT to send their kids to LSU from other states? Both of my kids wanted to go to LSU, but it wasn't for the academics.

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With all due respect, where are they going to go?

From the Chronicle of Higher Education:

"At least 43 states have implemented cuts to public colleges and universities...."


People keep acting like this is a Louisiana and Bobby Jindal issue. Florida State laid off 200 employees including tenured faculty. South Carolina had forced furloughs and retirements of faculty members. This is a nationwide issue and not just in Louisiana. Are they going to go to the private sector? Where are there jobs there? It's not like in the 80s where Louisiana's economy bottomed out and other states had the money to hire faculty away from LSU. It's a nationwide problem.