re: Louisiana's Public Higher Education Problem Solved

His suggestion is that we shouldn't close down unnecessary universities so a few kid don't have to make the hard sacrifices.

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This mentality right here is why Louisiana has so many of these state universities relative to its population.

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A system that has supported many of the current decision makes that want to pull it apart. So here is what we are as a nation: I got my degree so much cheaper because we supported this system. I have advanced my and family's status in life because I got a cheaper state college degree. Now that I have mine, we should want to pull that support making our children's path so much harder because we do not want to pay a bit more in taxes or do not have the balls to call a session that eliminates protections for other parts of the state budget?

A large percentage of people that want all these schools shut down benefited from the system and are now to greedy to give back to the next generation.

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A large percentage of people that want all these schools shut down benefited from the system and are now to greedy to give back to the next generation.

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Oh bullshite. Either you make the grades and get in on scholarship or work the system to get grants/loans/tops, etc.
We are the most fcked up state in the union with having all of these colleges and letting so many average students come have fun for a few years.

And if you can't make any of that work, again, the military or national guard is a great way to learn skills and get your college paid for.

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Name them.

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Iowa for one.

For political reasons your proposal will never happen.

A more realistic approach would be to turn each of the regional colleges into specialty schools. For example, SLU could specialize in education degrees and general studies. If you want to major in something else, you need to go elsewhere.

ULL, ULM, McNeese, La. Tech., Nichols, Grambling, Southern and UNO would all have a primary degree designation along with a general studies major. The other disciplines would not be offered resulting in major cost savings but still allowing the legislators to maintain they "saved" their local school.

Only LSU, as the Flagship University, would bestow a full menu of degrees.

SUNO would be merged into UNO.

LSUE, LSUS and LSUA would all be drastically downsized into 2 year schools becoming feeder schools into LSU Baton Rouge.

This is dumb, isn't SELU the 2nd highest enrolled university in the state?

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Poncho

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Your newly elected democrat Governor, John Bel Edwards, does not support any of the proposals aimed at closing down schools in this state. If anything, he wants to make them a more bigger racket with more useless positions and more funding. He campaigned on that during the election season.

HBCU's? GTFO. That will never happen. JBE will never do anything to rock the boat with the biggest constituency that is solid for him and will need for reelection.

And the hilarious thing is, you voted for him along with a few other posters in this thread knowing full well that was reality.

Vitter would likely have gone ape shite in closing them and take one for the team. And I voted for that.

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Your newly elected democrat Governor, John Bel Edwards, does not support any of the proposals aimed at closing down schools in this state. If anything, he wants to make them a more bigger racket with more useless positions and more funding

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Yep. Such a shame.

Can any person who has half a brain look at the situation and SUNO and tell us why it shouldn't be merged with UNO or closed?

I got my degree after 2006.

The system still sucks.