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re: Here is an easy $62.5 million to address the states shortfall.
Posted on 3/3/16 at 12:55 pm to s-port tiger
Posted on 3/3/16 at 12:55 pm to s-port tiger
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It is time to close Nichols, McNeese, LSU-S, LSU-E, LSU-A, UNO, SUNO, Southern Shreveport, Southern Law, and Grambling.
So your brilliant idea to fix the ailing higher ed system is to dismantle it?
Louisiana ranks near the bottom of the list in nearly every measurable educational statistic (including post-secondary attainment). In spite of what you see as budget mismanagement, Louisiana is at or near the bottom in higher ed expenditures. Also, if memory serves, Louisiana institutions rank in the top 15 in higher ed budget efficiency nationally.
So... the fat is already trimmed. If you want to cut, it needs to come from elsewhere.
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LSU football is an economic engine worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the state
Ignoring the hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs that would be eliminated by closing all of the institutions you mentioned (not to mention the negative impact of the state's percentage of degreed employees plummeting/students leaving the state for schools in nearby Texas, Arkansas or Mississippi rather than staying home)?
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Thats the real problem here. Open up the books and cut the ridiculous fat that the state spends on state employees. Trim the state workforce by 50% and make people actually work for a living. Eliminate the many depts that have no value and consolidate like actual businesses do.
No argument here. But the point of all this football chain rattling is to leverage budgetary amendments in a "magical special session."
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Posted on 3/3/16 at 2:06 pm to Guava Jelly
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So your brilliant idea to fix the ailing higher ed system is to dismantle it?
Louisiana ranks near the bottom of the list in nearly every measurable educational statistic (including post-secondary attainment). In spite of what you see as budget mismanagement, Louisiana is at or near the bottom in higher ed expenditures. Also, if memory serves, Louisiana institutions rank in the top 15 in higher ed budget efficiency nationally.
Louisiana is 25th in population but has the 8th most State Universities in the country. It seems like we would be much better served by doing away with some of the satellite campuses and consolidate some of them.
LSU-S, Southern-S, Northwestern state consolidate
ULL, LSU-A, LSU-E consolidate
ULM, LA Tech consolidate
UNO, SUNO consolidate
I don't really know what to do with the HBC main campuses but it's ridiculous that we have 3 Universities in the Shreveport area and 3 in the Lafayette/Alex area. The other schools: Nichols, Mcneese, and Southeastern probably serve large enough population bases to justify keeping them around. It's not about doing away with the seats from the consolidated schools, but the amount of money spent paying for all these administrations and all these different facilities could be better spent on a smaller number of schools. I'm sure there are issues with my "proposal", but if the state can't fund the number of campuses it has then the simple solution is to lower the number of campuses.
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