Richard Lipsey at it again - Straight up calling for F. King's head

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Monday’s audit report questioning LSU management’s ham-handed efforts to sell software developed by the university prompted renewed demands Tuesday for the wholesale removal of the flagship’s leadership by a former Board of Regents chairman.

Baton Rouge businessman Richard Lipsey, a prominent donor to political causes who in December stepped down from the higher education's top policy-making body, said LSU President F. King Alexander and Dan Layzell, the university system’s chief financial officer, must go.

“Just the facts presented in the audit are certainly disturbing enough to immediately bring an end to the tenure of King Alexander and Dan Layzell at LSU,” Lipsey is posting on his Put Louisiana First website. His posting will include a “sound off” link to collect the opinions of others. Lipsey has been calling for a sweeping change in leadership since LSU unilaterally changed its admissions policies last year.

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Legislative Auditor Daryl Purpera’s investigation, released Monday, found that LSU management jettisoned its usual practices and chose instead to try to market a potentially lucrative computer program through a private nonprofit controlled by members of the Board of Supervisors.

Commonly called LaHIT and formed in September 2014, the Louisiana Health Information Technology Foundation entered into contracts that didn’t maximize royalties for the university and ultimately were cancelled in March 2017. The deal cost taxpayers at least $410,000 in legal fees while at the same time creating a web of conflicts of interest along with possible violations of the ethics laws and the state Constitution, according to the audit.

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