Colleges Brace for Budget Cuts

[MarlinMan3]

How about a campus visit by politician, if more than 33 pct of students are wearing another school's gear, you get shutdown

[SMD7636]

Southeastern would be in trouble. Seriously, graduation rate should determine if a school should get shut down. It’s not a good ROI of taxes if we allow schools with low graduation rates to stay open.

[CajunNation]

Things like this are why our state is a joke to the rest of the nation, and nothing will ever change. We'll sit by and watch the state's entire higher education system go bankrupt before we eliminate anybody's four year school.

Louisiana is a banana republic masquerading as a socialist utopia. I HATE our government. It's stuff like this that makes me ambivalent about the name on our chest. I really wish it said Acadiana.

[Geaux]

UL, LA Tech, and LSU should be the only public FBS athletic programs in the state.

All others should be UL or LSU feeders.

McNeese - UL Lake Charles
NSU LA - UL Central LA
ULM - UL Monroe
SELU - UL Hammond
UNO - UL New Orleans

Consolidate resources and personnel.

[CajunNation]

UL, LA Tech, and LSU should be the only public FBS athletic programs in the state.

All others

It's our own fault. They should have never been invited to the SBC. We may have had to wait a few years to make the SBC football league, but it would have been the smart move.

[KajunKrazy]

All we have to do is increase taxes, folks. It’s that easy!

That is sarcasm? Right.

[CajunVic]

That is sarcasm? Right.

It is the only money tree Louisiana has 🤔

[Duckster]

State of Louisiana doesn't have a revenue problem, it has a spending problem and decades long spending priority problem. There's probably zero chance any State college campus is shuttered. Instead, at least target thinning out the bureaucracy of higher education at the system level and regionally at the campus level.

[ZoomZoom]

In 1929, Louisiana State had a $500,000 budget. Huey blew it up net 5 fold to $3,000,000 in 1930. Throw in building their stadium masquerading as dorms/housing (my dad was one of the early residents) Huey’s self serving kingdom set itself up in perpetuity.

[Turbine]

Louisiana faces a massive ‘fiscal cliff’ in 2025, when $650 million in tax revenue rolls off the books. State leaders have told public colleges and universities to brace for up to $250 million in cuts next year because of the budget shortfall. The Times-Picayune | Baton Rouge Advocate’s Marie Fazio explains what this would mean for universities in the state: Link.

Since we knew this was coming, why do you think they blamed the shortfall on university presidents?