University Executive Budget Cuts

[Ragin9221]

Concerns over the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s budget took center stage during a town hall meeting Thursday at Wharton Hall, where university leaders spoke with faculty, staff and students about ongoing financial challenges and efforts toward recovery

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Christina Mondragon

This is all i need to know.

Go to the 1:59.00 minute mark!’

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jDWBBk...FnaW4gcmV2aWV3

[Cajunrunner]

Finding and determining UL’s or any Louisiana university budget, is not for the faint of heart.

I’ve been told from a legit sauce that UL actually makes it harder than other universities in the state. Apparently you have to go to Dupre Library and make copies of it if you want to view it later at home or in your theoretical news room.

Other schools supposedly don’t make it that difficult, or should we say inconvenient.

Again…allegedly.

[Duckster]

There's a saying sometimes its easier to make an extra $10,000 by doing more, than tghe time its takes saving up $10,000. While UL obviously needs to restructure/tighten up its budget belt, it needs to have its collective hair on fire generating more revenues by recruiting more undergraduates to campus and online. I don't know how much more an additional 500 enrollees brings in Fall 2026 but that's fastest way to climb out of this funk. What is the growth strategy? Grow!

[RedTails]

I don't know how much more an additional 500 enrollees brings in Fall 2026 but that's fastest way to climb out of this funk. What is the growth strategy? Grow!

I hope Dr. Kolluru's revenue generation plan is made public. I keep saying it, but unless public higher ed reinvents itself...I foresee a national decline in enrollment to traditional public 4-year universities. With "AI", we're already seeing high unemployment numbers for new grads. Companies are hiring less entry level and junior positions.

That means the University (and even UL System) need to rethink what makes college attractive and worthwhile to high school students. Kids aren't going to be pushed to college like we were in the past if job opportunities aren't there.

[CajunNation]

I hope Dr. Kolluru's revenue generation plan is made public. I keep saying it, but unless public higher ed reinvents itself...I foresee a national decline in enrollment to traditional public 4-year universities. With "AI", we're already seeing high unemployment numbers for new grads. Companies are hiring less entry level and junior positions.

That means the University (and even UL System) need to rethink what makes college attractive and worthwhile to high school students. Kids aren't going to be pushed to college like we were in the past if job opportunities aren't there.

So, so true. Higher Ed is rapidly changing from the model that has existed for 100 years.

These are the trends:

- Trades. This is where more and more students are heading. No college debt. Marketable skills. Plentiful jobs.

- No college required. On the other end of the Academic spectrum, many corporations are running trial programs of hiring kids straight out of high school in many areas such as computer science/coding.

- Debt slaves. College gradutes are debt slaves. The cost of higher education is completely untethered to the specific major. Only a few majors can demand such high tuition. People are waking up to this every day.

[MarlinMan3]

"Everyone needs to major in a more marketable skill.to be ready for the job force"...
"How about athletes"...
",NM, not them, keep the woke mickey mouse majors just for them"

[ZoomZoom]

This is all i need to know.

Go to the 1:59.00 minute mark!’

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jDWBBk...FnaW4gcmV2aWV3

When all your programs, ahtletic and academic, keep fishing in the same hole, you're set up for apathy to reign.

It's like being a kid with their first 8 pack of Crayolas. Until you GROW UP and discover the 64 pack, you keep coloring inside the lines with the same boring approach and result.

[HoustonCajun]

I hope Dr. Kolluru's revenue generation plan is made public. I keep saying it, but unless public higher ed reinvents itself...I foresee a national decline in enrollment to traditional public 4-year universities. With "AI", we're already seeing high unemployment numbers for new grads. Companies are hiring less entry level and junior positions.

That means the University (and even UL System) need to rethink what makes college attractive and worthwhile to high school students. Kids aren't going to be pushed to college like we were in the past if job opportunities aren't there.

All you need to do is be a ballerina and dream.

[Cajunrunner]

All you need to do is be a ballerina and dream.

We're the school to attend if you want to major in ballerinaing!

[MarlinMan3]

We're the school to attend if you want to major in ballerinaing!

LSU offers ballet courses, primarily through their Theatre/Dance program, focusing on foundational skills in Beginning Ballet (e.g., THEA 1131) and Intermediate Ballet (e.g., THEA 1231), part of a Dance Minor or Theatre Minor, covering barre work, center practice, pliés, battements, and more, building technique for dancers of various levels, even if not a full Dance major.