Louisiana.edu Presidential Search Leads to Dr. Ramesh Kolluru

[MarlinMan3]

Tuition can be covered by TOPS which comes out of general fund. Fees do not. To hold costs down after legislature opened TOPS to all not just financially strapped, costs soared. Who could have thought of that? To offset need for more $ by colleges and still hold down $ for TOPS, our ace legislators held tuition as stated earlier for a number of years but allowed colleges to increase fees. Problem solved. Right.

Thanks for the insight. How is athletics able to affors the fees portion? (Have athletes that can, pay fees out of their nil perhaps??) Dont most of the fees go to student organizations, so does it really help the university's finances?

They say time and again our students wont vote for athletic fee, but how did those same students vote for drama club fee or speech and debate fee or judo fee (i remember that one from my days)

[MarlinMan3]

How much would just raising the tops eligibity g.p.a. a quarter point or a half point save and possibly allow it to cover fees

[60swerethebest]

https://louisiana.edu/sga/what-we-do...e-transparency


Interesting spread of fee usage.

[HoustonCajun]

Thanks for the insight. How is athletics able to affors the fees portion? (Have athletes that can, pay fees out of their nil perhaps??) Dont most of the fees go to student organizations, so does it really help the university's finances?

They say time and again our students wont vote for athletic fee, but how did those same students vote for drama club fee or speech and debate fee or judo fee (i remember that one from my days)

Why do students get to vote anyway? The university needs to control tuition and fees.

[MarlinMan3]

Why do students get to vote anyway? The university needs to control tuition and fees.

Fair enough!!

[Cajunrunner]

How much would just raising the tops eligibity g.p.a. a quarter point or a half point save and possibly allow it to cover fees

Dude...there's been bills in the Legislature over the past 10 years trying to LOWER the GPA or ACT score to qualify for TOPS. Thankfully that failed, but you think we can get enough slimy legislators to support raising it? Maybe...I hope.

[Cajunrunner]

All legislators for the the past 20 years have stood quietly by and either had a hand in gutting higher education or at the very least stood by and watched it happen. This is why we have budget shortfalls and the student loan problems we see.

What or whose taxes you want to raise to make up for the shortfall. OR, what programs/NGO spending you willing to cut?

There's a reason why the EWE-led constitutional convention made it where the easiest programs to cut from the budget were education and healthcare...because he knew it would cause the current delima and politicians could wring their hands and cry that "there's nothing we can do".

[WestUCajun]

The semifinalists
Hitesh Rai Kathuria
Ramesh Kolluru
Richard Ludwick

https://www.katc.com/news/ul-lafayet...ree-candidates

[60swerethebest]

By CV, looks like they are the top three

[CajunRed]

What or whose taxes you want to raise to make up for the shortfall. OR, what programs/NGO spending you willing to cut?

There's a reason why the EWE-led constitutional convention made it where the easiest programs to cut from the budget were education and healthcare...because he knew it would cause the current delima and politicians could wring their hands and cry that "there's nothing we can do".

ALL NGO spending should be cut!