BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - LSU System President John Lombardi is
asking campus officials to begin drafting plans now for deep budget
cuts he expects will fall on higher education in 2011.
In a letter to chancellors Thursday, Lombardi says the LSU
governing board has asked for preliminary proposals at its July 16
board meeting for coping with the cuts. He warned in his letter
that "the list of actions will be long and the collateral damage
significant."
State lawmakers have told higher education leaders that public
colleges face a likely $300 million cut to state funding in the
2011-12 budget year, when the state loses federal stimulus money.
Lombardi says campuses will need to prepare now for the
reductions because many layoffs and program changes will take a
year to implement, because of faculty protections and other
administrative hurdles.


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