UNO to UL system

[Turbine]

UL used to have it's own hospital (Medical Center) tied to promotion of the Nursing School.

Look what happened.


igeaux.mobi

[Louisiana's Ragin T]

Well we need to start writing our local senators to get this changed. Terrible!! It is all about politics. Didn't at one time UL want a specialized tax region around Our Lady of Lourdes Complex to support the purchase?

[SlappyCajun]

http://www.2theadvocate.com/mobile?c...2Fpoliticsblog

And Tech and LSU are in bed together. Tech will end up in the LSU system and get there school. Will push their enrollment on par with ours.


igeaux.mobi

[CajunRed]

We don't have enough senators to vote with us to make it happen...IMO.

igeaux.mobi

[SlappyCajun]

I have a feeling we are about to get screwed royally. Tech will get a med school, move to the LSU system and we will be left battling it out with the other "regional" universities.

It makes sense for Tech and is probably efficient, bit this would most likely give them a strangle hold on the #2 position in the state.

igeaux.mobi

[Louisiana's Ragin T]

_ I have a feeling we are about to get screwed royally. Tech will get a med school, move to the LSU system and we will be left battling it out with the other "regional" universities.

It makes sense for Tech and is probably efficient, bit this would most likely give them a strangle hold on the #2 position in the state.

igeaux.mobi _

If this happens UL will NEVER get a med-school or law-school. Once Tech has that, there is no turning back. Great. We will be left with ULM, NSU, SLU, and any other regional university in the state. UL might as well just have undergraduate programs.

[CajunRed]

_ I have a feeling we are about to get screwed royally. Tech will get a med school, move to the LSU system and we will be left battling it out with the other "regional" universities.

It makes sense for Tech and is probably efficient, bit this would most likely give them a strangle hold on the #2 position in the state.

igeaux.mobi _

yep

[SlappyCajun]

Possibly as a compromise we would be named the flagship of the UL system in that case.

[CajunNation]

If this happens UL will NEVER get a med-school or law-school. Once Tech has that, there is no turning back. Great. We will be left with ULM, NSU, SLU, and any other regional university in the state. UL might as well just have undergraduate programs.

[HoustonCajun]

_ Possibly as a compromise we would be named the flagship of the UL system in that case. _

This, of course, is just Board fodder, but for those interested, here are a few quotes off of the LA Tech Board:

"This would be great for Tech. It will place Tech alongside LSU and make the two schools peer institutions in the state. Their will be 2 flagship reserch instituions, one in the south and one in the north. Getting Shreveport helps Tech in athletics, more television sets, larger enrollment and more support from the Shreveport community all vital for CUSA. We all need to get behind this in a big way."

"Moving to the LSU System would truly separate Tech from UL and ULM. The fear I have is if massive budget cuts have to occur in the future, would Tech take the lion's share of cuts as opposed to LSU?

Tech has expanded into the Shreveport-Bossier City market in recent years with the Technology Transfer Center, executive MBA classes, and engineering curriculum agreements with BPCC. Adding the LSU Hospital, Medical School, and LSU-Shreveport under the Tech umbrella would be huge."

"To have a Louisiana Tech Health Sciences Center with these graduate programs would be HUGE:
- Medicine
- Physicians Assistant
- Physical Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech-Language Pathology
- Communications Disorders
- Cardiopulmonary Science
- Clinical Laboratory Science
- Biochemistry and Molecular Science
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Cellular Biology and Anatomy
- Microbiology and Immunology
- Molecular and Cellular Physiology
- Pharmacology, Toxicology, and Neuroscience
- Medical Technology
- Public Health
- Health Sciences
- Biomedical Science

Hospitals:
- LSU Medical Center in Shreveport
- Feist-Weiller Cancer Center in Shreveport
- E.A. Conway in Monroe
- Huey P. Long in Pineville

+29 clinical departments
+Millions of dollars in research funding
+Satellite university of LaTech-Shreveport with between 4-5K students

Oh yeah, and it's the LARGEST EMPLOYER IN SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER!"

"This would be a very good thing. It also adds more to the story why Dr. Martin spoke at the spring graduation, and why he and DR both made comments to Tech being the flagship University of North Louisiana and LSU the flagship of South Louisiana."

"I have heard someone in higher education in Baton Rouge say Tech is the best kept secret in the state."

"I don't trust them either.
LSU would disassemble Tech piece by piece every time budget cuts came around.
Right now, we're the jewel of the UL system. We've survived the budget cuts better than the others.
Don't be so quick to get into bed with the enemy."

"If it is on the up and up, then this would be great for TECH. Possibilities to move us to a Tier I Institution and get rid/separate us of the warts in Monroe and Lafayette. Moreover, we will have to keep the TECH name or all bets are off…no negotiating on this one!"

"LSU System
LSU
LSU-Alexandria
LSU-Eunice
LSU Ag Center
LSUHSC-New Orleans
Paul M. Hebert Law Center
Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Louisiana Tech
LaTech-Shreveport
LaTechHSC-Shreveport

UL System
UL-New Orleans
UL-Lafayette
UL-Monroe
Southeastern La.
Northwestern St.
McNeese St.
Nicholls St.
Grambling St.

SU System
Southern
SU-New Orleans
SU-Shreveport
SU Law Center"

"We would become the 2nd largest institution in Louisiana.

Enrollment (Fall 2010)
11,804 - Louisiana Tech
694 - Tech Barksdale
4,504 - LaTech-Shreveport
839 - LaTechHSC
17,841 - TOTAL

38,209 - LSU+LSUA+LSUE+Law+HSCNO
17,841 - LaTech+LSUS+HSCS+Barksdale
16,763 - ULL
15,351 - SLU
13,912 - Southern+SUNO+SUSLA+Law
11,276 - ULNO
9,244 - NWST
8,941 - McNeese
8,858 - ULM
7,093 - Nicholls
4,994 - Grambling
907 - Centenary"

"I just don't want to see us jump into this and suddenly become LSU's whipping boy. I have a feeling we would be more like the red-headed step child instead of the "flagship of North Louisiana."

"This is me being an optimist, but I see this having the opposite effect. If we join the lsu system, then we would be undoubtedly the flagship of the north. The UL system would have nothing left. Tech would have N. LA, and lsubr would have the south. Sounds like a good idea to me."