Academic campuses of Louisiana State University, including the flagship in Baton Rouge and the University of New Orleans, will see their state support shrink by 3.7 percent under a plan the system’s Board of Supervisors approved this weekend for absorbing a midyear budget cut of $21-million, The Times-Picayune reported. Nonacademic entities, including the system office and several hospitals, will be cut by more than 15 percent. The system, which has eliminated programs in earlier rounds of budget cuts, had sought to hold the campus reductions to 1.6 percent, but cut deeper in order to restore some funds to research facilities not supported by tuition, a move that student leaders protested. The system’s president, John V. Lombardi, described the plan approved Saturday as “the best of a bad set of alternatives.”
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As long as money for the football team is not cut, and as long as Mike the Tiger continues to be fed, who cares? LSU Baton Rouge is not exactly a world-class university. Most of its students couldn’t get in elsewhere, and most of its faculty–with some handsome exceptions like those in geology and animal husbandry–would be lucky to be working for Wal Mart if there were no LSU.
Ben T. (one-time faculty member in social science)
@div411 Thanks for disparaging a whole range of alums from LSU who received a very good public university education. I appreciate you lumping everyone together into a single stereotype. You only display your lack of civility and insight.
Methinks someone didn’t get tenure and is bitter…
LSU has numerous nationally prominent professors who are leaders in their field. Here’s three examples:
-An internationally prominent physicist who has written over 300 papers on materials physics.
-One of the nation’s leading genome biologists who is doing exciting work in cancer research.
-Two of America’s leading historians, one who has won numerous prizes for his work on the military history of the Revolution and Civil War; the other is the leading scholar of 19th century southern history and this year’s president of the Southern Historical Association. (A third historian you may know, Stephen Ambrose, taught at the University of New Orleans, a member of the LSU System.)
Additionally, LSU scholars Robert Penn Warren and T. Harry Williams both won the Pulitzer Prize for their work.
Over 200,000 alumni bear witness to what a great institution LSU is.