The legislatively mandated Governance Commission for Louisiana’s higher education hosted talks with officials from across the nation in consecutive meetings Wednesday and Thursday to better plan for the future of higher education funding in Louisiana.
“You don’t have the right mix between appropriations and tuition today,” said David Longanecker, president of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.
Longanecker’s presentation focused on national trends regarding state appropriations to educational institutions, the tuition policies of those institutions and financial aid  — all of which should work together rather than separately, he said.
“You want a reasonably priced set of tuitions for the value that students are receiving,” Longanecker said, adding that Louisiana has failed to establish such tuition policies. “You are substantially underpriced for the value your students are