The Southern University Board of Supervisors denied its chancellor’s request to declare financial exigency Tuesday after the vote was repeatedly postponed in past weeks.
While James Llorens, Southern chancellor, supported declaring the state of financial emergency as the university dodges budget cuts, some Southern faculty members and students stood against the measure.
Several spoke Tuesday in hopes of persuading the board, and the request failed on a 6-6 standoff.
One of the opponents of declaring exigency was Southern University’s Faculty Senate President Sudhir Trivedi, who said the chancellor was not using exigency as a “last