BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A commission charged with finding ways to overhaul Louisiana’s public college systems and reducing its costs is back in Baton Rouge for a two-day meeting.
The commission is called the Postsecondary Education Review Commission. It is charged with finding efficiencies and deciding how to restructure the four public college systems amid years of projected budget shortfalls and shrinking state funding for higher education.
This week’s meeting, which began Monday morning, will give the panel a crash course in how Louisiana’s higher education system is constructed and what the state’s work force needs are.
Any commission recommendations would have to be enacted by the Board of Regents, which oversees public colleges in Louisiana, and the state Legislature before they could take effect. The panel’s report is due by Feb. 12.
 
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