LSU campus instructors have been advised by their deans that “personnel reductions” may be unavoidable in the coming year because of impending budget cuts, Chancellor Michael Martin said in a University Press Release
Martin cited future budget cuts for necessitating the conversations.
“I have asked the deans to have conversations with their instructors about possible personnel reductions within the university in the coming year,” Martin said in the release. “The university has had to make adjustments to its professional and classified staffs in the past, and now we must be prepared to address all areas of our workforce as we brace for future budget reductions. We must have available to us as many options as possible so that we have maximum flexibility in our budget to address the cuts when they come.”
The Baton Rouge campus was forced to layoff 13 employees and eliminate 153 funded but currently vacant positions when it cut over 12 million from its yearly budget earlier in the month.”This obviously is not something we want to do, but we must have flexibility with our budget due to the unknown financial future of higher education in this state,” Martin said.
Martin said he couldn’t comment when contacted by The Daily Reveille.—-Contact Xerxes Wilson at [email protected]