Hours after the release of the executive budget for fiscal year 2015-2016, LSU President F. King Alexander released a statement looking forward to handing the drop funding for higher education.
The new...
Gov. Bobby Jindal’s executive budget for the 2016 fiscal year calls for a $141.3 million reduction to Louisiana higher education spending. Jindal made the announcement Friday morning to the Joint...
Academic research is a fundamental part of LSU, and the looming state budget cuts will impact the amount and quality of research for current and future generations, said animal science professor and Faculty...
Nearly half the University’s state funding hinges on tomorrow’s preliminary budget announcement from Gov. Bobby Jindal.
Roughly $110 million of the University’s budget comes from the...
Legislators knew the budget shortfall was coming, and it’s happened before.
Higher education faced a 30 percent budget cut in 2008, said LSU President F. King Alexander. The upcoming cut will...
President and CEO of the University’s Alumni Association Cliff Vannoy said there may be a long-term solution to the state deficit—one that won’t harm the University’s budget.
The...
The 16-member LSU Board of Supervisors, charged with managing and overseeing the LSU System, possesses no constitutional power to mitigate the higher education budget cuts proposed by Gov. Bobby Jindal.
But...
Scattered among the racks of T-shirts, shelves of picture frames and walls of wooden paddles at the Balfour House in Baton Rouge are Greek letters. Delta, Sigma, Zeta, Kappa, Alpha and more adorn nearly...
Louisiana’s commercial fishermen soon will have an app to help guide them during the rough waters of hurricane season.
The WAVE app is project underwritten by a $341.330 grant by the New Projects...
Five years into a six-year agreement with Gov. Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana Board of Regents is once again pushing for fiscal autonomy from the state.
Under the GRAD Act, signed in June 2010, higher education...
For hydrology professor Jun Xu, the issues plaguing University Lake — like shallow depth, pollutant accumulation and excess sediment and nutrients — could be water under the gate.
Xu and his...
When University locksmith Eli Jackson first looked for a job in 1964, he was turned away for being too small to move furniture.
Now Jackson is celebrating 50 years working for the University.
Residential...