This legislative session state lawmakers frantically searched for solutions to a $1.6 billion budget shortfall that threatened an 82 percent cut to Louisiana’s state universities and colleges. Through...
With less than half an hour remaining until deadline, Louisiana legislators passed the $24 billion state budget Thursday after many passionate debates and difficult compromises were made within and between...
In Louisiana, the film industry, oil companies and giant corporations receive billions of dollars in tax breaks and credits, while legislators scramble to cut the cost of the state’s popular merit-based...
When the spring semester began in January, two things loomed over the University — budget cuts and Gov. Bobby Jindal’s prayer rally.
Jindal’s rally, “The Response,” on January...
University alumni, gubernatorial candidates and concerned students and faculty found common ground on the steps of the State Capitol on Thursday.
Together, they marched to the Capitol to protest potential...
LSU students, faculty and community members took to the state capitol Thursday to protest potential budget cuts to higher education at the "Make the Change March the Capitol" rally.
The rally aims...
More than 1,700 University students, faculty and community members are set to storm the state’s 34-story seat of government at 1 p.m. today, according to the Make the Change March the Capitol Facebook...
Students and faculty of different races united in the Quad on Wednesday to express their solidarity with the Baltimore, Maryland, protesters in a special installment of Black Out Wednesdays.The demonstration...
After the Senate Committee on Education’s deliberations last week, several major higher education bills were approved and will be considered by the entire Senate later in the session.
Senate Bill...
As part of the College of Engineering’s Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series, Sen. Bill Cassidy stood before a presentation room packed with students and faculty Friday to speak about bioengineering...
Gov. Bobby Jindal wrote an op-ed article for The New York Times which ran on Thursday. In the article, Jindal outlines his views on gay marriage.
Jindal also spoke on his progress with the state of Louisiana...
LSU President F. King Alexander announced Wednesday that University administrators are working on a financial exigency plans because no significant steps have been made to halt the $608 million cut to...
