MELINDA DESLATTE, Associated PressFaculty & StaffLSU Employees To Get First Pay Raises in Over Four YearsBATON ROUGE La.—LSU faculty and staff will see pay raises of up to 4 percent, under the first salary increase for campuses in more than four years, LSU System President F. King Alexander said Friday. Exactly who will get raises, what type of salary increase people will receive and how much they will cost remains […]July 28, 2013Leadership & PolicyLouisiana Regents Question Southern University Financial EmergencyMembers of the state’s top higher education board questioned whether Southern University needed to declare a financial emergency for its main campus and complained that school leaders hadn’t consulted them about the plans.August 25, 2011HomeLouisiana Legislators Introduce Bill to Merge SUNO and UNO CampusesLawmakers proposing the consolidation of the historically Black Southern University at New Orleans with the largely White campus of the University of New Orleans are recommending a merger more sweeping than the idea backed by state higher education leaders.April 17, 2011Leadership & PolicyAnalysis: Louisiana Higher Education Commissioner’s Job a Tough SellThe next commissioner, whom Louisiana Regents hope to have in place by January, will step into the position as the state’s public colleges brace for the loss of at least $290 million in federal stimulus money.August 30, 2010Leadership & PolicyCollege Board Merger Legislation Scrapped in Louisiana HouseHouse Speaker Jim Tucker scrapped his push to merge the governing boards for four-year public colleges Wednesday after facing significant opposition from lawmakers and higher education leaders.May 26, 2010HomeLouisiana Bill Would Allow Higher Education Tuition IncreasesGov. Bobby Jindal’s push for state lawmakers to give up their authority over public college tuition increases, if the schools improve their performance, cleared its first legislative hurdle Thursday.May 6, 2010StudentsLa. College Commission Suggests RestructuringThe final list of recommendations from a higher education restructuring panel would shift the way dollars are divvied up among Louisiana’s public college campuses and reshuffle governance of the schools.February 7, 2010Previous PagePage 2 of 2
