Source: 2theadvocate.co Posted By: Mary H...5302 days ago
Current budget projections show the state’s higher education budget being axed by nearly 60 percent — about $635 million — by 2012, according to an LSU “roundtable” discussion Monday on colleges’ funding woes.
“It’s significant … and it affects everybody, everywhere in the state of Louisiana whether we know it or not,” said Bob Keaton, LSU System special budget assistant, jokingly referring to himself as the “doom-and-gloom” guy.