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A weekly newsletter on Louisiana higher education policy, people and problems
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Oops! UL System releases records (opens the original)
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Louisiana Tech University will spend nearly $2 million in public money to pay its student-athletes this year, while the University of Louisiana at Lafayette will devote $1.5 million to its sports teams.Team-level payout details for four UL System sports programs, money for which comes from revenue generated on each campus, were accidentally included in documents posted online for last month’s University of Louisiana Board of Supervisors meeting.Earlier this year, Louisiana lawmakers overwhelming
Scientists surveilled (opens the original)
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Faculty at Louisiana universities from certain countries will soon have to seek state permission to do their research under a new, far-reaching law that dramatically increases surveillance of researchers.Act 505 by Sen. Adam Bass, R-Shreveport, created the Higher Education Research Security Council, which met for the first time this week.Bass sold the legislation as an extra layer of security to prevent Chinese spies from stealing research conducted at Louisiana universities. But the law goes mu
Faculty fear (opens the original)
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Editor’s note: It’s come to my attention I have not been getting notifications for messages sent on Substack. If you’d like to contact me (and please do!) I’m easily reachable on Signal at piperhutch.28, on Twitter, Instagram and TikTok bypiperhutch, or by email at phutchinson@lailluminator.com. If you need my cell, reach out on one of those platforms and I’m happy to share it. A survey of higher education faculty in the South found professors are concerned about the political environment around
Funding formula overhaul (opens the original)
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A legislative task force is staring at a growing problem with higher education in Louisiana: How to fund a system with more demands than ever before while state and federal dollars are on the decline.Louisiana uses a outcomes-based formula to fund its colleges and universities. The bulk of the money provided, 70%, is considered base funding to cover their operational expenses. The remaining 30% rewards schools for reaching benchmarks, such as student retention, and meeting state priorities like
Sports problem (opens the original)
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Nearly every athletic department at Louisiana’s public universities is bleeding money, impacting the fiscal health of the rest of the school. The situation has athletics administrators eyeing ways to generate more sales tax revenue on and near campus to stabilize their programs.LSU was the only athletic department in Louisiana to make a profit — and even that was a narrow margin — in the 2024-25 academic year, the most recent year from which data was available. The state’s 10 other public Divisi
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