Southern University aims to protect key programs from budget cuts - Ed Anderson, The Times-Picayune

The chancellor of Southern University's main campus in Baton Rouge said Monday that he will recommend $4.6 million in budget cuts to the Southern University Board of Supervisors that could result in another 50 layoffs and the merging or termination of some courses and majors at the school. "Southern University must create a niche" and those three programs are the foundation of that area of specialization, he said. He said he hopes they can escape with "minimum cuts."