University plans for budget reduction - Catherine Threlkeld, Daily Reveille

Every university in the LSU System is preparing for a 23-percent budget reduction for the 2011-12 fiscal year. Before its meeting Friday, the Board of Supervisors members listened to each chancellor from the system give a detailed plan of how a budget cut this great would affect that particular university. “These projections are all the result of our discussion with the legislature,” LSU System President John Lombardi said. “We’re trying to be very clear to ourselves and our constituents about the consequence of the reduction of state revenues.”