Cuts Add Strain to SU, Baton Rouge - Norman J. Dotson, Jr. -- Black College Wire

An estimated $4.6 million cut puts an even larger dent in the already strained Southern University budget. According to Chancellor Kofi Lomotey, SUBR is in an even worse situation than last year and next year will be even worse. At the start of this year there were already layoffs of at least 27 members of staff and administration. Only one instructor was laid off. “We are still in the process of trying to balance the budget,” said Lomotey. “If what we anticipate occurs next year, which is an $11 million cut, that represents about 50 percent of our non-faculty payroll which would put us in an even worse situation than this year.”