LSU cuts in operating budget of $92. million since 2009 - Town Talk

Louisiana State Univeristy has cut $8.1 million from its operating budget in response to mid-year budget cuts, the university said Wednesday. The reductions will affect academic units ($2.5 million dollars, or an average of 1.5 percent of each unit's budget); and non-academic units ($3.2 million, an average of 3.8 percent of their budgets). The university said it has "experienced a reduction in general state appropriations from $245 million to $153 million since January of 2009, a drop of $92 million in three years."