Higher education leaders Monday predicted $225 million in proposed budget cuts would lead to dramatic consequences with one administrator saying the effects would take a generation to overcome. At LSU, Chancellor Michael Martin said the university would have to declare a financial emergency and put whole colleges on the chopping block should the Legislature stick with the current incarnation of House Bill 1, the $25 billion state spending plan for the fiscal year starting in July.
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