Local higher education leaders are once again fretting Louisiana’s legislative session, as another massive reduction in state funding to higher education could mean reductions in programs and services at both Nicholls State University and Fletcher Technical Community College. Nicholls President Stephen Hulbert declined to elaborate on the “specific or theoretical” effects stemming from what could become the latest reduction in a recurring string of diminutions. The university estimated it could lose up to $7.7 million if the state’s budget isn’t altered. “We don’t have answers,” Hulbert said. “Any (cuts) that are accumulated beyond this point this year are going to have a dramatic impact.”
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