LSU Chancellor Mike Martin announced Friday that he will leave his job at Louisiana's flagship university in August to lead the three-campus Colorado State University System, ending a four-year tenure at LSU marked with deep budget cuts and threatened with even more reductions. "While I was not actively looking to leave LSU, when Colorado State approached me with this very challenging opportunity, I felt I had to listen. As it turned out, the opportunity was one that interested and intrigued me, and in the end, I felt it was an excellent chance for me to have a positive effect on the field of higher education," Martin said in an email to LSU students, faculty and staff. Martin, 65, said he'll stay in Louisiana to see the state's flagship university campus into the start of the new budget year that begins July 1. That means he would likely also decide how to cut spending on campus in another round of expected state budget reductions.
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