Those that can afford to do so, of course. Out of state tuition at a public university would be outside the ability of most of our high school grads to pay, barring serious financial aid from the out of state institution. We truly have a captive audience here. I have never known a Louisiana kid attending university elsewhere who did not come from a moneyed family.
So basically we would lose the best of the best to out of state scholarships. I know UT in Austin and A & M used to take it as a point of pride how many kids they lured from out of state with scholarship offers.
Louisiana higher education has always suffered from political interference going back to Huey Long. Looks like economic development is just lip service. True sustainable economic development more often than not has strong research universities at its core: Stanford and Berkeley in Silicon Valley, MIT and Harvard in computers and now biotech, Columbia, University of Chicago, and I could go on. LSU could be as well if the Governor and legislature would leave it alone.
Education takes the 3rd row seat to everything else in higher education, apparently. As this continues, degrees from our institutions of higher learning will become worthless. It makes plain common sense that the head of a college or university should have an education-related doctoral degree. The fact that is no longer the case should tell us all where higher education ranks in our priorities for education as a whole.
The fact that Landry also wants to build more prisons at the expense of higher education (according to recent Pro Public report) gurantees that those students who can will leave, and those who can't will have to educate themselves.
Unfortunately this is not a surprise because these are the folks that has brought book burning, uh, banning to our public libraries and now want to erect the 10 Commandments on the Capitol grounds.
I met Reese a few years back at Ft Polk/Leesville and picked at him about not having any fun at the Legislature. Now you tell me he went to ULM, my College, and trump appoints Julia Letdown to win the Senate?? Landry is doing a good job turning higher education into a patronage system, "to the Victor goes the spoils" and Julia can brag that the SHE "self reported" her victory at the Stock Market??? I can only suspect that Julia and Reese must have had some fun at ULM. thanks
Well, all of these shenanigans ought to make sure that any of our high school grads will be going out of state if they want a serious education
Those that can afford to do so, of course. Out of state tuition at a public university would be outside the ability of most of our high school grads to pay, barring serious financial aid from the out of state institution. We truly have a captive audience here. I have never known a Louisiana kid attending university elsewhere who did not come from a moneyed family.
So basically we would lose the best of the best to out of state scholarships. I know UT in Austin and A & M used to take it as a point of pride how many kids they lured from out of state with scholarship offers.
Louisiana higher education has always suffered from political interference going back to Huey Long. Looks like economic development is just lip service. True sustainable economic development more often than not has strong research universities at its core: Stanford and Berkeley in Silicon Valley, MIT and Harvard in computers and now biotech, Columbia, University of Chicago, and I could go on. LSU could be as well if the Governor and legislature would leave it alone.
And they wonder why our young people are leaving the state. The Good Ole Boy network is alive, well, and on steroids. So very sad.
Thank the lord we the people voted down the amendments last Saturday--that one that wanted to abolish the civil service was a doozy.
Education takes the 3rd row seat to everything else in higher education, apparently. As this continues, degrees from our institutions of higher learning will become worthless. It makes plain common sense that the head of a college or university should have an education-related doctoral degree. The fact that is no longer the case should tell us all where higher education ranks in our priorities for education as a whole.
The fact that Landry also wants to build more prisons at the expense of higher education (according to recent Pro Public report) gurantees that those students who can will leave, and those who can't will have to educate themselves.
Spot on Bob!!
Unfortunately this is not a surprise because these are the folks that has brought book burning, uh, banning to our public libraries and now want to erect the 10 Commandments on the Capitol grounds.
I met Reese a few years back at Ft Polk/Leesville and picked at him about not having any fun at the Legislature. Now you tell me he went to ULM, my College, and trump appoints Julia Letdown to win the Senate?? Landry is doing a good job turning higher education into a patronage system, "to the Victor goes the spoils" and Julia can brag that the SHE "self reported" her victory at the Stock Market??? I can only suspect that Julia and Reese must have had some fun at ULM. thanks
I can't wait for that alumni association email to show up!
The governor has made a lot of promises that can't be kept. Hiring mediocrities to run our colleges will make them mediocre or worse.