I'm on TOPS.
It all started when I was a senior in high school. After earning more than a 2.5 grade point average and a decent ACT score, TOPS got me through my first two years of college.
I've kept my grades up (for the most part) and I'm still earning my TOPS scholarship today.
Lately,...
State Treasurer John Kennedy released an opinion column Thursday, calling for the restructuring of higher education in Louisiana.
In the piece, Kennedy compared the state’s higher education system to conflicts in Iraq.
“Just as the Sunnis fight the Shiites who fight the Kurds for...
While the University’s 2009-10 budget cuts plan awaits the Board of Supervisors’ approval on August 27, departments across campus are bracing for the effects of a $19 million reduction in state funding.
Among the effects outlined in the proposed plan are 24 layoffs and the...
I just wanted to say thank you. Not for helping find a way to reduce cuts to higher education and health care, but for something much more important — your resolution honoring rapper Hurricane Chris.
On Wednesday, the Shreveport native and Godson of Rep. Barbara Norton even performed his...
Latin for "without day," the words "sine die" ended the drama-filled, topsy-turvy 2009 legislative session earlier this evening.
Lawmakers managed to compromise on the budget — the session's most talked about issue — and reduced higher education cuts by more than 50...
With only about a week left in the session, lawmakers are spending their Friday outside of the Capitol today.
Meetings will convene late afternoon on Father's Day, and there's a lot left to discuss before 6 p.m. Thursday.
Plenty of budget and funding measures are on the menu this week, and LSU is...
Only seven days are left in the session, and some grim budget realities are drawing near.
According to the University’s budget reduction plan for the 2009-10 fiscal year, LSU Press, the LSU Museum of Art, the Hilltop Arboretum, the Southern Review literary journal and many other auxiliary...
Today, the state Senate nipped and tucked House Bill 689 so much, it's unrecognizable.
Well, sort of.
The new and improved HB 689 looks a heck of a lot like Senate Bill 335. In fact, they have the same features.
SB 335, which is expected to fail in the House, would delay a planned income...
Today, the state Senate nipped and tucked House Bill 689 so much, it's unrecognizable.
Well, sort of.
The new and improved HB 689 looks a heck of a lot like Senate Bill 335. In fact, they have the same features.
SB 335, which is expected to fail in the House, would delay a planned income...
Using his line-item veto power, Gov. Jindal announced today his plans to strip $278 million from the budget bill.
That $278 million lies in legislation he doesn't think will gain full legislative approval, including the much talked (and blogged) about SB 335. The bill aims to delay a planned income...
What is so rascist about chanting "The South Will Rise Again", i mean c'mon, people who chant it ain't it rascist, its tradition and we should be able to say it, chant it, sing it, or whatever. They took Colonel Reb away and now this, before long it will be rascist to say Hotty Toddy.
