One board to rule them all ...

9/17/09 9:46 PM

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 political power and natural resources, the three systems of higher education in Louisiana scrap over turf and scarce taxpayer dollars in a political free-for-all that plays out every year in the Louisiana Legislature,” Kennedy said. The three colleges systems in the state are the LSU System, Southern System and University of Louisiana System. They each have a board of supervisors group and had to deal with funding cuts because of the recession and slumping state revenues this summer. ...