Flagship Friends

Each chancellor of the LSU System’s 11 institutions proposed a campus-by-campus budget reduction plan at today’s Board of Supervisors meeting. Chancellor Michael Martin said he plans to protect the academic core, Flagship status and as many campus jobs as possible. “Moving back the Flagship is a cost we cannot afford,” Martin said. Martin said the [...]

Martin concerned about budget cuts

March 10, 2009

BATON ROUGE – LSU Chancellor Michael V. Martin said he has grave concerns about the future of the Flagship Agenda if the university takes the $45.1 million budget cut identified in documents released today by the LSU System. This recission is the result of an annualized $10.3 million cut that occurred in the current fiscal year plus an additional $34.8 million estimated for the next fiscal year.