House leader asks whether Louisiana has too many colleges

09:15 PM CST on Thursday, February 19, 2009
Bill Capo / Eyewitness News

BATON ROUGE, La. – Does Louisiana have too many state colleges and universities? The speaker of the house wants to know whether expert opinions uphold his impressions.

"We have a facility almost on every corner, and in New Orleans that is particularly true,” said state Rep. Jim Tucker, who is the speaker of the house. “Where that becomes a problem is it is not the human capital side of higher education where the real dollars are lost. It is in the infrastructure where we are not utilizing buildings and facilities as efficiently as we could."

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What do you think? Do you think there are too many colleges? What ways could the higher education system in our state help eliminate wasteful spending?