The Advocate: LSU faculty denounces furlough plan

By JORDAN BLUM

LSU faculty leaders came out of a meeting with LSU System President John Lombardi on Tuesday with the impression that widespread layoffs and declarations of financial emergencies are unlikely at LSU.

But LSU faculty continue to strongly oppose a proposal by LSU Chancellor Michael Martin that could force faculty to take furloughs — time off without pay — without approving an emergency state of “financial exigency” as is currently required.

The LSU chapter of the American Association of University Professors approved a new letter to Martin that said, “We are concerned about the wisdom and long-term effects of your request to the LSU System for greater power to implement furloughs without having to invoke financial exigency.

“In the hands of future chancellors, such powers may easily be abused,” stated the letter signed by Charles Delzell, a math professor and president of the AAUP chapter.

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