Groups ask to kill cuts to colleges
By JORDAN BLUM
Advocate Capitol News Bureau
Published: May 29, 2009 - Page: 1A
The Baton Rouge Area Chamber and the business-funded Blueprint Louisiana group asked the Legislature on Thursday to eliminate all proposed budget cuts for higher education.
The request to the Senate Finance Committee was to allow colleges to evolve and adapt to the recession economy before instituting any of the proposed “draconian” cuts of 15 percent of their state funds.
The arguments from the business community were even stronger than from higher education officials, who have asked that their proposed $219 million in cuts be halved.
“Don’t cut higher education so much that you gut it and lose it and set higher education back 20 years,” said Blueprint member Jimmy Maurin, chairman of Stirling Properties in Covington.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
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These business leaders know that higher education means more to Louisiana than just simply serving as its institution and embodiment of education. Higher-ed is critically important to sustain our economy, and if there's EVER hopes of growth or development, higher-ed is a centerpiece to that formula.
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