Flagship Friends

LSU Chancellor Mike Martin – Mid-year budget cut increase

flagshipfriends — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:20:18 +0000

To: LSU faculty, staff and students From: LSU Chancellor Mike Martin Date: October 20, 2010 Re: Mid-year budget cut increase Dear LSU community, LSU has submitted a revised plan for meeting a new mid-year budget reduction of $5.1 million, as required by the Division of Administration. Below are the details of the cut, which we [...]

Letters assure 6 month employment, nothing more, for English Instructors

flagshipfriends — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:48:11 +0000

http://www.lsureveille.com/news/all-english-instructors-receive-notices-1.2361076 The same day English instructor Martha Strohschein learned she was nominated for the department’s teaching award, she also received her second termination letter from Humanities and Social Sciences Dean Gaines Foster. Strohschein, a senior instructor in the English Department, has taught at the University for 26 years and said her story is all too [...]

Flagship Friends is back

flagshipfriends — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:53:01 +0000

It is time for the LSU faithful to band together and fight the proposed budget cuts! Unless your voice is heard, the Governor and the Legislature will not know how important LSU is to you and to our state’s future. Join the Action Network today to make your voice heard.

Thanks to our Flagship Friends

flagshipfriends — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:25:56 +0000

With your help, FlagshipFriends.org helped concerned citizens send over 10,000 individual letters to Louisiana’s elected officials in a very short time span. Thanks for supporting your Tigers on the field and in the classroom. We will continue to keep you updated.

Gov. Jindal’s Line Item Veto Memo

flagshipfriends — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:48:11 +0000

http://www.legis.state.la.us/archive/09RS/veto/HB1v.pdf Gov. Jindal has signed HB1 (the 2009-2010 budget) with some specific line item vetos for some of the funding tied to reducing the budget cuts for higher education.

A Matter of Hours

flagshipfriends — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:30:24 +0000

The next 48 hours will determine how much of LSU’s budget is restored. We need your help. An e-mail is good, but if you have a moment, call your legislators’ offices to let them know you are concerned about LSU. Yesterday, the Senate amended 2 bills to help higher education: HB 689 would put $118 million [...]

Great Advice Given to Gov. Jindal

flagshipfriends — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:14:21 +0000

Four former Louisiana governors appealed to Gov. Bobby Jindal to preserve higher education as much as possible. Gov. Jindal committed not to cut state appropriations by more than 10%. Higher education is currently bracing for a 15% cut to state appropriations amounting to $219 million, of which LSU’s share is $32 million. These figures exclude [...]

Less Than Two Weeks

flagshipfriends — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:31:37 +0000

With less than 15 days remaining in the session, LSU still needs your help to restore its budget. No firm plan has been established to significantly minimize higher education’s budget cut. LSU is performing very well and we should support that progress. The Flagship University has a 61% graduation rate, conducts $140 million in research, and [...]

Our Thanks for the mention

flagshipfriends — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:38:35 +0000

We’d like to thank the following websites/blogs for their mention of Flagship Friends, and helping us reach LSU supporters in a time where we hope everyone’s voice can be heard. LSU Alumni Association Dandy Don La News Link S.O.S. – Save Our Schools If you’ve seen a flagshipfriends.org mention anywhere else, please leave that in [...]

La. Senate approves tax break delay

flagshipfriends — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 01:26:11 +0000

Per Baton Rouge Business Report Daily Report AM http://www.businessreport.com/archives/daily-report/2009/jun/03/1015/ The state Senate has approved postponement of a rollback of the Stelly tax plan, despite opposition from House members. Sen. Lydia Jackson, a Shreveport Democrat, says her bill would ease proposed budget cuts to higher education by generating $118 million. The bill would push back by [...]