Can a new collaborative get buy-in on a sustainable strategy for Louisiana’s colleges and universities?

(Photography by Brian Baiamonte: Joe Rallo) The academic, business and nonprofit representatives assembled to discuss the future of higher education listened as higher ed commissioner Joseph Rallo rattled off a series of numbers that were no less grim for being all too familiar. In 2008, Louisiana’s budget for higher education was about $1.5 billion. Five