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The University of Louisiana System is launching a sweeping restructuring study as several campuses grapple with multimillion-dollar budget crises, Louisiana Illuminator writes.
The system’s board voted Thursday to form a task force of administrators, faculty, students and athletics officials from all nine universities to evaluate shared services, standardized course numbering and long-term financial fixes—particularly for athletics, where every campus is running a deficit.
President Rick Gallot says the initiative has been in the works since he took office in 2023 and aims to strengthen the system’s oversight after financial problems at the University of New Orleans, UL Lafayette and UL Monroe went undetected.
UNO’s crisis prompted lawmakers to move the campus back into the LSU System, which it had been a part of until 2011, next July.
Job impacts are possible if HR, accounting or IT functions are consolidated, though system leaders are planning town halls and a public feedback process.
LSU, meanwhile, is pursuing its own fast-tracked restructuring.
