Gov. Bobby Jindal has called for studying a merger of the University of New Orleans and Southern University at New Orleans as part of his legislative agenda. That proposal has kicked off a heated debate, but Jindal’s notion of a single-management board over all universities and community colleges could lead to other mergers and realignments, says John Maginnis. “If the Legislature won’t merge UNO and SUNO, it should at least take the two campuses out of their respective systems, LSU and Southern, and put them under the University of Louisiana System,” Maginnis says. “Putting the two schools under one system would facilitate their holistic and gradual growing together through shared faculty, facilities and courses, even administrators.” Read the full column here.
(John Maginnis publishes LaPolitics Weekly, a newsletter on Louisiana politics, at LaPolitics.com.)
