LSUA should have never been upgraded to a 4-year university. The problem is our state politicians lack the testicular or ovarian fortitude to begin downsizing the higher education system in the state of Louisiana. Too many politicians in state government are only focused on maintaining their political careers. There are individuals who float from federal, state, and local government positions and keep collecting taxpayer dollars with no real impact on change
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I had no idea it was a 4-year university until today. Curious as to where it was in relation to Alexandria, so I looked it up, and itās several miles south of it. They really just built it out in the middle of nowhere off a highway surrounded by farmland.
Easy fix for these enrollment numbers.
No more DEI/social engineeering BS for incoming Fr. Word of that crap gets around to the parents who are actually paying the bill.
Get off the Greeks back! Let them be college students and do what college students do. Word of babysitting the Greeks gets around as well.
Most importantly, beat big time programs in all sports. No better publicity than winning big games.
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LSU-A didnāt start offering baccalaureate degrees until Fall 2003, after legislation was passed in 2001 to make it a 4-year university.
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So how long will it take to get that deficit to zero?
If they save $100,000 a year, it would take 250 years!
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Radical changes that should be made for the long term, considering national enrollment trends and higher ed contraction:
Close:
- Grambling
- SUNO
- LSUE
- Fletcher
- Nunez
- Central Louisiana CC
- SUS
- NWLACC
- Louisiana Delta
Convert from 4-year to 2-year:
- LSUA
- ULM
- McNeese
- Nicholls
- UNO
Eliminate football:
- ULM
- McNeese
- Nicholls
Retain one HBCU:
- Southern University
Retain one FCS Football program:
- SLU (has enrollment to help support financially)
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With the upcoming budget cuts and department moves, two years.
Shorter if we can grow our undergraduate student population to 20k. Apparently 21k the university starts to make money. From what Iāve been told.
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Maybe in the next round of cuts they cut Jay Walker. 
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Iām assuming you meant total enrollment. As of Fall 2025, our undergraduate enrollment is 13,828 so getting to 21,000 would be a mighty leap.
I mean undergraduate enrollment of 20k.
Graduate students often cost the university money.
Which is exactly why Iāve been so vocal about the university lying about its enrollment. Counting non-degree seeking students in their number.
Well, if weāre going to make a push to get to 20K undergraduate enrollment we better be ready to make considerable investment into housing and classroom space.
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I know for a fact LSU and Texas State is forcing students into hotels as dorm housing, so we wouldnāt be the first. We just have to be willing to do business deals with the extended stay hotels that have things like mini kitchens in the rooms.
We have loads of room for new dorms around the athletic complex.
What if the Blackham Coliseum space was developed into a mixed-use housing space for students?
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Crazy the guy who caused all this is still living rent free on campus collecting 500k a year.
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6 positions save a lot more than 100K, probably closer to 1 million.
I think they need to build the dorms where the Tennis Courts are and move the tennis Courts to the corner of Bertrand and Congress.
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Or we get a Rodeo Team back and compete for those National Titles, Blackheim is a very decent coliseum for that.
Is there any place to find out what our on-campus capacity was with the Soviet-style dorms like Stokes, Bancroft, and Denbo vs the new āsuite-style" they replaced them with?
Did we pull a āstadiumā and replace cheap capacity with premium features and amenities?