How do budget cuts affect us?

• Significant tuition increases.
• Essential academic programs are cut or drastically diminished, such as Paralegal studies, Women’s and
• Gender Studies, Geography, Fine Arts and more...
• Fewer classes to choose from and larger class sizes, making it difficult to graduate in a timely manner.
• Faculty, staff, and student jobs are being cut — across Louisiana, 2000 university employees were laid off in 2009.
• Non-traditional, working students, and students of color are being hit the hardest by these cuts.
• Most public university students now have to work long hours every week while in school.