This new addition request comes after six years of budget cuts that have taken $690 million out of funding for colleges, and tuition has filled only part of that gap.
Colleges would be rated on a series of measures -- including average tuition and student loan debt, graduation rates, and the average earnings of graduates.
The UL System announced that they are increasing tuition by a measure of ten percent. That means that things will be seeing a big increase for people in the area that want to get a better education.
Locally, UL is a fine school and educates people in all sorts of fields...
Governor Bobby Jindal signs into law legislation giving state universities more freedom from contracting, purchasing, and budgeting rules required of other state agencies.