House panel votes to give Regents more control
by Koran Addo - Advocate (excerpt)

The state House Education Committee voted Wednesday to give more control to the Louisiana Board of Regents in determining how Louisiana’s college systems spend their state funding allocations.

Those in favor of House Bill 395 said the measure would clarify the sometimes murky relationship between the Board of Regents, the state’s higher education policymaker, and the different management boards overseeing the Southern, LSU, University of Louisiana and Louisiana Community and Technical College systems.

Opponents said the legislation would turn the Regents into a “super board,” rendering the university management boards irrelevant.