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Louisianaian here! Back when I did my PhD at LSU 5 years ago, the university seemed like it was constantly in a budget crisis from a combination of state fundin

Louisianaian here! Back when I did my PhD at LSU 5 years ago, the university seemed like it was constantly in a budget crisis from a combination of state funding cuts and public demands for low tuition (lots of people in Louisiana view LSU attendance as something like a birthright). As mentioned in the article, this cancelation is almost certainly driven by cost cutting. I hope my friends still there can still get the literature they need! Related article I found about a legal dispute LSU had with Elsevier: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/03/louisiana-state-takes-disagreement-elsevier-court https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/03/louisiana-sta...

new4thaccount 7y ago
Most on HN don't know about the TOPS program which pays for all Louisiana students to go to in-state public colleges (LA Tech, LSU, ULL, ULM...etc) tuition free if they meet some pretty basic requirements like 4 years of math and two years of foreign language in highschool in LA. Most Louisiana colleges require at least an 18 or a 21 on the ACT iirc to get in as well (pretty easy). I got a great engineering degree and then landed a great job because of this. There's a lot of bad in LA (crime, heat, humidity, mosquitos...etc), but this made up for a lot.