With all the top administrators bailing out at LSU, LouisianaVoice has received an anonymous tip that a bombshell might well be coming out of Friday’s meeting of the Board of Supervisors.
It involves another top – as in the very top – mover and shaker at the university packing his bags and rolling on between the ditches (apologies to Emmylou Harris). Boys and girls, can you say William Tate?
It would seem difficult for someone to give up such lucrative salary ($750,000), benefits and incentives in these uncertain times, but perhaps that might serve as a barometer of just how bad things really are on the beautiful campus south of downtown Baton Rouge.
Not since the upheaval in the days of Huey Long has LSU been such a political football, thanks in whole (and certainly not just in part) to the interference of Jeff Landry. And to be sure, it goes far beyond Landry’s demands that athletes line up for the National Anthem before games or his ridiculous, clumsy efforts to have Mike the Tiger brought into Tiger Stadium for games. This is a case of the administration’s undermining of the very foundation of higher education in Louisiana.
The atmosphere at the university right now, as the result of heavy-handed political maneuvers that gave the governor more say-so over higher education, is certain to send a top-tier university spiraling downward into the ranks of mediocre – or worse – institutions.
But there’s always football.
Louisiana Voice 
The MAGA view of “education” is driven by the propaganda they consume and the propaganda they consume is vehemently anti-intellectual – and that view is driven by the kind of people who put Project 2025 together. Yesterday Trump, ruling by executive order, attempted once again to extort and threaten colleges and universities with a number of orders, not the least of which is his desire to interfere in the accreditation process. But in an article from The Hill a White House staffer said the purpose of the executive orders “… is to ensure that we properly train the workforce of the future …” which is part of a longer quote but captured the gist of it. The link is below. But there is the vision those behind Project 2025 and the oligarchs in Trump’s Fourth Reich have for America, where labor is turned out annually, properly trained to take up their role in the workforce. They don’t want educated young people who can think critically. They want worker bees.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-signs-executive-orders-on-school-discipline-education-reform/ar-AA1DurLD#comments&commentId=3fb7108e-f67d-4275-a303-62bd73ef47c8