LSU Eunice chancellor responds to budget release

LSU Eunice Chancellor William Nunez has released a statement in response to the budget presented Friday morning by Gov. Bobby Jindal's Office.
The following is Nunez's statement in full:
“The Governor’s office released its Fiscal Year 2016 Budget today to the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget. The Executive Budget includes proposed reductions of $567 million in the State General Fund to higher education, equating to a 78 percent cut to Louisiana’s public colleges and universities – representing the largest cut of its kind in U.S. higher education history;  and, while the Governor’s executive budget proposes promising recurring solutions to help mitigate the higher education cut, all of these solutions (such as, $372 million dedicated tax credits) will require legislative review and approval.
“The LSU System, under President King Alexander’s leadership, is also pursuing its own creative solutions for financial stability in order to move all LSU institutions from a funding model which is dependent upon short-term, incremental financing, to one in which all LSU campuses will be increasingly capable of taking control of its collective future for the ultimate benefit of their students, their parents and their alumni and donors –all  supporters who are counting upon LSU to effectively meet this challenge.
“Therefore, LSU Eunice seeks the full support of all of its publics as it works, cooperatively, in the months ahead with the Governor and the State Legislature, in order to ameliorate the severity of these historic cuts and, in doing so, seek to effect long-term stability for all LSU System members.”