Southern leader wants new higher ed formula to address historic underfunding

By: Piper Hutchinson

Outlets: Louisiana Illuminator

Published: October 13, 2026

Words: 754

Last Updated: 4 days, 9 hours ago

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Interim Southern University President Orlando McMeans wants the task force studying how to revamp the state’s higher education funding formula to take underfunding of Louisiana’s largest historically Black college into consideration.

McMeans asked the task force, which met Monday at the State Capitol, to take into account the $1.2 billion disparity between what Southern and LSU has received from the state since the 1980s as it reconfigures the formula to ensure Southern, …

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