Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons Newsletter Faculty Senate 5-2016 Faculty Senate Newsletter, May 2016 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/senate-pubs Recommended Citation Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, "Faculty Senate Newsletter, May 2016" (2016). Newsletter. Paper 49. http://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/senate-pubs/49 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Senate at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Newsletter by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Volume 7, Issue 7 May 15, 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS President’s Column…..…………..………………………...………...1 With every change of regime comes a predictable if welcome discussion of the Higher Education Headliner; Faculty Benefits Experts to probe structure of higher education. In Louisiana, with its four systems and its Board of TIAA-CREF Servicing Fees …………………………………………2 Regents, this “conversation,” as administrators like to call it, usually centers on either King mounts National Campaign for Newsletter Position in Higher the rearrangement of campuses or the consolidation of administrative units or the Education Funding; YMCA Attack on Pro-College Sales Tax reduction of overhead. Occasionally, the more optimistic among us hope that, during Shows Rift in Charity Community; Louisiana Sweeps AAUP regime turnover, the membership of management boards might change (with the National Elections; AAUP Union on Winning Streak ……………..3 good effect of allowing current board members to resume their proper role, that of A.G.’s Corner ……………………………………………………...….4 wealthy heirs ironically professing the gospel of the self-made man).