To the Editor:
What a thrill it was to see the Louisiana State University Jazz Funeral for Higher Education splashed all over The Chronicle‘s Web site (“At Rallies Across the Country, Students Turn Out in Defense of Public Education,” October 7). One of the things that got 400 faculty members and students riled up at this otherwise apathetic institution was the case of the Foreign Language 14. With $42-million in budget cuts mandated for the LSU campus for 2010-11, 14 foreign-language instructors are the only faculty members being dismissed in the middle of the academic year, for an approximate savings of $270,000. We have presented a very reasonable argument to the administration for extending our contracts—like those of 224 other instructors with endangered jobs—through August 2011, but we have been told that “we live in hard economic times,” and “the money simply isn’t there.”
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