Over the past couple of weeks, several stories have come out of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, as financial woes - and their impacts - have been revealed.

UL Interim President Jamie Hebert announced the university is facing at $25 million deficit. In a letter to employees, he announced the closure of the Office of Sustainability and Community Engagement, and administrative restructurings in the Office of Communications and Marketing and in the Office of Auxiliary Services - a loss of six positions.

Our reporter attended a town hall meeting last week; Hebert told attendees that administrators were trying to cut 10 percent of expenses, and that additional "human impact" was inevitable. The interim president told the UL Lafayette community that the administration’s goal is to

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