The Foreign Language Fourteen

LSU panel to interview finalists in dean search - Advocate (12/7)
Many instructors to lose employment in January - Daily Reveille (12/6)
Victory for tenure rights in Louisiana - Academe Online (Nov.-Dec. 2010)
Another AAUP letter requests extension of non-renewal date - Daily Reveille (11/23)
University instructors receiving non-renewal notices begin job search - Daily Reveille (11/12)
Protestors feel impact of cuts already - WVLA-33 (11/10)
Firing 14 at Midyear to Save $270,000 - Chronicle of Higher Education (11/7)
Language instructors object to job cuts - The Advocate (11/6)
National advocacy group gets behind LSU instructors - WVLA-33 (11/5)
AAUP wants University to reinstate instructors - Daily Reveille (11/4)
LSU instructor wants to teach class for free - WBRZ (11/3)
Proud Students present 'Don't Sink LSU' banner to Faculty Senate - Daily Reveille (11/3)
National faculty group criticizes LSU layoffs - Advocate (11/2)
AAUP Protests Louisiana State U's Plan to Lay Off 14 Language Instructors - Chronicle of Higher Education (11/2)
Collateral Damage - Baton Rouge Business Report (10/18)
Language classes decrease for spring - Daily Reveille (10/14)
Our View: Cost of cuts incalculable - Advocate (10/10)
Administration at odds with faculty, war of the protocols begins - Daily Reveille (10/6)
Budget cuts taking over - Tiger Weekly (10/6)
Setting record straight on 'Foreign Language 14' - Daily Reveille (10/4)
Fired foreign language 14 confront Chancellor Martin - Daily Reveille (10/1)
Chancellor honest about budget cuts at forum - Daily Reveille (9/29)
LSU Chancellor discusses budget - Advocate (9/29)
LSU faculty, students face off with chancellor over budget cuts - WBRZ-2 (9/28)
Letter to the Editor - Advocate (9/24)
AAUP requests salary reductions - Daily Reveille (9/23)
Classics instructors fired, questions remain unanswered - Daily Reveille (9/22)
Foreign language classes unresolved - Daily Reveille (9/23)
Letters to the Editor - Daily Reveille (9/20)
Article on LSU instructors is spin - Advocate (9/17)
Letter to the Editor - Daily Reveille (9/16)
Most LSU instructors employed through spring - Advocate (9/2)
LSU, prepare to kiss your foreign languages goodbye - Daily Reveille (9/1)
University to eliminate 4 foreign languages - Daily Reveille (9/1)
LSU to cut four languages - Advocate (9/1)

Who are the Foreign Language Fourteen?

We are fourteen instructors of foreign languages at Louisiana State University who have been non-reappointed as of January 21, 2011 because of budget cuts. We teach classical studies, Latin, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Swahili. We have 160 years of service to LSU between us.

The state legislature has handed down catastrophic budget cuts to Louisiana State University ($42 million for the academic year 2010-2011) but the Foreign Language Fourteen are the ONLY faculty casualties so far. By dismissing us in the middle of an academic year, the University will save approximately $270,000 in salary and benefits, less than 1% of of the entire budget shortfall. After the other 224 endangered instructors had their contracts extended through August, we respectfully requested an extension of our own contracts by a mere sixteen weeks so that we could finish the academic year with a sense of purpose and closure. Our repeated appeals have been denied by the administration "given the budget situation."

Jazz Funeral Coverage

At Rallies Across the Country, Students Turn Out in Defense of Public Education - Chronicle of Higher Education (10/7)
Mock ‘jazz funeral’ at LSU laments effect of budget cuts - The Advocate (10/8)
More than 300 faculty, students attend ‘jazz funeral’ as protest against decline of higher education - Daily Reveille (10/8)
State cuts education funding - Tulane Hullabaloo (10/8)
WAFB (story and video)
WBRZ (video)
WGNO ABC26 (video)
WVLA NBC33 (video)
RIP-LSU (video)
LSUnited (video)
Letter to the editor - Daily Reveille (10/7)

Proud Students

Proud students presents "Don't Sink LSU" banner to Faculty Senate - Daily Reveille (11/3)
University students start protest organization Proud Students - Daily Reveille (10/12

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