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Southern University at Shreveport is slated to lose $2,647,305 in state funding if a budget bill, HB1, is not amended by the Louisiana legislature.

As the budget continues to move through the state's legislature, higher educational institutions are expected to see a reduction of more than $200 million in state support. Particularly hard hit are the schools within the Southern University System, the nation's only system of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

The proposed budget cuts to the higher education could derail Southern University's effort to climb out of exigency and to lift furloughs from hundreds of employees on the Baton Rouge campus, Chancellor James L. Llorens said today.

The Southern University and A&M College System (SUS)--America's only historically black college and university system, an asset vital to the state of Louisiana and to the nation--will be devastated by the proposed budget cuts currently being considered by the Louisiana Legislature.

The Southern University Marching Band and the SU National Alumni Federation each received a 2012 HBCU Award from the Center for HBCU Media Advocacy at a national awards ceremony held on the campus of Bowie State University in the Wiseman Student Center on April 21, 2012.

Officials and students from all entities in Southern University System will be in the Rotunda of the State Capitol on Thursday for "Support Our Southern Day at the Capitol."

High school juniors and seniors will get a heavy dose of Southern University on April 11 when the University holds its annual "College Night on The Bluff."

The Southern University System will observe its annual Founders' Day in March with events to commemorate 132 years of providing educational opportunities to students from across the globe. The theme for the 2012 commemoration is "Renaissance Southern University: Strengthening Our Gift of a Strong Foundation."

The Southern University System Foundation has received more than $1 million in a gift from the James and Ruth Smith Trust.

The endowment, the largest bequest in the University's history, includes assets and property from the estate of the late James David Smith and the late Ruth Johnson Smith of Santa Barbara, California, both of whom were Southern University graduates.

The Southern University System Board of Supervisors will hold its regular meeting Monday, February 13, 2012 in the Board Meeting Room, 2nd Floor, J.S. Clark Administration Building, on the Southern University campus in Baton Rouge.