LSU slices Vice Chancellor Jabour’s job
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LSU continued to make budget reduction moves Friday by eliminating a vice chancellor position and beginning a reorganization of the university relations department.
The move means that Rusty Jabour, vice chancellor of communications and university relations, will be laid off in a couple of weeks after assisting with a transition period.
Jabour, an LSU graduate, started at LSU on Jan. 1, 2008, under former LSU Chancellor Sean O’Keefe.
Jabour also is a former spokesman for Gov. Bobby Jindal.
LSU Chancellor Michael Martin said the move is a business decision in line with slicing administrative positions in order to protect the university’s academic core from state budget cuts.
He called Jabour “incredibly gracious.”
“This is one of the vice chancellors we can consolidate with other functions,” Martin said Friday. “This is entirely budget-driven.”
Martin said the position elimination is the first step in a streamlining of LSU’s public affairs departments.
Even though the move was not part of LSU’s proposed budget reduction plan, Martin said other administrative positions throughout the university could still be sliced as well.
Jabour said Friday the department had already frozen two vacancies and his termination was simply part of the budget cuts.
“It’s been an absolutely deep honor to serve my alma mater,” Jabour said. “These are historically tough budget times and he (Martin) is having to make difficult decisions, and this is one of them.”
Jabour said he is happy to stay on for two or three more weeks to aid in the transition process.
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