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UNO enrollment drops 12% this fall, losing 800 students

University faces $30M budget shortfall , spending freezes, and layoffs

Transition back to LSU System expected to boost enrollment

Lawmakers and officials hopeful LSU alignment will stabilize future growth

Enrollment at the University of New Orleans is down about 800 students this fall as the university deals with an ongoing fiscal crisis from a years-long enrollment slump.

There are 5,670 students enrolled at the university this semester, UNO President Kathy Johnson said in a campuswide email this week. The count is down about 12% from a year ago.

“This number is lower than we’d hoped, yet understandable given the challenges we’ve experienced over the course of the past year,” Johnson said. “The future

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