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The annual LSU Faculty Council Meeting held Monday allowed faculty and staff to express concerns and have open dialogue with LSU President William Tate IV.

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LSU faculty and staff raised concerns about censorship in classrooms, campus infrastructure and budgets Monday during the annual Faculty Council Meeting.

We as faculty, we as educators, need to be able to have the freedom to have these hard conversations that maybe people dont want to have, but its important because we are in higher education," LSU Librarian Randa Lopez Morgan said.

Morgan spoke on behalf of faculty members worried about not being allowed to teach or discuss topics like diversity and critical race theory with students and asked how the university plans to support them.

President William Tate said that censorship is currently a resolution that could make its way into legislative discussion, but that it is not yet a bill.

"There is no bill at this point," President Tate said. "Its a resolution, which obviously will generate lots of discussion. Our job is to keep that from happening in a bill format.

Faculty members also brought up budgeting, infrastructure concerns and a new tenure bill which President Tate said will be a focus this year.

"We laid out some of the matters that we are working with them on this year to secure faculty raises, to secure support for graduate students, more support for the physical infrastructure buildings, including the library," President Tate said.

President Tate said he is hopeful the Legislature will support legislation for a new library.

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