Election season for multiple state positions is finally over and among those elected, Bobby Jindal will remain governor of Louisiana.

Jindal is the first Indian-American to be governor in Louisiana’s history, and according to Jindal’s website, he had the highest percentage of votes ever in state history with 65.8 percent. Although that is a great accomplishment, Jindal’s win should bring some concern to students pursuing higher education in Louisiana.

As a political figure, it’s important to address issues while in office that heavily effect the citizens, and one of the issues is the economy. The economy is in the most fragile state that it has ever been in, and everyone is hoping that things will begin to get better in the coming years. It is important that political leaders come up with solutions that can benefit the majority.

Unfortunately, the main casualty that is under review when it comes to budget cuts is higher education. The importance of higher education is talked about the most amongst high school students through all four years of high school.

We tell the students that it is important to attend college to further their education so that they can get the job that they desire and make a bigger salary.

An exciting part of applying to different colleges is being able to fill out applications to those that have the best football team or the best department for your major.

Some high school students even look at going to the college that their parents once went to so that they can continue the tradition in the family of having the same alma mater.

According to the Times-Picayune, back in January of this year Jindal was looking to attack higher education for budget cuts.

His plan for the higher education system was to merge colleges, with the exception of LSU, together to lower maintenance costs. For example, ULM, Tech and GSU would all be combined to become one big college campus. It would mean one system, one board and one president for students that could be coming together from all three of those universities.

This is a bad idea because schools could become overcrowded and alumni will not be happy in putting their money into one big college rather than the original college that they graduated from.

It is best that the colleges stay the way that they are to at least keep things sane for the students because most have to worry about if the economy is going to affect them having a job after college.

I am sure that there are things that can be cut other than higher education.