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• Professional sports, Hurricane Katrina, and the Economic redevelopment of new Orleans

  - 2007-10-01

  Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans in late August 2005, resulting in damage to much of the city's sports infrastructure and the departure of both of New Orleans' major-league professional sports teams, the National Football League Saints and the National Basketball Association Hornets. What should the city provide...

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• Tulane University: from recovery to renewal

  - 2007-06-22

  HURRICANE KATRINA took more than 1,500 lives. Most of those people died in their homes because they could not escape, or they died trying to escape the flood waters. The hurricane submerged 80 percent of the parish, a land mass seven times the size of Manhattan. The flood lasted for...

  Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Katrina, recovery, SOFTWARE, Tulane University

• HURRICANE KATRINA AND NEW ORLEANS UNIVERSITIES

  - 2007-05-01

  I. INTRODUCTION The devastation that Hurricane Katrina inflicted on the universities of New Orleans in late August 2005 is undoubtedly the most serious disruption of American higher education in the nation's history.1 This was hardly the first time that collegiate facilities had been destroyed and academic programs halted; one need...

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• New Orleans colleges to pay more for security

  - 2007-04-30

  With the image of the Virginia Tech shooter brandishing semi- automatic pistols burned into the nation's psyche, college administrators nationwide are reviewing campus emergency communication and security plans, investigating a range of technology from low-tech bullhorns to high-tech text messaging. As New Orleans universities continue to reel from...

  Tags: Katrina, officer, SECURITY, Tulane University, Virginia Tech

• A year later: New Orleans institutions take recovery efforts off campus

  - 2006-09-07

  NEW ORLEANS Like the resilient residents, city leaders and community boosters battered and displaced by Hurricane Katrina, officials from the Big Easy's colleges and universities vowed early on to come back. But for Tulane University, one of the biggest challenges to overcome before resuming classes in January was...

  Tags: Johnson, Katrina, Louisiana, Tulane University

• New Orleans-area colleges project 80 percent of pre-Katrina

  - 2006-07-03

  Ronald Maggiore, associate vice chancellor for enrollment management and dean of admissions at the University of New Orleans, says rarely is there a radical change in university's enrollment numbers from year to year, or semester to semester. Typically, it's less than 5 percent, and the usual predictors, like...

  Tags: INTERNET, Katrina, Loyola University, Tulane University

• Allianz fights school's claim over damage from Katrina.(News)

  - 2006-04-10

  Byline: DOUGLAS McLEOD NEW ORLEANS-An excess property insurer of Tulane University is asking a court to rule that it has no liability for more than $100 million of the school's Hurricane Katrina losses, making Tulane among the latest Gulf Coast po Byline: DOUGLAS...

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• Flood of History, The

  - 2006-04-01

  CONNECTION Interviews Historian Douglas Brinkley Douglas Brinkley is an award-winning author and historian and director of Tulane University's Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization. His wide-ranging portfolio includes books on John Kerry and the Vietnam War, Ronald Reagan and D-Day, Rosa Parks, Henry Ford, Dean Acheson and Jimmy Carter. He...

  Tags: education, INTERNET, Katrina, Tulane University

• Starting Anew: biding their time in out-of-state teaching positions, New Orleans faculty members are optimistic about a post-Katrina return to the 'Big Easy'

  - 2006-03-23

  Not a day goes by that Dr. Jeanine R. Burse doesn't wonder what she would be doing if she hadn't been laid off from her job at Xavier University of New Orleans. It was more than a job, and more than a return to her alma mater. The former...

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• Commentary: College students get down to business post-Katrina

  - 2006-03-13

  College has changed since the mid-1980s when you needed to know coding to use computers and I had hair and four jobs working my way through.It's changed in other ways, too. Last week, I stepped into an august institution of higher learning where savory stacks of pizza boxes and chilled...

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