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• 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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• 'They are starting to pay attention': President Ronald Mason talks about how Jackson State University is raising its profile

  - 2007-02-08

  Ronald Mason Jr. may be the only college president in the United States who's had the experience of running a major city's public housing authority. While serving as general counsel at Tulane University in the late 1990s, Mason was charged with the task of overseeing the Housing Authority of New...

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• Idea Village, Tulane offer business support

  - 2006-07-15

  The Idea Village, a New Orleans nonprofit devoted to supporting local entrepreneurial ventures, will launch the first IDEAcorps team in partnership with Tulane University Monday. The nonprofit will hold a news conference beginning at 10 a.m., at the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau on St. Charles Ave.,...

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• Tulane University President Scott Cowen to testify before Congress

  - 2006-04-26

  Tulane University President Scott Cowen will testify Wednesday at the House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce in Washington, D.C., to ask for more money for education in New Orleans. Cowen, who chairs the Education Committee of Mayor Ray Nagin's Bring New Orleans Back Commission...

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• Former Presidents Bush and Clinton to Speak at Tulane UniversityCommencement

  - 2006-03-10

  News Advisory: George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States, and William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, will be the keynote speakers at Tulane University's 2006 Commencement, May 13 at 9:30 a.m. in the New Orleans Arena. The two former presidents, who first joined force...

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• AAUP Responds to Katrina's Impact on New Orleans Universities

  - 2006-03-01

  The damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina late last August on New Orleans and the Gult Coast region has been called the worst natural disaster ever experienced in the United States. The damage to institutions of higher education and their faculties, in New Orleans alone, has been immense. No major institution...

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• New Orleans private universities work together in effort to resume

  - 2005-10-12

  Tulane, Xavier, Dillard and Loyola universities are working together to support efforts to resume classes in January. The four institutions have formed a consortium to allow Xavier and Dillard to hold classes this spring on the campuses of Tulane and Loyola universities, as well as to share meeting and administrative...

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• Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the Editor)

  - 2005-09-09

  Bush, Hastert owe us the truth, apologies I am an alumnus of Tulane University and grew to love New Orleans while I lived there. My son was set to begin his senior year at Tulane and was one of the fortunate ones to evacuate in...

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• Died.(Dona Lea Hedrick, Jeannette Katherine Laguaite and James Bernard Lingwall)(Obituary)

  - 2005-09-06

  Dona Lea Hedrick, professor emeritus at the University of Central Florida, in Tallahassee, FL on June 3. Professionally, she is remembered for her contributions to the field of children's language development and disorders through her publications, including the Sequenced Inventory of Communication Disorders (SICD; with E....

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• Former University Presidents to Host Conference Call on Pricing-Out Report at 12 p.m. Today

  - 2004-04-13

  News Advisory: Former Tulane University President Eamon Kelly and former College of Charleston President and South Carolina Senate Candidate Alex Sanders will host a conference call today at 12 p.m. EDT today to discuss a new report being released today which details record high college tuition costs and 220,000 students...

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