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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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• Turning a corner

  - 2006-01-01

  CLASSROOM LIGHTS HAVE BEEN switched on and off thousands of times since hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit last fall. But many IHEs that closed for the semester have stayed in the dark. Now, January marks the start of the first full semester back, and as schools around the Gulf Coast...

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• Loyola New Orleans digging in for next semester

  - 2005-10-28

  Kevin Wildes, a Jesuit bioethicist with an avocation for boxing, began his second year as president of Loyola New Orleans by closing the university for the fall semester. Hurricane Katrina forced that decision, as faculty and students fled the worst storm in American history. Huge swaths of the city flooded...

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• Tulane to Begin Spring Semester on January 17 as Originally Scheduled; Adds 'Lagniappe' Semester for Undergraduates

  - 2005-09-28

  NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Tulane University announced plans today to begin its spring semester on January 17, 2006 as originally scheduled. In a letter to Tulane students, faculty and staff posted on the universitybs website, www.tulane.edu, Tulane University President Scott Cowen announced the date and scheduled...

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• Tulane athletes to stage season despite Hurricane Katrina

  - 2005-09-06

  RUSTON, United States AFP — Tulane University athletes, their New Orleans campus flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, will stage a fall sports season and attend classes at colleges across Louisiana and Texas. The "Green Wave" American football program will operate here at Louisiana Tech, both schools announced...

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• Tulane University cancels fall semester

  - 2005-09-03

  NEW ORLEANS, United States AFP — Tulane University, a top institution of higher learning in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, has canceled its fall semester, its president announced. "Given the ongoing situation in the city, I am forced to make an extremely difficult decision -- Tulane University cannot hold a fall...

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