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• Recipients need flexibility

  - 2008-05-28

  Respect for donor intent is of paramount importance to colleges and universities. The generous gifts of donors have benefited students and society as a whole, allowing institutions to pursue life-saving research, expand academic programs to encompass new areas of knowledge, and provide facilities that bring town and gown together. ...

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• Putting the pieces together

  - 2007-05-01

  THE BATTLE TO RESTORE NEW-comb College, the women's college of Tulane University (La.), as a degree-granting institution continues in court this month, while efforts to support and fund the fight grow. In March, nine pieces of prized Newcomb pottery drew $27,500 during an auction at New Orleans Auction Galleries,...

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• Newcomb grads angry over demise

  - 2007-03-01

  Tulane University president Scott Cowen says he had hoped the graduates of Newcomb College would understand that he had no choice but to downsize after Katrina. Not only do many not understand, they're financing a lawsuit against Tulane, arguing it is misusing money entrusted to it...

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• Avon Foundation donation funds Tulane cancer screenings for

  - 2006-09-25

  The Avon Foundation awarded the Tulane Cancer Center a $250,000 grant to provide access to breast and cervical cancer screenings and follow-up care for uninsured and underserved women in New Orleans. Currently, only one in five women seeking care at community health centers in New Orleans are receiving...

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• Tulane University to close Newcomb College in effort to save money

  - 2006-02-20

  Prominent New Orleans jewelry designer Mignon Faget, who graduated from Newcomb College in 1955, credits the women's college with giving her the courage and tenacity to enter a whole new world outside Louisiana.Newcomb College jarred my mind and it also nurtured me at the same time, said Faget, who also...

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• Tulane University announces cutbacks, layoffs due to Katrina

  - 2005-12-29

  NEW ORLEANS Students at Tulane University will return to a school with a gutted engineering department, eight fewer sports programs and student housing replaced by cruise ships. The school is also laying off nearly 10 percent of its faculty--230 positions--before students return Jan. 19 for the first classes...

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• Tulane Univ. president: Tulane will be recovery role model

  - 2005-12-08

  To help rebuild the city along with eliminating a $65 million budget shortfall, Tulane University presented a plan this afternoon to realign its curriculum and programs to meet the needs of the city while cutting programs and staff.Fifty faculty positions in discontinued undergraduate and professional degree programs and 180...

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• Tulane to play on so we will not forget

  - 2005-09-12

  Classes have been canceled at Tulane University in what is left of New Orleans. Students have been farmed out to schools around the country. The football team had to beat a fast retreat out of town. Their hometown is a virtual ghost town thanks to the wrath of Hurricane Katrina....

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• Study says flirtatious women get fewer raises, promotions

  - 2005-08-05

  Women who send flirtatious e-mail, wear short skirts or massage a man's shoulders at work win fewer pay raises and promotions, according to a Tulane University study to be presented Monday at the Academy of Management annual meeting in Honolulu. In the first study to make plain the negative...

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• Female majority at Tulane mirrors national enrollment trend

  - 2005-01-03

  Single guys might want to note a Tulane University statistic that is attracting national attention. Tulane's ratio of women to men this year is 51.61-to-48.39. Of the 13,214 students enrolled, 6,820 are women compared with 6,394 men. Tulane mirrors a nationwide trend among top national universities...

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