New Orleans's Black Colleges Hit Hard

[flowomo]

Schools Worry About Losing Faculty to Host Institutions While They Rebuild
By Lois Romano, Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, October 1, 2005; Page A01

(snip) Concern is growing among black educators about the future of New Orleans's three historic African American universities, which were hit much harder by Katrina -- and have fewer resources with which to recover -- than the city's other major colleges.

Dillard University, Xavier University of Louisiana and Southern University at New Orleans got smacked with at least $1 billion in flood and fire destruction -- by far the worst damage of all the city's institutions of higher education. (snip)

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The school where I teach, Dickinson College, has taken in 11 students from Dillard -- 2 are in my journalism class. Dickinson has been very generous in this regard and has every hope the students will be able to return to Dillard.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/30/AR2005093001715.html

[jaysunb]

1. Recommended

This is very important.

[DawnneOBTS]

2. Very Sad...

all who didn't vote for BushCo. fall by the wayside. Very, very sad indeed. All people were not created equal in the eyes of BushCo.