Dear forum friends,
The Chronicle of Higher Education has devoted a forum thread to universities and colleges that are taking in students and faculty displaced by the hurricane. Administrators and faculty are posting up-to-date information as well as offering transportation to the schools. The link is: http://chronicle.com/jobs/forums/list.php?f=19
Dear forum friends,
As I posted yesterday, The Chronicle of Higher Education has devoted a forum thread to universities and colleges that are taking in students and faculty displaced by the hurricane. Administrators and faculty are posting up-to-date information as well as offering transportation to the schools. The link is: http://chronicle.com/jobs/forums/list.php?f=19
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As of today, the list has expanded to include some California colleges with offers of housing.
Moving thread from IMHO to MPSIMS.
The president of my University (in NYC) announced such a plan on Thrusday. I heard about it when a colleague complained about us opportunistically poaching students and generally taking advantage of a natural disaster.
File under “No good deed goes unpunished,” I guess.
Syracuse University offered places to 300 displaced Tulane students and appears to be doing all it can to help displaced students and faculty. Looks like there may still be some international study opportunities
Here’s info from their website.
In Ohio, state colleges will help students from Ohio who were affected by the hurricane. Here’s the press release from the Governor’s office. It includes a contact phone number. It’s important to note that Ohio State University classes don’t start for a couple of weeks, so you won’t be playing catch-up if you’re able to attend this quarter.
GT
NC State has also opened its doors to students:
http://www.ncsu.edu/registrar/hurricane/
http://www.ncsu.edu/news/geninfo/oblingerltr090205.htm
The University of South Florida is knocking part of the out-of-state tuition off for Katrina-affected students.
Boston College is allowing displaced students to apply as visiting students, and I heard yesterday from my chaplain (at the Law School) that we will be taking in some kids from Tulane.
Welcome.
My alma mater is taking in 100 Tulane and Xavier students. As well as students from the NY Capitol Region who were displaced from their school by Katrina. They are letting them attend RPI for free for the fall 2005 semester. No tuition, room and board, or fees. They are also taking in a few faculty and student life professionals.
I’m a Tulane School of Public Health student (or at least I was supposed to be - I was going to register on Monday, the day the hurricane hit), and I’m going to try to apply at the University of Michigan, close to where my parents live. They said they’d be admitting people on a case-by-case basis, but that they were forwarding my request to their school of public health, so I should be able to go there this semester.
From the LSU website, a list of universities offering assistance to students affected by the hurricane. I went to an assembly at LSU yesterday, where the chancellor informed us the university has admitted 1,400 students from LSU (NO), Tulane and Loyola. That number will probably be growing too. (parking, gah!!)
The University of Kentucky is offering tuition, housing and meal plan waivers to all displaced Gulf Coast students. We’ve already taken in a dozen and we’re expecting more.
I was wondering how many students were affected. This story from CBS news says that there are about 100,000 displaced college students.
Looks like schools in the San Diego area and in Indiana are also helping out.
The CBS article cites concerns that students won’t go back to their original schools.
GT
In Long Island, my alma mater Dowling College is taking in displaced students:
Not for degrees though. They can transfer credit back to their schools when they go back. If they can’t go back? I don’t know what happens.
Are most schools accepting transfers or is this meant to be a temporary thing for everyone?
In the CBS story I linked to above, it says that the American Council on Education is encouraging schools to enroll students as visitors. They’re afraid that the schools in the areas affected by the hurricane will lose students permanently and then be in even worse financial shape.
GT
My school (Cal State Bakersfield…yeah, I know 
) is taking in hurricane victims for the fall quarter (no one will be rejected-of yet).
My alma mater and current school are both joining in.
Penn State is also accepting students temporarily.