List of Colleges Accepting Stranded Students

marite · 09-01-2005, 01:09 PM

Please list names of colleges willing to accept students from MI, LA, AL affected by Katrina.

To start, here is an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education that mentions some colleges. Others are likely to volunteer in the next few days.

http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php...a4v4sku6amoghor

lderochi · 09-01-2005, 01:12 PM

University of Louisian-Lafayette
SMU
Marquette
University of Delaware (based on a news article I just read)

Those are just the ones I remember off the top of my head.

marite · 09-01-2005, 01:12 PM

Please list the names of colleges willing to accept students affected by Katrina. To start with, here is an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education. More colleges are likely to volunteer soon.

http://chronicle.com/temp/email.php?...4v4sku6amoghor

Sozo · 09-01-2005, 01:19 PM

Pennstate I think

marite · 09-01-2005, 01:19 PM

From the NYT (9-1-2005)
Iona College in New Rochelle;
Syracuse University (Tulane Students)
U VA (for VA students)

Quote:

John R. Ryan, acting chancellor of SUNY, urged the presidents of SUNY's 64 4-year and community college campuses to enroll and house students displaced in the storm.

bandit_TX · 09-01-2005, 01:28 PM

Syracuse University is reportedly taking them free of charge.

deb922 · 09-01-2005, 01:34 PM

I am posting a link from Ohio State about their donations to the relief fund for Katrina victims. http://www.osu.edu/news/lvl2_news_story.php?id=1199

Ohio State does not start classes until Sept 21. If they decide to accept students, it would give Tulane students more time to find out what is happening at Tulane and they could start with the student body instead of joining classes after they have started.

U of Cincinnati also does not start until Sept. 21.

I don't know if this information is any help for displaced Tulane students, I thought that it might be nice to know which school have a later starting date to give students more time to know what their plans might include.

marite · 09-01-2005, 01:34 PM

Penn State (thanks, Sozo)

http://live.psu.edu/story/13296

marite · 09-01-2005, 01:37 PM

FRom Deb922:

I am posting a link from Ohio State about their donations to the relief fund for Katerina victims. http://www.osu.edu/news/lvl2_news_story.php?id=1199

Ohio State does not start classes until Sept 21. If they decide to accept students, it would give Tulane students more time to find out what is happening at Tulane and they could start with the student body instead of joining classes after they have started.

U of Cincinnati also does not start until Sept. 21.

taxguy · 09-01-2005, 01:39 PM

Syracuse will temporarily take them (enrolled Tulane students) with no tuition. I assume that means for one semester. For the first 15 kids that apply to this program from Tulane, they get free room and board too!

jenskate1 · 09-01-2005, 01:42 PM

Rice will.

http://www.explore.rice.edu/explore/Tulane.asp

SplashMom · 09-01-2005, 01:46 PM

The University of Tennessee -

http://pr.tennessee.edu/news/release.asp?id=2224

1moremom · 09-01-2005, 01:49 PM

Penn State- "The university is also accepting students attending colleges or universities shut down by Hurricane Katrina at one of the Penn State locations." The local paper does not identify which branch campus(es). Classes just started.

achat · 09-01-2005, 01:50 PM

Rutgers University is offering classes to New Jersey collegians who are going to Tulane and all Gulf Coast colleges affected by Katrina.

http://ur.rutgers.edu/medrel/viewArt...ArticleID=4683

mini · 09-01-2005, 01:54 PM

I'm very glad to hear that the Tulane students will find a home, but I'm even more concerned about the Loyola and, especially, the Xavier students, almost all of the latter of whom are on financial aid. Xavier, an 80% Black university, sends 17% of its students on to medical school (a far higher percentage than Yale or Princeton, or Tulane for that matter), and their alumni make up a significant percentage of the African-American medical workforce in the southeast. But there is very little endowment at the school to speak of, certainly not anywhere that which will be needed for recovery, and the ripple effects in the African-American community will be felt for years to come.

So I'm very glad that Rice (and other schools) will be accepting the Tulane students (who, in many cases, also have the money to get to where they need to be), but the Xavier and Loyola students are mainly from that area of the U.S. hit by Katrina, and are likely left without anywhere to go (and any resources, either personal or from the school, to do so).