<p>I’m a parent of a recent Tulane grad and I appreciate the OP’s commentary. He indicated it as a “shout-out” , a heads-up re the construction. If I had a new student coming there, that’s something I’d want to know and consider in my dorm choice, if I could.</p>
<p>I also think that the older Tulane dorms ARE pretty bad, at least compared to other schools we had familiarity with, particularly given the high cost of tuition and the fact this is a private university. Tulane certainly needed to improve dorm quality and probably should have (and would have) started on that path sooner. However, Katrina set them back financially and timing-wise. The freshman dorms (with the exception of Wall) aren’t very good and certainly on a comparison chart for the 20+ schools we visited with my kids, were on the low end. And sophomore dorms were notoriously known to be among the worst (at least in the past that was true). Beyond that, they DO improve in quality. Just the maintenance difference is pretty obvious upon casual inspection.</p>
<p>Housing has some employees who really seem to care, but by and large, there’s much room for improvement in managing the Housing functions, including the cleaning/maintenance. Without a doubt, the kids there should be held accountable as well–boorish behavior shouldn’t be tolerated. </p>
<p>There’s room here on both sides (kids and Housing) for improvement. However, once again, I appreciated the OP’s information.</p>