WSJ article on Challenges facing Tulane

[Eagle79]

<p>Interesting reading in today’s WSJ on the challenges faces by Tulane. Here is the first 2 paragraphs:</p>

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HOUSTON – A week after escaping his flooded New Orleans campus in a dump truck, Tulane University President Scott Cowen stood in shorts and days-old stubble before his team of deans and administrators in a Houston hotel. Holding a red marker up to an easel board, he asked them to list problems facing the school.</p>

<p>There are plenty. Students are scattered around the country with some withholding tuition checks. The medical school’s 325 doctors have no billing system to collect their fees. Some of the university’s most prestigious research – including the world’s longest-running study of heart disease in children – is in shambles.

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<p>For the full article here is the link:</p>

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