Tulane University Cancels Fall Semester
NEW ORLEANS
Tulane University canceled its fall semester last week because of Hurricane Katrina and encouraged its students to take classes at others schools while New Orleans tries to clean up from the flooding.
Across town, the University of New Orleans campus appeared to be about two-thirds above water and the university said it planned to have Internet classes ready by October and satellite campuses open as soon as it could.
Dillard University said it wasn’t ready to give up on the semester either but officials were still considering how to proceed.
The hurricane left as many as 100,000 college students in the New Orleans area reconsidering their fall semester as conditions in the hard-hit city worsened, according to the American Council on Education. Officials said it likely would be months before New Orleans was functioning again.
Several schools already have offered to take in displaced Gulf Coast college students.
