Brown Offers $1.1 Million to Help Dillard, Xavier, Tougaloo Students
NEW ORLEANS
Brown University is offering $1.1 million in grants to help students resume their studies at several historically Black universities in Louisiana and Mississippi that were hit hard by Hurricane Katrina, according to the Ivy League school’s Web site.
The grants will help pay tuition for students who remain enrolled at Dillard and Xavier universities in New Orleans and at Tougaloo College in Mississippi.
Brown says it will provide scholarships of as much as $5,250 for the winter semester at the three schools if the students were permanent residents in the hurricane-affected areas and were enrolled at one of those colleges last fall.
Brown, which is in Providence, R.I., intends pay for the program with a portion of a $5 million hurricane relief fund established in October by liquor importer and 1942 Brown graduate Sidney Frank.
The grant is Brown’s second initiative to help schools affected by Katrina. In September, Brown and Princeton universities said they would help Dillard rebuild its campus.
