Tag: Higher Education
Pull Quote
This caught my eye on the the front page of today’s Times-Picayune: “It always amazed me that you had these two universities that were right next to each other but they didn’t talk to each other,” Bruno said. “Why do we have two libraries? Why do we have two cafeterias?” For a brief moment I […]
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I went in to work last Tuesday just to remind everyone what I look like and make sure they hadn’t changed the lock on my office. Around noon I attended a “town hall meeting” on the University’s strategic plan, which is currently under draft. It’s eight plans in one, each addressing specific topics such as […]
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The Washington Post published an article titled Amid Katrina’s Ruins, Black Colleges Survive: Xavier University, the nation’s only historically black Catholic university, expected half its 4,100 students would return this semester; instead 3,110 are back on its restored campus, surrounded by uninhabitable houses and boarded-up shopping centers. Until I read this article, I hadn’t thought […]
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