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The article focuses on the condition of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was affected by Hurricane Katrina that forced it to cancel fall semester in the previous year. Nearly 90 percent of its 6,400 undergraduates returned to the university when it reopened in January 2006. There are several obstacles to the full recovery of the university. Despite a record 21,000 applications for this fall's freshman class, the university may end up falling some 200 short of its enrollment goal of 1,400 new students, which was already nearly 300 smaller than previous year's freshman class. Although most faculty members support the restructuring plan, some of those whose jobs are being eliminated are fighting it. Tulane's campus and its surrounding neighborhood are functioning again, but one third of the New Orleans is still deserted. The city is in varying stages of recovery. Changing the perception that the city is largely uninhabitable is especially important for Tulane, which draws about 80 percent of its students from outside Louisiana.

Comments on the state of Louisiana's merit scholarship program as of April 16, 1999. Potential state-budget deficit a threat to the program; Comments of the state's Commissioner of Higher Education, E. Joseph Savoie; Similar programs in other states; Rising popularity of the programs; Underestimation of the cost of setting low academic standards for the awards. INSET: Copying Georgia's HOPE: States That Are Weighing....

The article discusses the financial problems of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. It reports that 233 professors will lose jobs and 14 doctoral programs will be eliminated due to this financial crisis in the university. The University officials announced a sweeping restructuring that will slice $60-million from the annual budget and will result in the layoffs of 233 faculty members, the elimination of 14 doctoral programs and 5 undergraduate majors, and the suspension of 8 athletic teams.

This article focuses on decisions taken by Scott S. Cowen, president of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, after Hurricane Katrina. A business-school dean who assumed Tulane's presidency eight years ago, Mr. Cowen has now taken on the role of general here in the university's war room, as the New Orleans institution attempts to recover from the devastating blow Hurricane Katrina dealt to its campus 350 miles away. Within days of the storm, he made the first of what are sure to be many gut-wrenching decisions, canceling the fall semester for the university's 12,000 students. There is no time for celebration, however, and Cowen, determined and focused, plows right into today's goals. The most important: sending rescue teams to retrieve mail believed to be in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Dallas, and then delivering it to Houston. While the university has business-interruption insurance that covers payroll and other essential expenses for a few months, the university must hoard as much cash as possible to carry it through the shuttered fall semester and beyond, preparing for the possibility of a smaller student body in the spring.

Focuses on efforts in the state of Louisiana to close loopholes which make it harder for universities run out of houses to thrive as so-called diploma mills. Example of Raymond J. Chasse, who operates two universities; The colleges free from Louisiana's strict licensing requirements for faculty, curriculum and library resources; Fraudulent conduct; Passage of a bill which would affect tax-exempt institutions, such as religious college.

This article reports that Tulane University's president, Scott S. Cowen, has predicted that his institution will recover well from its shuttering by Hurricane Katrina, repositioning itself "in a Peace Corps environment" in New Orleans this coming spring. In an e-mail survey over the past several weeks, the university found that 500 faculty and staff members needed housing and another 500 were unsure of their needs. University officials are considering several options to temporarily house employees and students, but Mr. Cowen stated that he is frustrated with the lack of assistance on that front from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

This article reports that Tulane University and Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana, have announced reopening plans for the spring. The plans include two semesters between January 2006 and the end of June 2006 for undergraduates at Tulane. Tulane has offered to provide space for two other local institutions damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Tulane's president, Scott S. Cowen said that the biggest challenge to getting the university up and running again is to find enough housing for displaced faculty and staff members, as well as students who live off the campus.

Offers higher-education related news briefs from the United States as of May 12, 2000. Panel findings that show poor record of integration among Louisiana colleges and universities; Recommendations by a Texas higher education board for federal aid to the two historically black public colleges in the state; Naming of Byron McClenney as president of Kingsborough Community College; Criticism of Alabama Board of Education's plans to merge Montgomery's two technical colleges.

Reports that Louisiana state judge, Kay Bates signed an order blocking the law that would have expanded the authority of the state's Board of Regents pending the outcome of a lawsuit over its constitutionality. Expanded powers including the authority to confirm the selections of chancellors and presidents of the state's university systems; Increased authority opposed by Representative Melvin Holden.