Tulane-by-the-Bay

There are a couple of signs that California Hall--Berkeley's High Administrators--are trying to figure out what fraction of Tulane we could house here at U.C. Berkeley for the fall semester...

My back-of-the-envelope guess is 10%: double up in some student residences, double up in some faculty offices, keep the lights on later and repeat lectures (or have Tulane professors give their own lectures), house Tulane faculty in Berkeley faculty's guestrooms with views of San Francisco Bay. The only serious hard, binding constraint I've heard is lab space for basic science courses, which is already stretched near to if not to the max.

Comments

[jerry]

Can LBL help out? And what is the current status of the former Naval and Army Bases on Alameda? Can that be used for housing or classrooms?

(A la me da where the nuclear wessel is)

[CalDem]

Why not do this system wide? Berkeley is already at capacity, but I believe UC Riverside (my campus) has some space, and Davis might as well. If you did it systemwide then you could figure out a centralized way to disperse the students, do tuition breaks, etc,., and also hadle transcripts and such when they return to their university. UC system should step up to the plate.

[save_the_rustbelt]

The Jesuit Universities are tyring to figure out how to help Loyola and Xavier (La), and I hear other universities are going to allow late admissions for a semester for local students fleeing N.O., and then facilitate transfer credit.

Go Xavier (Cinci)!!

[Jonathan W. King]

Brad DeLong writes:
>
> There are a couple of signs that California Hall--Berkeley's High
> Administrators--are trying to figure out what fraction of Tulane we could house
> here at U.C. Berkeley for the fall semester...

For what it's worth, the University of MIssouri has opened up enrollment at all four of our campuses to displaced students. I believe the final decision has been made in this case to waive all fees this semester for those students. It's nice to have a deep moment of pride in one's institution.

[dan]

Up here at Tufts we're accepting admission from Tulane students as well. Apparently the American Council on Education is doing a good job placing displaced students in new schools so that they can continue through the fall semester...

[JR]

I understand that Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) is also working with Loyola. I don't know the details on housing, credits, etc.

[Alex Merz]

A letter last night from Mark Emmert, president of the U. of Washington, indicates that we and others are doing the same.

[nate]

http://www.oc.uiuc.edu/announcements/katrina.htm

[save_the_rustbelt]

Any Ohio student who has been displaced can be enrolled at any Ohio public or private school - further assistance is being developed.

[nate]

check out the latin etymology of "alma mater" in the on-line merriam-webster dictionary-

[don majors]

There are many very good Universities in Northeast Ohio (Oberlin, Case/Western Reserve, U of Akron, Kent State, Hiram, Ashland, College of Wooster, John Carrol U., and many more. I would imagine their curriculum would encompass most undergraduate studies. These institutions have class space for adding students provided you have transport and pay the normal costs. I think this should be a routine matter -- just taking in a transferring students.

[christo]

Good one. First constructive step that I have seen.

Still the college students are the lucky ones. Middle class kids and the middle class is coming to help.

This is snarky, where's the network of the poor to help the poor?

[tom]

Both Florida International University (the state school) and U of Miami (the private, football school) are actively accomodating U New Oreans & Tulane students: overriding enrollment caps (not so wise for science lab classes with finite numbers of benches/seats) and helping the displaced students make up the missed first week of the semester.

The public pr announcement competition between FIU & UM started last Tuesday, so the powers that be started thinking about this last Sunday or Monday. In addition to past experience with hurricanes in Miami, the eye of Katarina passed directly over FIU (& the antional hurricane center on campus) as a category 1 storm, and U Miami lost much of their arboretum from a small tornado.

[Parkinson]

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