Schools opening up for Katrina Victims

[NebraskaDelt]

I heard today that Nebraska is giving in state tuition rates (pretty cheap) to college student victims of Katrina. I'm sure more colleges will follow suit. Even though school has been in session for 2 weeks, I'm sure the students will be able to catch up. I don't know about the living situation, but I'm sure things will open up and the Greeks will be very kind to the victims.

[Jhawkalum]

Looks like Rice is going to waive tuition for Tulane students:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory...olitan/3333708

So is Syracuse:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wi...gion-apnewyork

And SMU:
http://www.dfw.com/mld/startelegram/...e/12527472.htm

Wow!

[Rudey]

So does every LA student get accepted at those schools? I mean Rice is a pretty solid school.

-Rudey

[Jhawkalum]

No, Rice can't accomodate every student in the Gulf area, but the article explains it best.

Tulane and Rice are both very good schools, I imagine many of the students who enroll at either applied to both.

The problem for many of these students is that their homes have been destroyed and their parents are without shelter -- so I imagine college must unfortunately be put on the back burner for many.

[Quala67]

UVA will allow VIRGINIA RESIDENTS attending UNDERGRADUATE programs in New Orleans to attend classes this semester at UVA.

Prospective students MUST:

1) Contact UVA by TOMORROW, Friday, September 2, by 3 PM.
2) Attend an Orientation at UVA's Newcomb Hall on Sunday, September 4, at 2 pm.
3) Be ready to attend classes IMMEDIATELY, and
4) Must be currently ENROLLED at Tulane or one of a few other unspecified schools.

Transferability of credits to be worked out later, and UVA Admissions believed that students would be required to pay tuition at in-state rates. Other Va. State Schools may follow suit, and may offer alternative payment arrangements, but no additional information is available right now. Contact other state schools to see if similar programs are being instituted. Schools in many other states are making similar arrangements for either their own residents or any enrolled Tulane student.

If you have relatives or know of other Virginia RESIDENT undergrads attending college in New Orleans, you must contact UVA IMMEDIATELY at 434-924-0311, or undergraduateadmission@virginia.edu Students must be ready to begin attending classes NEXT WEEK.

[FloridaTish]

MELBOURNE, FLA. – Florida Institute of Technology President Anthony J. Catanese announced a sweeping program today designed to provide aid and comfort to those most affected by Hurricane Katrina. Catanese, who serves as co-chair of the Florida Campus Compact, said the seven-part program the university is implementing is the result of several days of consultation and planning.

“After Hurricane Katrina had passed, I spoke with a colleague, Dr. Gregory O’Brien, the former chancellor of the University of New Orleans. He knew conditions in the city were going to get worse, and asked at that time for us to consider ways to help,” said Catanese. “Later, in consultation with Congressman Dave Weldon, we began work on the program that we’re pleased to announce today.”

The plan is as follows:

1) Florida Tech will extend its enrollment period to allow students from Brevard County that attend universities in the affected area, including, but not limited to, Tulane, Loyola, Xavier, Southern, Dillard and UNO, to attend classes at the Melbourne campus. Florida Tech will waive tuition for these students for the fall semester. Students interested in taking advantage of this enrollment option should contact the university’s registrar’s office at 674-7400. Further, members of faculty and staff will open their homes to students who need a place to stay. Those interested may contact Dr. Terry Oswalt, Vice Provost for Research, at 674-7325. Florida Tech students from the affected areas will be helped on a case-by-case basis.

2) Florida Tech will offer its research facilities to faculty from affected universities in areas who have critical needs. Interested faculty may contact Oswalt to learn more.

3) The Florida Tech Student Government Association, working with Florida Campus Compact, will undertake a major fundraising effort for the Red Cross and Salvation Army.

4) The Florida Tech Alumni Association will undertake a fundraising effort

to match, dollar for dollar, the funds raised by the Student Government Association.

5) Under the direction of Athletics Director Bill Jurgens, Florida Tech student athletes will assist in emergency relief when local, state and federal government officials deem such relief appropriate and timely.

6) During fall break and between semesters, if appropriate, our students will organize several relief efforts for the affected regions in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

7) Florida Tech’s radio station, WFIT, will provide a public service by broadcasting information on when, how and where to give donations for hurricane relief efforts.

“Florida Tech’s faculty, staff and students know first-hand the devastating effects wrought by hurricanes,” said Catanese. “We hope, in this way, to let our gulf state neighbors and colleagues know that they do not stand alone.”

[Jhawkalum]

Although it's a long way from the Gulf, it sounds like the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities is allowing Gulf Coast students to enroll if they contact the University by tomorrow (you'd think they could extend the deadline a little more), but they've already got some people contacting them.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5591498.html

I just wonder, how are these students going to know about these opportunities if they don't have the Internet, will it be purely word-of-mouth?

[KSUViolet06]

This is AMAZING. Many states higher education budgets are being cut. For these schools to say, "Come here for free" is an amazing gesture of human kindness.

[Tom Earp]

Bless FIT. Yepper, I really have a cloeness to them and the LXA Chapter there!!!!!

Many of the Schools in the Metro Area are also extending courtesy to those Students.

Great for Higher Education coming to the fore front instead of gouging people!

UMKC, Un. Mo, Un. Ks., Ks. St. U., Rockhurst U.

Glad to Hear about others stepping up to the plate to Help out.

God what a tramatic experience for these kids.

Remember, many of them will also be Greeks!

[ASUADPi]

Arizona State is doing the same....

ASU opens doors to Gulf Coast college students affected by Hurricane Katrina

This fall semester, ASU is accepting college students who’ve been shut out of Gulf Coast universities by Hurricane Katrina.

Those students will have access to individual courses, as well as full academic programs.

ASU President Michael Crow has asked his staff to do everything possible to accommodate the affected students and “walk them through” the enrollment process, including admissions, advising and registration.

“We have an unprecedented opportunity to reach out to those whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina,” Crow says. “We can give students whose lives have been thrown into turmoil a place to live and the opportunity to continue their education. I have asked the entire ASU community to make them welcome and to assist them in every way possible.”

Staff members will be available to provide personal assistance in other offices, too, including Student Financial Assistance, Residential Life, Parking and Transit, the ASU Bookstore, and Counseling and Consultation, among others.

To ensure that these students receive complete, accurate information – and to ensure that they move through the enrollment process and join their classes as quickly as possible – the students and/or their parents should contact the University Registrar’s Office at (480) 965-7302.

[TSteven]

UK to Admit Students Displaced by Hurricane Katrina
Written by: Ralph Derickson

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 1, 2005) – The University of Kentucky acted on several fronts today to offer assistance to persons impacted by Hurricane Katrina including working to admit more than a dozen students whose schools are closed for the foreseeable future.

The refugee students – eight from Tulane University, four from Loyola University both in Louisiana and others from the hurricane-impacted area – will be enrolled at UK and will be offered on-campus housing and additional aid, said Philipp Kraemer, associate provost for undergraduate education.

Kraemer said UK will place temporary waivers on the tuition, fees, housing and dining accounts of the displaced students to facilitate enrollment. Steven Hoch, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, where most of the students will be studying, planned to give each of the students a memorandum advising faculty and administrators of the student’s status to further speed their admission.

The students also will be given special assistance in working their way through their other financial needs. Clay Sturgeon, of the Housing Department, said the students who need on-campus housing will be interspersed throughout the residence halls.

Michelle Garth, in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions, said the office anticipates even more displaced students will seek late enrollment at UK as the word spreads about the university opening its doors to the refugee students. Students who need further information about this special enrollment situation may call Garth at (859) 257-3979.

In other action at UK:

UK President Lee T. Todd Jr. sent an e-mail to UK students whose hometowns are in the hurricane-stricken region of the country, pledging the university’s services and resources to them in the trying days and weeks to come.

“Do not hesitate to contact your advisor or discuss your situation with a faculty or staff member,” Todd advised. “We are all here to help. You are now part of the University of Kentucky Family and we pledge to do all we can to assist you,” the president added.

The president’s e-mail encouraged students who feel they need individual or group counseling to contact the University’s Counseling and Testing Center in Frazee Hall (telephone (859) 257-8701).

University Hospital and the Veterans Hospital -- among 15 Central Kentucky hospitals including six in Lexington which are part of the National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) -- were alerted to anticipate activation of the NDMS by the Department of Homeland Security.

No patients from the hurricane affected area had been received at UK HealthCare’s Chandler Medical Center as of early this afternoon. The NDMS procedure, when activated, provides that hurricane victims from Louisiana and Mississippi will be flown to Lexington Bluegrass Airport then transported by ambulance to area hospitals, including the University and Veterans hospitals.

The UK Athletics Department announced that student-athletes and American Red Cross volunteers will be collecting donations for the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund at Sunday’s football game between UK and the University of Louisville.

Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart said teams of volunteers clad in American Red Cross apparel will begin collecting cash at each gate of Commonwealth Stadium beginning at 1:30 p.m. Sunday.

“We’re very concerned about those affected by Hurricane Katrina,” Barnhardt said. “So many people here have relatives or friends in that area and this is away for us to reach out and help.”

The UK Alumni Association also announced it will donate the proceeds of its annual Big Blue Tailgate Tent event to be held prior to the UK-UofL game to the American Red Cross. The tent is located between Bluegrass Community and Technical College (formerly Lexington Community College) and the ticket will-call booth. Admission is $5 for UK Alumni Association members and $10 for non-members. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m.

For more information about the Alumni Association event, visit www.ukalumni.net or call (859) 257-8905.

©2004-2005 by the University of Kentucky

[Sister Havana]

Indiana University-Bloomington and IUPUI are also opening their doors to students in the affected areas. At least 12 freshmen from Tulane have enrolled at IU and will be moving into the dorms this weekend, more will probably follow.

Source

Yay for my alma mater!

[gpb1874]

so is Southern Methodist Univeristy (Dallas) and Baylor (Waco)

also....University of Denver, University of Tulsa, all state colleges in Rhode Island and Washburn university.

[PSUSigKap]

I received this email from the Penn State Newswire last night:

1. PENN STATE READY TO ASSIST VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA
Although a thousand miles away from the heart of the Hurricane
Katrina disaster, members of the large international Penn State
family are very much involved.

University officials have identified more than 60 students known to have hometowns in the most affected states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The majority of those students are enrolled at the University Park campus, with some studying at Penn State Harrisburg or in the College of Medicine at Penn State's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

Staff in Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) and in Student Affairs at University Park have been offering their services to students from the areas hurt most by the disaster and to other students who seek help. Students needing assistance can contact CAPS at 814-863-0395.

Faculty and staff impacted by the disaster are reminded they can turn to the Employee Assistance Program for counseling. They can be contacted toll free at: 866-749-1735. The EAP web site is:
http://www.achievesolutions.net/pennstate.

Penn State also stands ready to attend to the financial fallout of
this disaster by facilitating emergency aid and loans for students
who have had homes wrecked in the disaster or family members lose jobs.

"We want these students to be able to continue their education
without interruption due to this unforeseen hardship," said Graham Spanier, president of Penn State. "Penn State students from the impacted states who face financial hardships are encouraged to contact the Office of Financial Aid at 814-863-0507."

In addition, Penn State is opening its doors to students who were
enrolled this fall at colleges and universities that are now closed
indefinitely due to flooding or long-term utilities shutdowns on the
Gulf Coast. The University is prepared to quickly welcome them to
appropriate Penn State campus locations so that these students do not fall behind in their studies this semester.

"We have been contacted by a number of students during the past two days who had been accepted at Penn State but instead choose to go to schools in the disaster area, such as Tulane," Spanier said. "We are letting those students know that we have room at some of our 24 locations to help them continue their education until such time as they can resume their studies at their home institutions."

"It is vital that great schools such as Tulane are given the support
they need to re-open their doors," Spanier said.

Beyond students, the University's vast alumni base includes nearly2,000 who are residents of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

To receive disaster-related fact sheets and publications, residents
can contact the Penn State Cooperative Extension office in their
county (look under "County Government" in the phone book or visit the Web at http://www.extension.psu.edu/extmap.html for a list of countyphone numbers and addresses).
Center.

[mu_agd]

Miami University is working to take in students and get them situated in residence halls and classes.