Freddye Hill, vice president for campus life and enrollment management, has been on the phone with nervous parents, explaining the university’s evacuation plan and alerting them to Dillard’s decision to postpone the start of the fall semester by one month to avoid the hurricane season.
Hill also tries to get across the renewed energy that has resulted from the hurricane. “We’ve rebuilt,” she says. “Every institution has to respond to challenges. Their responses create change, new energy and renewal. Dillard is going to be a stronger and better institution as we recover from Katrina toward a new Dillard.”
— By Toni Coleman
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