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Tag: New Orleans
African-American
CDC Foundation Gives Xavier University of Louisiana Grant to Tackle COVID-19 Transmission
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation is giving Xavier University of Louisiana $420,000 to create strategies to combat disproportionate COVID-19 transmission among African Americans in the New Orleans area, which has had one of the highest rates of mortality from COVID-19 in Louisiana and the U.S. “The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the […]
May 18, 2021
News Roundup
DJ Soul Sister is Teaching at Loyola University New Orleans
Popular music scholar Melissa A. Weber – also known as award-winning performer and broadcaster DJ Soul Sister – has been tapped to teach “History of Urban Music,” a new course offered in Loyola University’s Urban and Electronic Music Production undergraduate degree program. Weber has a 25-year career as a show host and broadcaster for WWOZ-FM, […]
September 10, 2020
Students
Loyola U New Orleans Earns $1.4 Million Federal Grant to Help Low-Income, First-Gen Students
Loyola University New Orleans has earned a nearly $1.4 million TRIO-Student Success Support Services (SSS) grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help provide services for low-income, first-generation and students with disabilities. It is the first time the school has received an SSS grant, which will be awarded over the next five years. According […]
September 2, 2020
African-American
COVID-19 Comes to Campus: What Hurricane Katrina Tells Us About the Current Campus Crisis
We are living in pandemic pandemonium, where panic is the prevailing mode of operation. Every college and university is operating with all hands-on deck, altering their operational norms; the result is that campus employees—academics, practitioners, and leaders—are beyond exhausted. Yet, for those of us who have witnessed campuses in crisis, all of this feels eerily familiar. As two higher education professionals and scholars who worked on the ground through Hurricane Katrina and studied campus crisis response, we are extremely reflective and vigilant about how we move forward in this new reality.
March 25, 2020
Community Colleges
AACC, Other Conferences Cancelled Amid Coronavirus Crisis
Hours after the American Council on Education (ACE) on Monday canceled its annual conference, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and the University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) followed suit canceling or postponing their own annual events in the face of the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
March 10, 2020
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Tania Tetlow: Inspiring Men and Women for Others
NEW ORLEANS – Tania Tetlow is making history with her recent appointment as the first woman and first lay person of Loyola University New Orleans, the private Jesuit University founded in 1904.
July 16, 2018
News Roundup
Study: Post-Katrina Changes Improved New Orleans Schools
NEW ORLEANS — A Tulane University-based research group says New Orleans public schools saw sustained improvement in achievement scores, high school graduation rates and students’ college performance following Hurricane Katrina. The Education Research Alliance for New Orleans study credits reforms implemented during a state takeover of most of the city’s schools with the improvements. Monday’s […]
July 16, 2018
African-American
Xavier University Selects Verret as Next President
Dr. C. Reynold Verret, who is currently the provost and vice president for Academic Affairs at Savannah State University, has been tapped to be the next president of Xavier University in New Orleans.
May 14, 2015
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