<p>CNN's website reports that NYU refuses to accomodate displaced Tulane students affected by Katrina. "No exceptions".
Hey NYU-its called sacrifice. Is it really that much of a problem for the school to temporarily admit a few students from the NY metropolitan area. Numerous schools around the country are reaching out to help. Good schools. Rice, Bates, Georgia etc. But Wash. Sq. has no room at the Inn.
I'm severely disappointed in that institution.</p>
<p>its about the money i guess.</p>
<p>Wow, bad press. That's the 1st school I've heard reported of that has refused to accommodate displaced students in any way. I've been impressed that most schools have shown a great attitude & done what they can to accept displaced students, even if most don't have housing.</p>
<p>NYU has not refused to accept students.
NYU states they have classes available in Gallatin, Steinhardt and the Paul McGhee schools. The school cannot offer housing so students who decide to attend, come with the understanding that they will be commuters</p>
<p><a href="http://admissions.nyu.edu/katrina/%5B/url%5D">http://admissions.nyu.edu/katrina/</a></p>
<p>I am surprised by this post. I have a daughter who goes to NYU and I have already seen the emails that offer displaced students a chance to come to NYU and not pay additional tuition. They do not have housing available but that is true of many other school's offers (such as Brown, where my other D goes). The offer is quite similar to elsewhere.....reaching out to students from that particular area (in this case metropolitan NY) and offering them a chance to attend. It is true that they are not opening slots at each of their schools but for instance, there is the General Studies Program which would surely help a freshman take care of distribution type requirements and then there is Gallatin which has individualized study so kids could put together what they needed for this semester. I don't think this thread is an accurate depiction at all. </p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>The post was based on a story on this link:<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/09/01/katrina.colleges.ap/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/09/01/katrina.colleges.ap/index.html</a></p>
<p>"Stephanie Philis of Port Washington, New York, was supposed to be starting her senior year at Tulane but skipped her flight Sunday after hearing about Katrina.</p>
<p>When the extent of the damage became clear, she contacted New York University, where she had taken summer classes, but was told it had no openings -- "no exceptions" is what she was told."</p>
<p>Perhaps the original story was inaccurate or perhaps NYU changed its position in<br>
reaction to the story and its aftermath.</p>
<p>eskimo - That's very interesting. Hopefully, the student was not given the correct information by NYU or the person writing the article made a mistake. On the other hand, I'm not surprised by NYU's answer if that was the case. Initially, when I checked on the NYU website, there wasn't anything posted by President Sexton with regard to allowing students displaced by the hurricane a spot at NYU, and I wasn't surprised by that. They're probably filled to the brim (at least in terms of housing). Also, it's such a huge bureauracy that it's possible that each employee/department doesn't know what the other one is doing, and the person she talked to may have given her misinformation. Again, I wouldn't be surprised by that. In dealing with NYU, you just can't give up pursuing what you want based on one answer. Persistence is key.<br>
Anyway, I'm glad to hear that they're willing to make some accommodations for displaced students, although Columbia and Fordham came forward sooner. Better late than never.</p>
<p>My understanding is that NYU is not accepting matriculating students (students enrolling at NYU for a degree) but that they will accept students into certain programs, tuition free, as visiting students. This is what most of the colleges and universities are doing (visiting students). Perhaps the young lady in the article was asking for admission to NYU as a matriculating student.</p>
<p>I don't understand why this should be an issue. If NYU or any other university had extra space, they would have filled it from their own applicant pool. Yeah, it's nice if they have space and can take some extra people, but why should they be expected to? This is not a life or death issue. A lot of people have lost everything, and the fact that a bunch of private-college students who aren't even from New Orleans have to miss a few months of school just doesn't seem that significant. If NYU has the extra resources and money that people seem to think they have, maybe they should donate to the Red Cross or send volunteers to help those who really need it rather than devote these resources to benefitting more (mostly) fairly rich kids.</p>
<p>Everyone has the capacity to help. If NYU took just one student for the fall term, that would be helping.<br>
And, yes, NYU does have the resources to do this. And, what makes you think that NYU would only be accommodating "rich" kids. Many, many students at Tulane, Xavier, Loyola are certainly not rich by any means.</p>
<p>nyumom.
I agree that it was more a matter of red tape and housing than anything else.</p>
<p>bklynmom - I couldn't agree with you more.</p>
<p>August, the response is symbolic. How many students from the metro NY area do you really think would matriculate, if offered the opportunity. 100? How disruptive would that have been? 2-3 extra students in a class! People are donating to the cause fom all over the country, if not the world. Many who may not be in a position to contribute, still do. Its called sacrifice. I hope that the CNN piece was reported inaccurately, because if it were true, then I think that the NYU administration would have a lot to think about, expecially in light of what happened in NYC only 4 yrs ago.</p>
<p><a href="http://admissions.nyu.edu/katrina/%5B/url%5D">http://admissions.nyu.edu/katrina/</a> NYU's policy on accepting area students is on their home page.</p>
<p>NYU and other institutions of higher learning have reached out to to college students affected by the hurricane disaster. In fact, most of the schools have offered free tuition if they pay the tuition to the home school (Tulane, Loyola, Xavier) "in hopes that they will be able to use the funds to help rehabilitate their campuses and to help offset some of the impact on their employees" The aforementioned quote was from the Dartmouth webpage <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Enews/releases/2005/09/02.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~news/releases/2005/09/02.html</a>. If they offered spots for matriculation, then all hope will be lost for the rebuilding of these fine institutions of higher learning. I applaud NYU and all of the other colleges and universities for their decision. I'm sure President Cowen (Tulane) appreciates the loyalty to his university.</p>
<p>eskimo - I completely agree.</p>
<p>I found an interesting post from Calmom in another CC thread <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=93971&page=7&pp=20%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=93971&page=7&pp=20</a>
The affected universities asked the coaliton to set forth guidelines whereby students would only be admited to host universities on a "visiting" or "provisional" basis. </p>
<p>Cut and pasted from Calmom's post.</p>
<p>Tulane has made the following announcement:</p>
<p>Quote:</p>
<p>Nine of the leading higher education associations, which represent hundreds of colleges and universities around the country, have developed a plan to accept Tulane students, as well as those from other institutions adversely affected by the hurricane, for the fall semester only. This coalition has set forth guidelines for temporary enrollment for the fall semester.</p>
<p>The specific guidelines and the associations are:</p>
<p>Quote:
While their immediate needs include very basic items like phone service, power, and dry office space, each of these presidents is greatly concerned about the long term financial impact Katrina will have on their institution. Specifically, they are urging colleague institutions enrolling their students to do the following:</p>
<p>Admit students only on a visiting or provisional basis, so that they remain students of their home institution;</p>
<p>Do not charge tuition if the student has already paid tuition to the home institution; and if the student has not paid the home institution, charge the home institution's rate of tuition and remit that amount to the home institution;</p>
<p>Certainly other fees, including room and board, would be charged by the host institution as appropriate.</p>
<p>We realize that every institution must decide for itself how to handle this unprecedented influx of student refugees, and that some state laws could make some of these financial arrangements difficult. However we also know as former presidents and chancellors how each of us would feel if put in the same disastrous situation. We urge our member institutions, to the best of their ability and in keeping with state and federal laws, to abide by these principles as they seek to help these students. We hope each of our member institutions will hear the call for help from their Gulf Coast colleagues, and find ways to honor these important financial requests as they continue their unprecedented efforts to help.</p>
<p>George R. Boggs, President and CEO, American Assocition of Community Colleges</p>
<p>Charles L. Currie, S.J., President, Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities</p>
<p>Constantine W. Curris, President, American Association of State Colleges and Universities</p>
<p>Richard Ekman, President, Council of Independent Colleges</p>
<p>Nils Hasselmo, President, Association of American Universities</p>
<p>C. Peter Magrath, President, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges</p>
<p>David Ward, President, American Council on Education</p>
<p>David L. Warren, President, National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities</p>
<p>More info:
<a href="http://emergency.tulane.edu/%5B/url%5D">http://emergency.tulane.edu/</a>
<a href="http://emergency.tulane.edu/ace.htm%5B/url%5D">http://emergency.tulane.edu/ace.htm</a></p>