<p>Tulane President Cowan is being interviewed on the Today Show right now, and the news he's sharing is so good ... he says the campus itself sustained only moderate damage; they will be announcing within 72 hours what the students can do...spend some interim time at the many universities who have announced they'll take students displaced by the storm, or wait for Tulane to start up again...there's still much unknown, but there's real hope for a real school year at Tulane...</p>
<p>In the midst of all the sorrow surrounding New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, this was such good news...</p>
<p>GOod luck to all our CC family connected to New Orleans and Gulf Coast schools, and to those who live in the storm ravaged areas...our hearts and prayers are with you. And I know I speak for many, many CCers when I say if we can help, in any way, just let us know...</p>
<p>Is there a website where we can see some info on this? Sorry, working right now, would have loved to see the show! Anyway, it is great news, and kudos to Scott Cowen.</p>
<p>Don't know if the Today Show's website (<a href="http://www.msnbc.com%5B/url%5D">www.msnbc.com</a> -- then click on Today) will have the interview or followup info or not...but that's the place to check...</p>
<p>It is just uplifting to watch our world respond to the devastation in NOLA and the Gulf Coast...I'm particularly gladdened for the college students affected (obviously, college students in general are near and dear to our collective hearts!)...and good news does seem to filtering through the horror...I just heard from my business partner, whose family lives in NOLA, that both her mother's and her brother's homes may still be standing--wet, but not destroyed...they're still looking at four to six months of "exile"...but it appears they may have homes to return to...my heart is full, between the Tulane news and this news...may the trend continue!</p>
<p>I am willing to take in up to two students who can get Georgetown, AU, GW, Catholic, or the University of Maryland to take them. I will cross-post. </p>
<p>Any ideas on how I can let the N.O. schools know? </p>
<p>I'm betting that the recovery will take longer than they think, and that some parents will not want to send their students back into an environmentally poisoned atmosphere.</p>
<p>yulsie! What a champ!What a magnanimous offer. Here!Here! </p>
<p>I'm sure that you can contact American etc. and let them know. When the N.O. students contact them for enollment they'll have you as a housing option.</p>
<p>JK, Momof - what a generous offer; yulsie, too. And any others I may have missed. We Tulane parents and students have some thinking and planning and logistics to work out in the next few days. It is so helpful to know that institutions and cyberfriends are standing by to help.</p>