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by ponyplayer » Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:17 pm
For anyone interested in Tulane, if you go to their website they have voted to keep Div 1 status but will drop several programs..........
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by ponyplayer » Thu Dec 08, 2005 2:35 pm
PonyPride wrote:Which sports are being dropped?
women`s soccer, swimming and diving, men` and women`s tennis, men and women`s golf...........
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by davidsmu94 » Thu Dec 08, 2005 3:10 pm
That's odd. I seem to remember that last year they added their men's track team back due to many factors including the need to have the mininum number of sports offered to compete at the D1 level. The article I read, said that the addition of men's track brought them up to the minimum.
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by DiamondM75 » Thu Dec 08, 2005 3:24 pm
I wonder if the NCAA has provided a temporary waiver of minimum sports, due to the current financial position of the school.
Just send 'da money.
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by LawSchoolPony » Thu Dec 08, 2005 8:30 pm
From Tulane's website:
Tulane will continue to participate in Division I intercollegiate athletics, but with a reduced number of programs. Green Wave athletics will sponsor six programs that will compete in eight sports—football, baseball, men and women's basketball, volleyball, and women's indoor and outdoor track and cross country. The NCAA president and staff have assured the university that it will be able to secure the waivers needed to continue to compete as a Division I program.
Tulane will continue to participate in Division I intercollegiate athletics, but with a reduced number of programs. Green Wave athletics will sponsor six programs that will compete in eight sports—football, baseball, men and women's basketball, volleyball, and women's indoor and outdoor track and cross country. The NCAA president and staff have assured the university that it will be able to secure the waivers needed to continue to compete as a Division I program.
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by Cheesesteak » Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:44 pm
Tulane Laying Off 230 Faculty Members
By CHEVEL JOHNSON
The Associated Press l The Washington Post
Thursday, December 8, 2005; 6:06 PM
NEW ORLEANS -- Staggered by Hurricane Katrina, Tulane University announced Thursday that it is laying off about 230 faculty members, dropping some sports and eliminating several undergraduate programs, including electrical engineering and computer science.
"This is the most significant reinvention of a university in the United States in over a century," declared Scott Cowen, the university's president.
The campus in the city's Uptown section has been closed since Katrina's floodwaters devastated New Orleans and drove out most of its half-million inhabitants. About two-thirds of Tulane's facilities flooded, including dormitories, and most of the students are now scattered at schools around the country.
The private university plans to resume classes in mid-January, though it expects a costly one-third drop in enrollment. Tuition accounts for 35 percent of Tulane's revenue.
Before the storm struck on Aug. 29, Tulane had about 2,500 faculty members and 13,200 students and an annual budget of $593 million. The university put the cost of recovering from the storm at at least $200 million.
Tulane said it will eliminate about 180 faculty positions at its medical school and about 50 at its other graduate schools and its undergraduate program.
"I deeply regret that employee reductions were necessary to secure the university's future," Cowen said. "We have tried to make the reductions as strategically and humanely as possible, recognizing the hardship it places on those whose positions have been terminated."
Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education, said Tulane's plan is unprecedented in its scope and speed. "I have thought long and hard to see if I could identify a comparable change at another university in the last century, and I can't," Hartle said.
The university said it will continue to participate in such NCAA Division 1 sports as football, baseball and men and women's basketball. But it eliminated men's track, men and women's tennis, men and women's golf, women's swimming, women's soccer and men's cross-country.
The university also said that it will concentrate on areas where it can excel. Five undergraduate programs _ civil and environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, computer engineering and exercise and sports science _ will be eliminated.
Incoming students will be housed on a cruise ship in the Mississippi River. Apartments in New Orleans are hard to find because of the widespread flood damage.
Under the plan, the university will establish a new undergraduate college. All incoming students, regardless of their field of interest, will enter through the college. In addition, students entering next fall and after will be required to participate in community service work and help to rebuild New Orleans.
Including Tulane's losses, colleges and universities in the city sustained an estimated $1.5 billion in damage from Katrina.
Loyola University of New Orleans announced 28 layoffs, none among tenured faculty. Dillard University, which sustained an estimated $350 million in damage, has laid off two-thirds of its faculty, at least temporarily.
On Wednesday, former Presidents Bush and Clinton, who have raised about $110 million for Katrina victims, announced $30 million in grants for higher education institutions, including Tulane and 13 other colleges and universities. The money will go toward such things as repairs and reconstruction, as well as salaries.
Over the past three months, Tulane's football team has been playing all its games in borrowed stadiums. The medical school has been operating out of four Texas universities.
By CHEVEL JOHNSON
The Associated Press l The Washington Post
Thursday, December 8, 2005; 6:06 PM
NEW ORLEANS -- Staggered by Hurricane Katrina, Tulane University announced Thursday that it is laying off about 230 faculty members, dropping some sports and eliminating several undergraduate programs, including electrical engineering and computer science.
"This is the most significant reinvention of a university in the United States in over a century," declared Scott Cowen, the university's president.
The campus in the city's Uptown section has been closed since Katrina's floodwaters devastated New Orleans and drove out most of its half-million inhabitants. About two-thirds of Tulane's facilities flooded, including dormitories, and most of the students are now scattered at schools around the country.
The private university plans to resume classes in mid-January, though it expects a costly one-third drop in enrollment. Tuition accounts for 35 percent of Tulane's revenue.
Before the storm struck on Aug. 29, Tulane had about 2,500 faculty members and 13,200 students and an annual budget of $593 million. The university put the cost of recovering from the storm at at least $200 million.
Tulane said it will eliminate about 180 faculty positions at its medical school and about 50 at its other graduate schools and its undergraduate program.
"I deeply regret that employee reductions were necessary to secure the university's future," Cowen said. "We have tried to make the reductions as strategically and humanely as possible, recognizing the hardship it places on those whose positions have been terminated."
Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education, said Tulane's plan is unprecedented in its scope and speed. "I have thought long and hard to see if I could identify a comparable change at another university in the last century, and I can't," Hartle said.
The university said it will continue to participate in such NCAA Division 1 sports as football, baseball and men and women's basketball. But it eliminated men's track, men and women's tennis, men and women's golf, women's swimming, women's soccer and men's cross-country.
The university also said that it will concentrate on areas where it can excel. Five undergraduate programs _ civil and environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, computer engineering and exercise and sports science _ will be eliminated.
Incoming students will be housed on a cruise ship in the Mississippi River. Apartments in New Orleans are hard to find because of the widespread flood damage.
Under the plan, the university will establish a new undergraduate college. All incoming students, regardless of their field of interest, will enter through the college. In addition, students entering next fall and after will be required to participate in community service work and help to rebuild New Orleans.
Including Tulane's losses, colleges and universities in the city sustained an estimated $1.5 billion in damage from Katrina.
Loyola University of New Orleans announced 28 layoffs, none among tenured faculty. Dillard University, which sustained an estimated $350 million in damage, has laid off two-thirds of its faculty, at least temporarily.
On Wednesday, former Presidents Bush and Clinton, who have raised about $110 million for Katrina victims, announced $30 million in grants for higher education institutions, including Tulane and 13 other colleges and universities. The money will go toward such things as repairs and reconstruction, as well as salaries.
Over the past three months, Tulane's football team has been playing all its games in borrowed stadiums. The medical school has been operating out of four Texas universities.
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