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 NEW ORLEANS (AP) - 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.
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