URI offers emergency admissions to students enrolled in hurricane-affected colleges

[jwgh]

Are other colleges doing this?

http://www.uri.edu/news/releases/?id=3267

Comments

[plorkwort.livejournal.com]

Yes, most of the state university systems afaik; the Texas system at several campus, certainly, and the Indiana and Vermont ones as well . Various Jesuit universities have opened up to Loyola students.

[thesparklychick.livejournal.com]

CCRI and RIC are also doing it. Many schools all over the country are opening their doors, waiving tuition and housing costs and basically doing whatever it takes to make sure these students have a place to continue the educaiton.

I currently work in higher ed, financial aid to be exact, and you wouldn't believe what a logistical nightmare it is to figure out how to get these student's their federal aid, since most of them are enrolling at these new schools as non-degree seeking or non-matriculated, just to get some credits to transfer to their home schools when they re-open. Luckily, the Dept. of Ed. is working hard to come up with some guidelines.

[manfire.livejournal.com]

I saw over on volokh.com about law schools taking in law students from New Orleans schools too.

[penelope-arcade.livejournal.com]

wow, i had no idea RIC was doing this.. that's awesome.

[kerri9494.livejournal.com]

Brown is doing it, too.

[jwgh]

Cool. The letter describing this is at http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2005-06/05-016.html I see.

[elsibeth.livejournal.com]

Yale too, but they haven't worked out the details yet.

[cgoldfish.livejournal.com]

PC is - i just got a letter from them. i guess everyone around has. . .

[restartsmyheart.livejournal.com]

believe it not, brown is too.

Tulane has arrangements

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

with nine associations (http://emergency.tulane.edu/ace.htm) representing hundreds (http://emergency.tulane.edu/) of colleges, including Rice, (http://www.explore.rice.edu/explore/Tulane.asp) which is where I heard about it.