When Universities Are Destroyed: How Tulane University and the University of Alabama Rebuilt After Disaster

Jack Kushner

ISBN 10: 1450211003 / ISBN 13: 9781450211000

Verlag: iUniverse, 2010

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By the time the floodwaters receded in early September of 2005 after the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina, Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, had suffered losses of $650 million. School administrators were faced with the daunting task of rebuilding. Seeking direction, the staff looked to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and its renewal efforts after it was destroyed by fire by Union forces during the Civil War in 1865. In When Universities are Destroyed, author Jack Kushner describes the destruction of each university and compares each institution's efforts to overcome adversity, rebuild, and once again provide education to its students. Kushner details how Tulane University cleaned up from the hurricane, and with the adroit leadership of President Scott Cowen, reopened six months later. This history book also shows how the reconstruction period in the South delayed the rebuilding of the University of Alabama. Examining both the similarities and differences between the two universities, When Universities are Destroyed provides a vivid picture of how Tulane University and the University of Alabama faced the destruction of their campus and found the fortitude to move forward.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Jack Kushner has served on the Tulane Alumni Board of Directors for five years and on the Tulane Associates Board of Directors for the past year. Kushner attended medical school at the Medical College of Alabama and currently lives in Annapolis, Maryland, where he practiced neurosurgery for twenty-five years.

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Titel: When Universities Are Destroyed: How Tulane ...
Verlag: iUniverse
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Paperback / softback
Zustand: New