Inside Higher Ed: Scholars on the road
The house shook a little bit, but Judith Schafer, who teaches history at Tulane University waited it out. She said the storm wasn’t too bad. But then came the news that the electricity could be out for weeks. Schafer only had a week’s worth of gas for the generator. So she and her husband scooped up her 96-year-old mother-in-law and got out of dodge.
Like many faculty members who have been uprooted by Hurricane Katrina and sprinkled across the nation, Schafer headed for another university where she had contacts.
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