The Chronicle: Tulane Students Seek to Save Engineering Programs Slated to Close, With Petition and Pledges
Engineering students at Tulane University are gearing up to save their programs, which were among the academic units that Tulane announced last week would close as the university struggles to recover from Hurricane Katrina. The students have collected more than 2,300 signatures on an online petition and are receiving pledges of $1,000 per year for life from some supporters.
The Save Tulane Engineering organization formed within hours of Tulane’s announcement last Thursday that the university would cut its departments of civil engineering, computer engineering, computer science, electrical engineering, environmental engineering, and mechanical engineering as part of its post-Katrina restructuring plan (The Chronicle, December 9). Within a day the petition had 800 signatures.
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