College Visit: Hurricane Katrina forces Dillard University to lay off 59 percent of its faculty and

As is the case with the rest of Louisiana, poor individuals and minorities were most severely affected by Katrina. Although Louisiana State University (LSU) was forced to lay off up to 5,000 employees at its New Orleans campus, Dillard and comparable institutions, like Southern University of New Orleans, were more harshly affected because they cannot afford to pay for repairs. According to The Chronicle, Dillard’s president, Marvalene Hughes, wrote that the university had investigated all possi