Baylor University and Texas A&M University are among the Texas schools making plans to accommodate some of the thousands of Louisiana college and university students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
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Baylor is making arrangements to admit upperclassmen from the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast so they can continue their studies here temporarily. Six students from New Orleans-area schools have already enrolled, the university said late Thursday.
Baylor, however, says it doesn’t have space for additional freshmen.
Baylor’s George W. Truett Seminary has offered to accept students from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary for a semester, and Baylor’s School of Law has offered to work with the Tulane and Loyola University law schools to accommodate students as visiting law students during the recovery.
Texas A&M System Chancellor Dr. Robert McTeer announced Thursday that the nine universities in the A&M system as well as the school’s health science center would be able to accommodate several thousand students from hurricane-affected areas.
“We will do what we can to help these students whose educations have been so tragically interrupted,” McTeer said.
Texas A&M President Robert Gates, meanwhile, said the College Station and Galveston campuses would admit as many as 1,000 students for as long as a year at the minimum tuition allowed by state law.
“I know that the Aggie family will respond with warmth, sympathy and support to those displaced by this disaster, Gates said in a prepared statement.
“A significant number of students from the affected states would clearly have an impact on class sizes and more, but I am confident that faculty and students will make the best of the situation in order to help our neighbors,” he said.
Hundreds of Tulane University students and staff members, meanwhile, have been bused to colleges in Dallas and Atlanta and away from their storm-ravaged New Orleans campus.
More than 100 Tulane University students displaced by Hurricane Katrina arrived at Southern Methodist University in Dallas Wednesday.
The displaced students included the entire Tulane Green Wave football team.
The evacuation started Saturday. Tulane officials have postponed classes until at least late September, but students had begun to arrive on campus.
Students were given the option of seeking their own shelter or taking buses to Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi. About 700 headed to Jackson.
But Monday, Jackson State suffered power outages from the advancing storm, so Tulane officials moved the students to Georgia Tech in Atlanta and SMU in Dallas.
Around 275 students headed to Atlanta and about another 140 went to Dallas.
The football team plans planned to share campus practice facilities with the SMU Mustangs.
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