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wwalkeri
Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 136
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:38 am Post subject: Newcom Lawyers |
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The Newcomb students and alumni seem to have a lawyer crew working behind the scenes. Do we have something similar. If not WE SHOULD. Does anyone have any suggestion? |
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engineering mom
Joined: 01 Feb 2006 Posts: 6
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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Find out who the attorneys for Newcomb are and contact them. |
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Kadepp
Joined: 20 Feb 2006 Posts: 5 Location: Louisiana
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Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 7:38 pm Post subject: Press Releasse |
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PRESS RELEASE
Press Contact:
Robinne A. Burrell (323) 302-1368
robinneburrellpr@gmail.com
Katrina Aftermath Still Threatens Louisiana Legacy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Los Angeles, CA March 3, 2006 – The unprecedented scale of Hurricane Katrina that affected Tulane University has now created a stormy debate among faculty and alumni with the threat of the permanent dissolution of H. Sophie Newcomb College, Tulane's Liberal Arts College for Women. "Hurricane Sophie" is brewing in New Orleans as alumni and students work to stop the proposed plan of the Tulane Administration to close the college. This proposed move has stirred controversy and outrage among alumni in the south and across the nation.
This week also marks the beginning of National Women's History month and the possibility of losing Newcomb College is quickly becoming a hot topic among women's rights activist groups. Allowing the oldest women's college in the United States to become a casualty of the hurricane aftermath would be an American tragedy not only to the students and alumni that rely on the perpetuity of Newcomb but the faculty. While Newcomb does not presently have a separate faculty from the undergraduate men however, cuts of 160 tenured faculty in the medical, business and engineering schools at Tulane constitute the largest de-tenuring in the history of American higher education. In addition, over 2,000 part-time faculty positions have been eliminated. Newcomb advocates fear that other key features of the college will be lost in the Renewal Plan.
In what administrators call the "Tulane Renewal Plan," Newcomb College would be abolished and the position of Dean eliminated, echoing the earlier move in 1999 to unify Harvard and Radcliffe. However, Jane Knowles, Radcliffe Archivist at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University points out key differences, "Radcliffe never had a separate faculty . . . the hope of the founders was that one day Radcliffe would be absorbed into Harvard and the founding documents are written so that it was absorbed into Harvard easily." In contrast, Newcomb's had a separate faculty until 1987 when the Board decided to merge the faculty only, however, it was agreed that the other indicators of a separate Newcomb college would be maintained. Tulane's Board of Administrators has established a Board Task Force to determine how Newcomb's legacy will be incorporated into the restructured university as they continue to review opinions and petitions from alumni, faculty and the New Orleans community. Skeptics are particularly concerned about how the Board decides to deploy the $45 million Newcomb endowment.
Several groups spearhead the attempt to halt the abolition of H. Sophie Newcomb College. Among them is a 700-member New York City Newcomb Alumni Group – "Newcomb in New York" -- which has presented an alternative plan to the Tulane administration's plan to end Newcomb as a distinct educational entity. The Board Task Force will give a final recommendation to the Tulane Board of Administrators on the President's plan for the Consolidation of Tulane and Newcomb and the Board will make its decision in mid-March.
The H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College at Tulane University was the first degree-granting women's coordinate college in the nation and today a college with its own dean, its own degrees and diploma as well as a sense of community for all women studying the liberal arts and sciences. The Newcomb model was later duplicated in partnerships such as Barnard/Columbia, Brown/Pembroke and Douglass/Rutgers.
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For more information:
Press Contact:
Robinne Burrell (323) 302-1368
Email: robinneburrellpr@gmail.com
Public Relations Committee Chair
Karen Deener Depp (225) 769-4329
kadepp@aol.com |
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