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Plan signals that Governor Bobby Jindal is leaning toward fusing SUNO, UNO

Plan signals that Governor Bobby Jindal is leaning toward fusing SUNO, UNO
Posted By: Stacie Coulter on April 13, 2011

By Jan Moller:

Gov. Bobby Jindal is considering a college consolidation plan that would effectively close the University of New Orleans and the Southern University at New Orleans and replace them with a "new, single accredited institution" consisting of two separate colleges.




View full sizeThe Times-Picayune archiveThe plan, outlined in a PowerPoint presentation obtained by The Times-Picayune that has circulated among higher education leaders, also would strip SUNO of its status as a historically black institution, a designation that brings with it millions of dollars in federal money each year.


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