In a story about higher education and the status of local universities, Dillard University reports that classes are in full session now that Hurricane Issac has passed. Communications Director Mona Duffel Jones shares the damage to the university campus.

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Dillard University students who were evacuated from the Gentilly campus, were sent to Centenary College in Shreveport, where they were welcomed with open arms.

Dillard's Jerald Bowman was in awe of the reception they received. He said Centenary’s students were open and receptive to their arrival, even though the Dillard students arrived at the Shreveport university sometime after 2 a.m. Tuesday.

“What was so flabbergasting was the fact that Centenary students were out waving, they had welcome signs, they helped with bags and luggage,” Bowman said. “We’re so receptive and so grateful for it. It’s one thing to say you’re going to do something or act a way, and it’s another thing to show it.”

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Dillard University President Dr. Walter Kimbrough talks about the campus and Hurricane Issac with Inside Higher Education.

Hurricane Isaac has brought powerful winds and many inches of rain to the storm-weary Gulf Coast, leaving hundreds of thousands without power in New Orleans and elsewhere in Louisiana. Among the many people and places that have lost electricity: Dillard University, one of the institutions hardest-hit by Katrina.

Dillard students were sent to Centenary College, in Shreveport, safely out of the way of the storm.

Dillard professor Gary Clark, speaks to the Associated Press regarding gentrification in the city of New Orleans.

"New Orleans is becoming a boutique city like San Francisco," said Gary Clark, a politics professor at Dillard University. "You may see black middle class moving in, but with gentrification there's overwhelmingly white individuals of means who become the new urban pioneers."

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