Hits close to home - Delgado Community College

If you have read about New Orleans college comebacks post-Katrina and haven't read this article from the Chronicle on Delgado, you need to. How that school is serving its community and could be serving even more is fascinating.

Check this out --

Enrollment Changes After Hurricane Katrina

Four years after Hurricane Katrina, universities in New Orleans are still struggling to gain back their pre-storm enrollment numbers. Three of the colleges listed below have recovered better than the others, experiencing significant increases in their undergraduate enrollments since 2006, the year after the hurricane. But not one of the six has matched its pre-Katrina level.

	2006	2009	% change
Southern University at New Orleans	1,709	2,740	+60.3%
Xavier University of Louisiana	2,272	2,666	+17.3%
Tulane University	6,533	7,210	+10.4%
Loyola University New Orleans	3,034	2,913	–4.0%
University of New Orleans	9,156	8,746	–4.5%
Dillard University	1,124	1,011	–10.1%
SOURCE: Brookings Institution; Chronicle reporting

Oh and did I mention who I'm rooting for on Sunday? WHO DAT!