Southern University at New Orleans, which was devastated four years ago by Hurricane Katrina, received $32 million in grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help rebuild its campus, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported.
The university has managed to regain 85 percent of its pre-Katrina enrollment, and the new grants bring its total federal aid to $92 million. Its 17-acre campus originally held 11 buildings and served 3,600 students. So far the university has partially refurbished six buildings, and broken ground on two more teaching buildings and a residential complex.
