According to the American Council of Education, 175,000 students are enrolled in colleges in the storm-ravaged areas of Southern Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama.
“The devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina have stunned us all,” Kirby wrote in his letter today. “The loss of life, destruction of property, and unimaginably severe conditions that remain in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, are profoundly saddening. Our thoughts, prayers, and sympathies are with all those who have suffered from the storm and its aftermath, and naturally we want to do what we can as a university to help.”
Staff at several of Harvard schools, including the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the GSE, and HBS, are attempting to contact Harvard students who live in the affected areas in order to offer aid and assistance in returning to Cambridge for the fall term.
—Staff writer Joshua P. Rogers can be reached at jprogers@fas.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer Daniel J. T. Schuker can be reached at dschuker@fas.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer Lauren A. E. Schuker can be reached at schuker@fas.harvard.edu.