September 23, 2005

Katrina's Toll on Mississippi Colleges Will Approach $700-Million

By SARA HEBEL

Hurricane Katrina will cost Mississippi's public and private colleges at least $673.5-million, according to preliminary estimates provided last week by the Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning, the state's public-university governing board.

Repairing and rebuilding campus facilities will cost about $495-million, with $440.8-million of the damages at public universities, $47.2-million at community colleges, and almost $7-million at private institutions,

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