A Campus Re-Emerges

Southern U. of New Orleans Finds 'Silver Lining in a Disaster' 1

Jackson Hill for The Chronicle Review

SUNO's education building, which at one point held 10 feet of water, is still unusable and is likely to be demolished.

By Goldie Blumenstyk

New Orleans

Southern University at New Orleans is gradually recreating itself.

Nearly five years after the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina washed over the sloping 22-acre campus of this historically black university, there are still many unsettled questions about how—and even where—it will be fully rebuilt.

Louisiana's difficult financial picture and a series of bureaucratic, political, and educational disagreements over the university's future have complicated the