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Dear friends and colleagues: We have an extraordinary opportunity, unlike any in the long history of Tulane University—the opportunity to use the worst urban disaster in U.S. history as a springboard to propel Tulane University into a position of greater strength and purpose. As many of you know, Tulane suffered more than $600 million in damages from Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee failures of August 2005. Our responsibility was to ensure the university’s survival and its financial viability going forward, and we did that by making some difficult choices and restructuring the university in a way that played on our strengths. Now, it is time to continue our forward momentum. In 2005—a few months before Katrina—we embarked on a major comprehensive campaign called “Promise and Distinction: The Campaign for Tulane.” The words “Promise and Distinction” are even more appropriate for Tulane University now, as we resume our campaign. This website will introduce you to some of our goals, challenges, hopes and dreams as we ask you to help us take advantage of this opportunity to meet those goals and realize those dreams. Your participation and involvement will play a major role in what we are able to achieve. I am excited about the future of Tulane and confident that, together, we will help the university take its place among the truly elite institutions of higher education.
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