Nadrea R. NjokuAfrican-AmericanCOVID-19 Comes to Campus: What Hurricane Katrina Tells Us About the Current Campus CrisisWe are living in pandemic pandemonium, where panic is the prevailing mode of operation. Every college and university is operating with all hands-on deck, altering their operational norms; the result is that campus employees—academics, practitioners, and leaders—are beyond exhausted. Yet, for those of us who have witnessed campuses in crisis, all of this feels eerily familiar. As two higher education professionals and scholars who worked on the ground through Hurricane Katrina and studied campus crisis response, we are extremely reflective and vigilant about how we move forward in this new reality.March 25, 2020HBCUsLeave Ready, to Pivot: A Researcher’s Reflection on Purpose Beyond the Professoriate“Leave Ready” is a campaign by Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA) for its students centered on the notion of readiness. Signs and graphics, at one point, populated the campus with pictures of students and successful alumni with the slogan “Leave Ready.”June 3, 2019Page 1 of 1
