Scott Cowen
Scott Cowen
Scott S. Cowen was 14th president of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was also Seymour S. Goodman Memorial Professor in the A.B. Freeman School of Business and professor of economics in Tulane's School of Liberal Arts. He has written more than a hundred peer-reviewed journal articles and five books. His most recent book, The Inevitable City: The Resurgence of New Orleans and the Future of Urban America, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014. Cowen is the...
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If you lost an entire year, it would be very difficult to retain students and to retain faculty, ... They, because of the risk associated, would feel like they should transfer somewhere else.
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This is unprecedented in the history of the US, to have had a national disaster of this magnitude with a diaspora of this magnitude.
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It's not only important for Tulane to come back, it's important for the city of New Orleans to come back, ... We don't want to be an oasis in an otherwise desolate land.
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This is a model that is starting to emerge in America, and we could be the first to bless it.
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There's nothing in common about this model and what was in existence pre-Katrina.
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Speed is the most important thing to keep in mind, because we have a city that was decimated,
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One could make a case for all five of those teams matching up with our criteria. The net result, I think, is Conference USA is going to be stronger than it is today in terms of alignment.
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I deeply regret that employee reductions were necessary to secure the university's future. We have tried to make the reductions as strategically and humanely as possible, recognizing the hardship it places on those whose positions have been terminated.