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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While this news is extremely disappointing to all of us, our students can continue their academic careers uninterrupted thanks to an avalanche of support from our colleagues in higher education,
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The new model would fundamentally transform the look and feel of the New Orleans public schools. You hear the phrase, 'No child left behind,' I'd like to give meaning to that.
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We're the single largest private employer (in Orleans Parish), ... What does it say if the single largest employer doesn't get up?
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There's nothing in common about this model and what was in existence pre-Katrina.
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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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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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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 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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Until a commission is sanctioned to sift through all these ideas and coalesce it into a single vision, I don't think people will pay much attention.
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We want our athletes to carry the torch, face, and name of Tulane University during this difficult time.
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We believe that chartering is a very good short-term intervention given our situation, but it's not a long-term solution to running a medium- or large-scale school district.
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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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We will have brought back about 25,000 people to the parish. We have restaurant owners and store owners who every day thank me for us being open because they're seeing their business picking up dramatically.