No Merger for Southern University of New Orleans

Republican legislators in Louisiana have pulled legislation that would have merged historically black Southern University of New Orleans with the predominantly white University of New Orleans. The legislation was taken off the table when the GOP House leadership realized they could not muster enough votes to assemble the required two-thirds majority. Black leaders in the legislature and officials at Southern University of New Orleans expressed relief that the historically black educational institution has survived a challenge to its existence.

Copyright © 2011. The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education. All rights reserved.