Southern University at New Orleans

and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the university was able to open a temporary facility, called the North Campus (later to be named the Lake Campus) on February 14, 2006. Until January 2008, SUNO operated completely out of the trailers.
Not only was there physical damage done to the university, but its academics had also been threatened. Twenty of the university's programs were stripped due to the loss of students and faculty. Prior to Katrina SUNO's enrollment exceeded 3,600 students but it was projected that the enrollment would dip to as few as 1,200 students. To the surprise of many, SUNO's enrollment regained more than 2,000 including online students when the university returned to grounds near the Park Campus in the spring of 2006.
By request of the Louisiana Board of Regents, the university added undergraduate degrees in Public Administration, Health Information Systems and Child Development & Family Studies. The university also converted several previously administered undergraduate degrees into …