Tulane University - Jambalaya Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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Tulane A University with Tradition Tulane University comprises 11 academic divisions with over 6,500 undergraduates and 3,800 graduate students. The College of Arts and Sciences and Newcomb College are liberal arts colleges for men and women, respectively. Schools of Architecture, Business and Engineering offer both undergraduate and graduate programs. Other divisions include the Graduate School and Schools of Law, IVledicine, Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Social Work and University Colle ge. All divisions except the medical complex, which includes a teaching hospital and clinics, are located on Tulane ' s 110-acre campus in uptown New Orleans. Tulane has a long tradition of leadership in higher education, both regionally and nationally. It was founded in 1834 as the Medical College of Louisiana, the Deep South ' s first medical school. In 1847, when the Medical College merged with the public University of Louisiana in New Orleans, it added law studies, establishing the twelfth oldest law school in the nation, and an academic department for men that today is the College of Arts and Sciences. The Civil War caused the University to close temporarily in the early 1860 ' s, and the war ' s aftermath brought about a series of financial problems. In 1882, a permanent solution was found. Paul Tulane, a New Orleans merchant, set up the Tulane Educational Fund to be administered by a self-perpetuating board. In 1884 the state legislature turned over the property and control of the University of Louisiana to the board and the University, now a private institution, was named The Tulane University of Louisiana in honor of its benefactor. In 1886 Newcomb College was established as a degree-granting women ' s college within Tulane University — the first women ' s college of its l ind in the nation. In 1894 the University moved to its new campus on St. Charles Avenue, five miles from its former site in downtown New Orleans. In the following decades Tulane established several professional schools, including the Deep South ' s first schools of architecture (1907) and social work (1927). The Middle

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V -rvki- American Research Institute, founded at Tulane in 1924, became a pioneer in Central American archaeology and anthropology, excavating and restoring the Mayan village of Dzibilchaltun in the Yucatan. In 1942 Tulane founded University College to provide continuing education for adults in New Orleans. Since World War II Tulane has emphasized the development of graduate studies and research in the Graduate School and in several of the professional schools. The emphasis has both strengthened the undergraduate divisions, which share faculty with the Graduate School, and produced important new knowledge. In 1977, for example. Dr. Andrew Schally of the School of Medicine received the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his research on the endocrine system. The University ' s nine librahes, which hold over 1 .3 million volumes and 12,000 penodicals, include the mam Howard-Tilton Memorial Library with branch collections in architecture and natural history, and separately administered libraries of law, medicine, business, mathematics and primate research. Special collections include the William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive, the Maxwell Music Library, the Southeastern Architectural Archive, the Latin American Library and the Louisiana Collection of historical materials. The juxtapostion of so many disciplines on one campus creates a lively academic atmosphere. Tulane ' s speaker program ' s, film sehes, stage productions, art shows and music programs make the University a major cultural center. At the same time, the relatively small size of the individual schools and colleges preserves an identity and intimacy for their students that is more typical of a small college than a large university.