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