The Department of Education awarded $13 million to New Orleans based universities and nonprofits in hopes of recruiting, educating and employing nearly 900 culturally competent teachers by 2020. Xavier...
Walking into a lecture hall, you expect to see professors leading discussion from the front of the room with students seated in the back, but that's not always the case in the environmental studies department.On...
Freret Street has changed a lot in recent years as local shops have been forced out in favor of bigger chains, leaving many residents like Monwell Frazier upset about the switch.Frazier, a Loyola alumnus...
The New Orleans Police Department has a warning for Uptown residents: make sure your vehicles are secure.The department has issued warnings after a recent rise in car thefts and vehicle break-ins in the...
Commuters who decide to bicycle to Loyola face a number of hazards, according to community members who attended the Fair Share vs. Lion's Share meeting in Nunemaker Auditorium.The purpose of the event,...
New records were broken this year as Vietnamese student associations from all over the Gulf Coast gathered for their annual Date Auction.
With more than 600 people in attendance at Tulane’s McAlister...
Lower prison populations may be coming for Louisiana as criminal justice reforms went into effect on Nov. 1.The overhaul, comprised of 10 bills, passed through state legislature this past June. The bills,...
Louisiana is the most incarcerated state in the most incarcerated country in the world. At 776 per 100,000 people incarcerated, Louisiana sits well ahead of the rest of the United States.
Under the...
Polls open at 7 a.m. next Saturday (Nov. 18) for New Orleans voters to decide who will lead their city for the next four years. One thing is for sure – that next leader will be a woman.
The two vying...
The city of New Orleans is on a grim streak. The first of October marked the 46th consecutive year with over 120 homicides in the city. Only two other American cities with populations under a million can...
It has been 17 years since New Orleans native Charles Gillam founded the Folk Art Zone & Blues Museum, which continues to be an integral part of the artistic community in Algiers Point. The museum,...
Loyola’s sustainability initiative in 2012, intended to implement water refill stations around campus, has eliminated waste from just over three quarters of a million disposable water bottles as of this...
