Xavier First HBCU in U.S., First Louisiana University Awarded a Confucius Institute

(New Orleans LA) – Senior Administrators from Xavier University of Louisiana have signed a historic agreement that will make Xavier the first HBCU in the nation and the first university in Louisiana to establish a Confucius Institute (CI). Dr. Loren J. Blanchard, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs led a four-member delegation that consisted of Dr. …

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US News 2009 Leadership Article

NCF Selected Among ‘America’s Best Leaders’

From U.S. News & World Report: As New Orleans’s governmental services collapsed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Norman Francis, president of Xavier University of Louisiana – the ‘Black Notre Dame of the South’ – organized an armada of boats and a convoy of buses to evacuate students and staffers stranded at the flooded campus…

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