Southern University System

SUNO's Park Campus, the first grounds at 6400 Press Drive, was totally bargained as an aftereffect of the levee ruptures brought on by Hurricane Katrina and the tempest surge later created by Hurricane Rita. Surge waters developed to as high as eleven feet in the structures, bringing on the school's physical plant to require substitution. The harm made SUNO complete its fall 2005 semester on its sister grounds in Baton Rouge. Operations and classes were led at Southern University until a brief grounds was gathered at 6801 Press Drive ashore that SUNO claimed however had not used broadly. After transactions with the State of Louisiana, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the U.S. Armed force Corps of Engineers the University could open a makeshift office, called the North Campus (later to be named the Lake Campus) on February 14, 2006. Until January 2008, SUNO worked totally out of the trailers. Not just was there physical harm done to the University, however its scholastics had likewise been debilitated. Twenty of the University's projects were stripped because of the loss of understudies and personnel. Before Katrina SUNO's enlistment surpassed 3,600 understudies however it was anticipated that the enlistment would plunge to as few as 1,200 understudies. To the shock of numerous, SUNO's enlistment recovered more than 2,000 including online understudies when the University came back to grounds close to the Park Campus in the spring of 2006. In response to popular demand of the Louisiana Board of Regents the University included college degrees in Public Administration, Health Information Systems and Child Development and Family Studies. The University additionally changed over a few already directed college degrees into Management Information Systems and Business Entrepreneurship. The University likewise offers a graduate degree in Management Information Systems as a consequence of the change. In the fall of 2008, the Board of Regents endorsed the restoration of college degrees in English, History and Mathematics. The fall of 2008 saw more progressions for SUNO as the understudy populace moved to 3,105 The University possessed a few structures on its Park Campus since Katrina, and started development on the main habitation lobbies ever, which opened in January 2010. Plans for improvement of the Lake Campus pushed ahead with the opening of the Information

Technology Center and development on the College of Business and Public Administration, which will incorporate a $3 million business hatchery. On August 17, 2009, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano declared that FEMA would give more than $32 million in extra subsidizing to modify four instructive structures at SUNO. The cash was set apart for substitution of the University's Old Science, New Science, Multipurpose, and Clark training structures. Altogether, more than $92 million in FEMA open help had been committed for SUNO, including $40 million since March 2009. Past financing had revamped the University's Cafeteria, Health and Physical Education, and Maintenance structures.