Tulane University history

Subsequently, in 1851, the university established its first academic department.

It reopened again in 1865, but enrollment and funding remained scarce.

In response, through the influence of former Confederate general Randall Lee Gibson, the Louisiana state legislature transferred control of the University of Louisiana to the administrators of the TEF in 1884.

In 1885, the university established its graduate division, later becoming the Graduate School.

In 1894 the College of Technology formed, which would later become the School of Engineering.

During the historic speech, Ford announced that the Vietnam War was "finished as far as America is concerned" one week before the fall of Saigon. It was established in 1912.

In 1914, Tulane established a College of Commerce, the first business school in the South.

In 1925, Tulane established the independent Graduate School.

Educated at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., and at Tulane University, New Orleans, Brooks was a Rhodes scholar (Exeter College, Oxford) before he began teaching at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in 1932.

University College was established in 1942 as Tulane's division of continuing education.

By 1950, the School of Architecture had grown out of Engineering into an independent school.

In 1963, Tulane enrolled its first African-American students.

A detailed account of the history of Tulane University from its founding through 1965 was published by Dyer.

Doctor Elstrott, who eventually became the chairman of the board for Whole Foods, began teaching at Tulane in 1984, the same year that the business school was renamed after renowned New Orleans business leader Alfred B. Freeman.

In 1990, Rhonda Goode-Douglas, alongside other black, female students, founded the first African-American sorority in Tulane's history, AKA Omicron Psi.

The Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship Research (LRI) was founded by Doctor John Elstrott in 1991, through a gift from the Levy-Rosenblum family.

In July 2004, Tulane received two $30-million donations to its endowment, the largest individual or combined gifts in the university's history.

The School of Medicine relocated to Houston, Texas for a year. As a result of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and its damaging effects on New Orleans, most of the university was closed for the second time in its history—the first being during the Civil War.

In May 2006, graduation ceremonies included commencement speakers former Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who commended the students for their desire to return to Tulane and serve New Orleans in its renewal.