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Message: <blockquote data-quote="babomb" data-source="post: 2793435" data-attributes="member: 1316">Last week Tulane University announced they're cutting Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Computer Science, ostensibly because of financial trouble caused by Hurricane Katrina. A group of faculty, students, and alumni gathered at the website <a href="http://www.savetulaneengineering.org" target="_blank">http://www.savetulaneengineering.org</a> to try to raise money and find another way to help Tulane's finances. However, when we asked how much money we need to raise, the president of the university said that cutting the programs was both a strategic and financial decision, and that it was final, no matter how much we raised.What angers me more than the programs being cut is the complete lack of transparency or input. He has yet to give any specific figures other than the amount of damage caused by the hurricane. We don't know, for example, how much money cutting these programs is supposed to save.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f621.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":mad:" title="Mad    :mad:"  data-smilie="4"data-shortname=":mad:" /> Fortunately, I'll be able to complete my degree before the programs are phased out completely. The freshmen, sophomores, and some graduate students will have to transfer to another school.Still, New Orleans needs engineers now more than ever.</blockquote>

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