Upward Bound Awards UNO $5M Grant

The Associated Press — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:21:04 +0000

The University of New Orleans has been awarded grants totaling $5 million over a five-year period by the Upward Bound program through the U. S. Department of Education.

The grants will fund three projects: UNO's Project Pass, UNO's Jefferson Upward Bound and UNO's Classic Upward Bound.

Louisiana Celebrates 200 Years of Statehood

The Associated Press — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:54:27 +0000

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — When officials from the United States arrived in newly acquired Louisiana in 1804 to consider the prospects of the area for statehood, they found a bewildering landscape that could not have been more different from the New England countryside that gave birth to the nation just a few decades earlier.

The federal group found a population made up almost entirely of French-speakers, a third of whom were free people of color.

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Upward Bound Awards UNO $5M Grant

Louisiana Celebrates 200 Years of Statehood