UCLA
As all of you know, the tragedy in New Orleans and Mississippi mounts by the moment. I am sure all of you feel, as I do, extraordinarily saddened by what the people in these areas are going through. I am also confident, given the nature of our community, that you all want to know what you can do to help.
One thing that we can do is to help the law students who would be beginning school at Tulane and Loyola in New Orleans. These students face huge personal and professional disruptions. We have just announced that we will accept a limited number of 2L and 3L students from Loyola and Tulane as visiting students at UCLA for the fall semester. We may extend the period of the visit into the spring if requested to do so by the deans of these schools. Since many of these students have already paid tuition and are experiencing extra costs attributable to the disruption, we will waive our tuition and differential fee.
As a community, we will need to step up and help these students. I anticipate that they will begin arriving this weekend. Many will not have housing; some will lack appropriate clothing and none will have notes or materials from the first two weeks of class. In a separate e-mail later today I will provide you with some information for how you can offer assistance if you wish.
UCLA is a special community… we are a group of people who truly care about each other as well as others. I know many of you watching the news can barely endure feelings of impotence as we watch the huge amount of suffering taking place in our country. Over the next few days, I will be discussing with members of the community other things that we can do to make a difference.
Thank you.
Michael H. Schill
Dean and Professor of Law
UCLA School of Law
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90095
(310) 825-8202
(310) 206-7147 (fax)