Katie Nix had her reasons for enrolling at Tulane University last fall. She just can’t recall what they are.
“I’ve forgotten,” said the freshman from Racine who spent three days at Tulane before Hurricane Katrina crashed into New Orleans, forcing the city’s universities to shut down.
After Katrina, Nix and hundreds of other displaced students landed in Wisconsin, where they were taken in by universities across the state. Now their home institutions are reopening, and most of the students are going back.