We are still getting thanks and questions for our four speakers:
Shawn Holahan, attorney for Mrs. Newcomb’s heirs, who will tell about taking Howard v. Tulane to the LA Supreme Court;
Linda Carroll, professor of French and Italian, AAUP Conference Secretary;
Jean Danielson, professor emeritus, Political Science; and
Margaret Kelly, alumna and director, The Future of Newcomb College, […]

Update on Howard v. Tulane University
Parma Matthis Howard and Jane Matthis Smith, backed by The Future of Newcomb College (TFoNC) —an organization of donors and supporters dedicated to preserving New Orleans’ historic 120-year-old Newcomb College —announced plans today to ask the Louisiana Supreme Court to hear an appeal in Howard v. Tulane University.  Their […]

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The following newsletter from the president of the American Association of University Professors recalls the events that caused Newcomb to be dissolved and necessitated our work to save the college.
The AAUP investigation, which resulted in Tulane’s censure, focused on the university’s treatment of its faculty. However it was the the same actions by Board […]

TFoNC has in production fun, fashionable and hi –flying articles printed with a new Mignon Faget “Newcomb Lives” design, which includes her signature stylized oak underneath the text.
The articles will be off the production line in time for Homecoming sales and will soon be available online:

**Newcomb Flag: 24”x 36”, Blue background with brown “Newcomb […]