To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff &
           All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Chancellor Herman" <chancellor@uiuc.edu>

Reply-To: chancellor@uiuc.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Hurricane Katrina

We all have seen the suffering and devastation caused by Hurricane 
Katrina, and our hearts go out to the victims and their families.  

The hurricane left thousands of college students without schools and 
homes.  The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of a large 
number of institutions across the nation working to assist these students. 
If you are contacted by a student or parent regarding the possibility of 
late admission because of the hurricane, please suggest that they contact 
the Office of Admissions and Records at 217/333-0302.  For financial aid 
assistance, please refer callers to 217/333-0100.  We are able to 
accommodate up to 40 students and have already received our first one, who 
will be on campus this weekend and will start classes next Tuesday.  For 
students who cannot come to Urbana, but want to continue their studies 
this fall, we are exploring ways to connect them to our Guided Individual 
Study courses.

Additionally, we are working with the Champaign County Red Cross to 
collect donations for all hurricane victims.  You can contribute Saturday, 
September 3rd and September 10th, at Memorial Stadium before the football 
games.  Volunteers also will be on campus Wednesday, September 7th, and 
Thursday, September 9th, at the entrances to the following locations: The 
Quad, the Physical Plant, Grainger Library, Wohler's Hall and the 
Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences Building.

We also are exploring ways to accommodate displaced faculty and graduate 
students, and we are sharing our engineering and planning expertise 
through the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other response 
agencies.

There will be other steps we take as a campus to assist those who so 
desperately need our help, but these are things that we can do 
immediately.  Thank you for your generosity.

Sincerely,

Richard Herman 
Chancellor
This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chancellor

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