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Death and Devastation Haunt Haiti's Shattered Universities

Chronicle of Higher Education

January 26, 2010

Throughout Port au Prince, institutions of higher learning collapsed on themselves, burying students and faculty members alike. In addition to the University of Port-au-Prince, various locations of the faculties of the State University of Haiti - the nation's main public university - and a host of other institutions were terribly damaged. One focal point was the University of Port-au-Prince, largely serving the striving lower-middle class, whose members exist one step up the economic ladder from the nation's impoverished majority.

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