Just days after Hurricane Katrina deluged the Gulf Coast, NJIT President Robert A. Altenkirch invited students whose colleges were damaged by the hurricane to enroll at NJIT. Now, NJIT has its first student from New Orleans: Sean Kirkland, who would have been a senior at Tulane University, is enrolled at NJIT’s New Jersey School of Architecture. “Everyone at NJIT has been extremely kind and welcoming and I’m really grateful to be studying here,” Kirkland said. >>