(JACKSON, Miss.) — Jackson State University’s live virtual Fall 2020 Commencement will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 11, and it will bestow 372undergraduate and 175 graduate degrees in a non-traditional ceremony dueto COVID-19. The program won’t include a keynote speaker. Instead, the ceremony will
(JACKSON, Miss.) — Jackson State University doctoral student TyKera“Kera” Marrow has been selected to participate in Health Policy ResearchScholars, a leadership program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation(RWJF). Marrow is the first student from a Mississippi institution to be selectedfor the program. She joins the
(JACKSON, Miss.) — Jackson State University’s fall 2020 enrollment sees only a slight decline since fall 2019. The university’s current preliminary enrollment is 6,921, or a 1.6 percent decline, and represents a difference of 99 students from last year’s preliminary figure of 7,020. Higher education
(JACKSON, Miss.) — Jackson State University announced today that it’s oneof 19 universities to join a three-year institutional change effort todevelop inclusive faculty recruitment, hiring, and retention practices inSTEM. It’s co-partnering with Association of Public and Land-grantUniversities (APLU) in an effort known as Aspire: The
(JACKSON, Miss.) — Seeking greater inclusion and diversity in themilitary, U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy convened Wednesday at JSU withleaders of Historically Black Colleges and Universities and otherinfluencers during a daylong forum and presented a $2.8 million check tobe divided among 26 HBCUs. In May,
(JACKSON, Miss.) — The W.E.B. Du Bois-Maria Luisa Alvarez Harvey HonorsCollege is observing its 40th Anniversary at Jackson State University.Founded in 1980, the honors college has a long history of preparingstudents for success. “What started at a dining room table with ideas and recruiting brochuresfrom
(JACKSON, Miss.) — While few may know Sabrina Howard, many undoubtedly have seen her work. That’s because the artist has collaborated with Jackson State University to produce murals that grace the city. Her murals include the JSU/Blackburn Learning Garden near JSU’s main campus and the
(JACKSON, Miss.) — Dr. Margaret Walker (Alexander), professor emerita at Jackson State University, was inducted into the 2020 Hall of Fame class at the Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience (MAX) Museum in downtown Meridian on Sept. 3. The director of the Margaret Walker Center at
(JACKSON, Miss.) — Dr. Robert Luckett, director of the Margaret Walker Center, will participate in an “Equality, Identity and Hope: Race in America” panel hosted by Comcast Newsmakers | Voices of the Civil Rights Movement program at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 9. The panel discussion will
(JACKSON, Miss.) — Lance Wheeler, education and public relations manager for the Margaret Walker Center, will appear as a panelist for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s discussion, “The Power of Place: Legacy & Impact of Colonization and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade,” on Aug. 25. The four-person
