JSU Center for University Scholars

The Center's Mission

The Center for University Scholars promotes the thoughtful integration of teaching, learning and scholarship at Jackson State University. For JSU faculty we offer competitive research and instructional innovation grants, travel subsidies for presentation and research, graduate assistantships, professional development workshops and discussion fora.

Oct 9

Deadline for Fall Travel Grant Applications

Online Application...

 

Nov 5

Holden Lecture: Glenn Loury, Ph.D.

10 AM, Room 266 of Liberal Arts Bldg

 

Nov 5-6

University Scholars Symposium

Senate Chamber, Student Center

Glenn Loury, Ph.D.

Glenn Loury, the Merton P. Stolz Professor of the Social Sciences at Brown University, will be the third Holden Lecturer. He is an economist specializing in welfare economics, industrial organization and income distribution and a public intellectual who has been profiled by the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor. Watch and listen to him on Bloggingheads.tv and Bill Moyers' show on PBS (with Orlando Patterson).

Nearly 4,000 volumes were donated to the Center for University Scholars by Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr., the Henry L. and Grace Doherty Professor Emeritus of the University of Virginia, and Mrs. Dorothy Holden. The collection's strengths are in philosophy; public policy especially regulatory policy, administrative law and presidential politics; American history particularly the Atlantic slave trade, the founding and race relations; African-American history, African history and British history. Volumes are available for reading in the room only. The Holden Reading Room has a large multimedia monitor, computer, DVD/VCR and Elmo projector to facilitate presentations or slide shows. It may be reserved for meetings, seminars and roundtables. Contact us at 601 979-6949.

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