{"id":1402,"date":"2014-10-14T18:27:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T18:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2014-10-14T18:27:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T18:27:24","slug":"congratulations-dr-james-t-minor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/2014\/10\/14\/congratulations-dr-james-t-minor\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Dr. James T. Minor!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2014\/10\/James-T.-Minor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"James T. Minor\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1403\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/files\/2014\/10\/James-T.-Minor.jpg\" width=\"141\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<font color=\"#000000\">Jackson State University alumnus Dr. James T. Minor has advanced to a top U.S. Department of Education post in Washington, D.C., as deputy assistant secretary for higher education programs.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<font color=\"#000000\">Minor, 40, JSU Class of &rsquo;96, had previously served as senior program officer and director of higher education programs for the Southern Education Foundation in Atlanta, Ga.&nbsp;<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<font color=\"#000000\">He said he&rsquo;s &ldquo;excited&rdquo; about the new post, which provides overall leadership and administration of grants for institutions and other federal programs that promote equal access to &mdash; and excellence in &mdash; postsecondary education.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<font color=\"#000000\">&ldquo;One of the things I&rsquo;m most excited about in assuming this post is I believe the leadership exhibited by this administration is unprecedented,&rdquo; he said of the Barack Obama administration. &ldquo;I absolutely think it&rsquo;s unprecedented as far as access, affordability and degree completion in post secondary education.&rdquo;<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<font color=\"#000000\">Minor grew up in Detroit but came South for higher education at Jackson State, mainly due to affordability. But he said it left a lasting impact on him.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<font color=\"#000000\">Particularly, he said, he is grateful for &ldquo;the leadership development and opportunities at Jackson State,&rdquo; and &ldquo;the experience of students from different backgrounds &mdash; many of them the first to attend college.&rdquo;<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<font color=\"#000000\">Those JSU experiences have stayed with him, he said, since these are the students he is trying to reach in his new job: those coming to a college or university for the first time, often from a diverse and perhaps disadvantaged background. Outreach to such students and ensuring they receive a quality education is essential, he believes.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<font color=\"#000000\">Minor received his Bachelor of Science degree at JSU in sociology, a master&rsquo;s degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and his Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<font color=\"#000000\">He was tapped by the Obama administration to fill the post June 2014.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackson State University alumnus Dr. James T. Minor has advanced to a top U.S. Department of Education post in Washington, D.C., as deputy assistant secretary for higher education programs. Minor, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}