Dr. LaShanda Jordan, executive director of the Career Services Center has been accepted to the Class of 2020-21 Jackson Workforce Leadership Academy. The Jackson Workforce Leadership Academy is a leadership fellowship for workforce development professionals. The Academy is a partnership between the City of Jackson and the Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program with support from the...Read More

The White House announced that Dr. William E. McHenry, a professor of chemistry at Jackson State University, has been awarded a 2020 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) for his pioneering work on broadening participation of individuals from underrepresented groups in the sciences. McHenry, who serves as executive director of...Read More

The Office of Student Success has been awarded more than 2.6 million over a five-year period. Funding will be used to implement two TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) Programs from the United States Department of Education. “One of the responsibilities given to me in this role was to increase the TRIO programs at JSU as...Read More

Dr. Isiah Marshall Jr., associate dean and professor for the School of Social Work has been named as a member of CSWE’s Commission on Accreditation. Effective July 1, Marshall will serve a three-year term ending in 2023. “I am very excited to start as a commission, especially as we deal with the challenges due to...Read More

RTS & MEDIA · COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS · COMMUNITY · FACULTY STAFF NEWS 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. 11 and Aug. 25. The four-person panel discussion,...Read More

ALUMNI · COLLEGE OF BUSINESS · COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS · COMMUNITY · SAMBLA ·  STUDENTS Acting president Thomas Hudson accepts a $25,000 pledge from retired JSU professor Dr. Rhonda Fulgham. Fulgham spent 30 years at the university teaching economics. (Photo by Rachel James-Terry/JSU) Thomas Hudson, acting president of JSU, accepted a $25,000 pledge from Dr. Rhonda Fulgham, on Friday, establishing the...Read More

ALUMNI · GIFTS AND GRANTS · JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY · STUDENTS (Charles A. Smith/University Communications) Pictured from left to right, Debra McGee, chair of JSUDF Board and Jerome Tinker, director of JSUDF Board. The JSU Development Foundation, Inc., donated $17,000 for the Terry L. Woodward Endowed Scholarship, but after a dollar-for-dollar match by the University’s Title III program, the total amount...Read More