{"id":5,"date":"2013-04-16T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cubd\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2024-10-03T19:36:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T19:36:25","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cubd\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of the Community Engagement<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Jackson State University (JSU) started the e-City Initiative in 2002 as \u201ca collaborative community development partnership of JSU, the City of Jackson, Jackson Public Schools, West Jackson Community Development Corporation, faith-based organizations, community-based organizations and public and private partners including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fannie Mae Foundation, Allstate Foundation, the Mississippi Technology Alliance and many others.\u201d<\/p>\n

The initiative focused on a 5.4 square mile area around the JSU Main Campus. E-City was to be a holistic approach to community revitalization and economic development by using technology-enhanced learning, targeting technology-based jobs and businesses as well as equipping homeowners with technology equipped homes.<\/p>\n

The following are the five major components that articulated the holistic vision:
\nEducation: JSU has focused expertise on local K-12 and lab schools, raising the level of educational excellence in the community.<\/p>\n

Enterprise: Promoting entrepreneurship and economic development in the community.
\nEnvironment: Focus on zoning, land use, and clean-ups around industrial Brownfield sites.<\/p>\n

Employment: \u201cEach one, teach one\u201d is central to the employment strategy. For example, professors work with young people to refurbish computers in a computer recycling program.<\/p>\n

Exercise: Health and Wellness: Given the great health disparities among people of color, such as increased incidences of high blood pressure and diabetes, JSU has made exercise, health and wellness cornerstones of the e-City initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

History of the Community Engagement Jackson State University (JSU) started the e-City Initiative in 2002 as \u201ca collaborative community development partnership of JSU, the City of Jackson, Jackson Public Schools, West Jackson Community Development Corporation, faith-based organizations, community-based organizations and public and private partners including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Fannie Mae […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cubd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cubd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cubd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cubd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cubd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cubd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cubd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cubd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}