{"id":14,"date":"2010-03-15T21:58:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/emfl\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2012-10-01T16:09:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T16:09:52","slug":"pierian-literary-society","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/undergraduate-programs\/english-undergraduate\/english-honors\/pierian-literary-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierian Literary Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/files\/2010\/03\/plspic.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/files\/2010\/03\/plspic.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><strong>Statement of Purpose: <\/strong><br \/>\nThe Pierian Literary Society was founded as an organization whose primary goals are to foster advanced learning and critical thinking skills through the exploration, explication, discussion, and evaluation of all genres of literature. It is the foundational principle of the organization that education is power and that power is a medium for positive change in the classroom, the university, the world, and, most importantly, in the reader&#8217;s mind. To create literary activists who question the political, social, economic, and ethical agendas of power structures is the ultimate measurement of success for the organization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Membership Policy:<\/strong><br \/>\nMembership is opened to all currently enrolled students at Jackson State University. The Pierian Literary Society does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, ethnicity, creed, color, religious preference, lifestyle choice, classification, grade point average, or academic discipline.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Events:<\/strong><br \/>\nMonthly meeting and literary discussions on selected works<br \/>\nCampus Poetry Jams<br \/>\nPolitical Forums<br \/>\nHomecoming Court and Street Jam<br \/>\nCommunity Service Projects: Area shelter collections, tutoring, Habitat for Humanity<br \/>\nBlack Writers Conference<br \/>\nSpecial Conference Events<br \/>\nDepartmental Honors and Awards Banquet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement of Purpose: The Pierian Literary Society was founded as an organization whose primary goals are to foster advanced learning and critical thinking skills through the exploration, explication, discussion, and evaluation of all genres of literature. It is the foundational principle of the organization that education is power and that power is a medium for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":315,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1085,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/1085"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}