{"id":2637,"date":"2017-03-07T17:50:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T17:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2017-03-09T14:34:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T14:34:29","slug":"alan-branson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/2017\/03\/07\/alan-branson\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Branson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2015\/04\/Branson_11.jpg\" rel=\"\" target=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1086 alignleft\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2015\/04\/Branson_11.jpg\" title=\"\" width=\"144\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAlan Branson successfully defended his dissertation on &lsquo;Determinants of payday lending and bank branch locations in Mississippi.&rsquo;&nbsp; Dr. Jae-Young Ko served as&nbsp;the committee chair. Branson came to Jackson State University in Fall 2011 determined to earn a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration. On February 28, 2017, this purpose came into focus when he effectively presented his research. He holds a MBA degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.&nbsp; Currently, he is the Chief Operating Officer at the HOPE Credit Union, an entity of Hope Enterprise Corporation where he has been employed since 1994.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWe salute Mr. Branson for his accomplishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Branson successfully defended his dissertation on &lsquo;Determinants of payday lending and bank branch locations in Mississippi.&rsquo;&nbsp; Dr. Jae-Young Ko served as&nbsp;the committee chair. Branson came to Jackson State University in Fall 2011 determined to earn a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration. On February 28, 2017, this purpose came into focus when he effectively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"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":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}