{"id":2951,"date":"2018-08-03T15:41:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2018-08-04T14:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T14:02:34","slug":"ms-cassandra-hawkins-will-be-professor-at-mississippi-valley-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/2018\/08\/03\/ms-cassandra-hawkins-will-be-professor-at-mississippi-valley-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Ms. Cassandra Hawkins will be professor at Mississippi Valley State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2014\/11\/201401119_Hawkins-9092_resized_crop.jpg\" rel=\"\" target=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-812 alignleft\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2014\/11\/201401119_Hawkins-9092_resized_crop-300x231.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2014\/11\/201401119_Hawkins-9092_resized_crop-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2014\/11\/201401119_Hawkins-9092_resized_crop.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Ms. Cassandra Hawkins,<\/strong> a doctoral student at the dept of public policy &amp; administration, has received a job offer of professorship, and will start her new job at the <strong>Mississippi Valley State University<\/strong> this fall.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHer new job is a <strong>tenure-track assistant professor<\/strong>&nbsp;in rural public policy at the Dept. of Social Sciences. She will be mainly involved in its MPA (Master of Public Administration) program as the program director.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis summer she has defended her dissertation (title:&nbsp;&#039;The Prevalence of Food Insecurity in Mississippi&#039;; <strong>Adviser: Prof. Jae-Young Ko<\/strong>)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tColleges and universities have been reducing&nbsp;tenure-track faculty positions and increasing&nbsp;the portion of adjunct faculty, due to financial problems in higher education institutions across the nation. After considering the difficult challenge, it is a great achievement for her to land a tenure-track job at State university.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCongratulations, <strong>Professor Hawkins<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Cassandra Hawkins, a doctoral student at the dept of public policy &amp; administration, has received a job offer of professorship, and will start her new job at the Mississippi Valley State University this fall. Her new job is a tenure-track assistant professor&nbsp;in rural public policy at the Dept. of Social Sciences. She will be [&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":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951"}],"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=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}