HBCU Mergers and Closures
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Reissued Thursday, January 28, 2010
The Jackson State University
National Alumni Association is categorically against mergers and
closures of any Mississippi institutions of higher learning. For
over 100 years, access to a college education has been the
ladder of upward mobility for most Americans, especially
Mississippians. Not coincidentally, minorities and women in this
state have found a college education to be prerequisite to
upward mobility and access to productive lives. Indeed, African
Americans view college as the pathway from poverty-ridden tax
burdens to productive tax producing citizens. The present
alignment of public universities aids and abets the quest for
parity among races and genders. Instead of reducing or
diminishing access to higher education, efforts ought to be
engaged to enhance access.
We are acutely aware of the
present state of the economy but prevail upon state political
leaders, educational leaders and interested observers to devise
other means of coping with our fiscal dilemma other than merging
or closing our universities.
In alliance with the alumni
associations of Alcorn State University, Mississippi Valley
State University, and Mississippi University for Women, the
Jackson State University National Alumni Association is
irreversibly committed to the continued existence of each
affected university as a unique and autonomous institution to
serve the higher educational, research, and public service needs
of Mississippi, the United States, and the World.
Hilliard L. Lackey
President
Post Office Box 17820
Jackson, MS 39217
601.979.2281
jsunaapresident@yahoo.com
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Meeting Date:
3rd
Sunday of each Month
February 21, 2010
Meeting Time: 3:00 PM
Location:
Andrew and Walter Young Family YMCA
(404)753-4169
2220 Cambellton Road SW, Atlanta, GA 30311
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