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JSU Alumni Official Position on

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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3rd Sunday of each Month
February 21, 2010

Meeting Time: 3:00 PM

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(404)753-4169

2220 Cambellton Road SW, Atlanta, GA 30311

 

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