Booming at the Capitol

Once upon a time, the Sonic Boom used to line up on the south steps of the State Capitol every year and tell the world "We are the Urban University of Mississippi and Jackson is our town!" 

Aaahhhh, if we could just do it again...!

Down in the Delta Girl at Forest Hill High

My recruit/former student/menetee Kimberly Warfield of South Delta High School is the new principal at Forest Hill High School in South Jackson, Mississippi. 

A little girl growing up in the Mississippi Delta surrounded by cotton fields,shotgun houses, trailer homes, and knee-deep in abject poverty can only dream about heading a school whose mascot was once "The Rebels." 

That is where Jackson State University comes in...transforming dreams into goals, Challenging Minds, Changing Lives. 

This Down in the Delta girl says "Choose Jackson State...I did!"

A true friend indeed

I didn't exactly recruit Amanda Stewart but her folks were looking for the campus and I not only gave them directions but helped them get parked, get admitted and eventually enrolled!

Later, I taught her twice in history, visited her Chicago home, made friends with her lawyer relative in St. Louis, and have been a family friend every since. 

Now that she is gainfully employed in North Carolina, I am her mentor/confidant. That's Jackson State for you, providing long-lasting friendships among students, students and faculty, and students and alumni. 

That's why we are One JSU, Challenging Minds and Changing Lives. I can just hear her saying to any and everyone "Choose Jackson State...I did!"

JSU Magazine is now online or in your mailbox

The Jacksonian - Fall 2012issuu.comAlumni and campus magazine of Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss.

http://issuu.com/jmgcook/docs/fall2012_mag

Jackson State says "You can stay home and still get a degree!"

JSU’s first online degree program enrollment reaches 300 students




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The College of Education and Human Development launched the first online degree program at Jackson State University in 2009 as a collaborative with Education Online Services Corporation.
http://jacksonstate.wordpress.com/2012/08/24/jsus-first-online-degree-program-enrollment-reaches-300-students/

My recruit

My recruit Ashley Nicole White (JSU 2006-10) of Marks Palmer High School earned her masters degree in Health management at Jackson State University on August 3, 2012 and will formally receive her diploma Friday December 7, 2012.

Public Health Dr. Mario Azevedo has issued an APB for her to come back and work on her doctorate! He awaits her return!

 JSU Dean of

 This is yet another example of how JSU will seek and find students committed to excellence! Miss White was valedictorian of her high school class, graduated from JSU with honors in 2010 and with a near 4.0 for the masters.

 Now, that JSU has Challenged her Mind and Changed her Life, the Dean wants her to tell the world "Choose Jackson State, I did!?"

Match made in heaven

In a match made in heaven: Shelita Burns (JSU 2002-2007) became Mrs. Dexter Hall in Jackson Saturday, July 21. The statuesque former Jackson State University Lady Tigers basketball star and SWAC MVP was an ideal student, a role model par excellence, who assuredly will also excel as a wife and perhaps mother. Mr. Hall is a forthright fellow in his own right who is just what the doctor ordered for Shelita. They are as we want to say " a perfect couple." A recent Facebook pos

t in this space alluded to her Shelita stopping by the JSU campus to implore Summer Developmental Program students to first prepare themselves intellectually, socially, and spiritually and then seek a lifetime marriage partner. Such is the perspective of a young woman with a storied basketball resume', a masters degree, a career, and now united in holy matrimony with her soul mate. JSU has done it again: Challenged Minds and Changed Lives! All together now: "Choose Jackson State, I did!