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
JSU National Alumni Association, Inc.
2010 Mid-Winter Alumni Council/Board Meeting
February 26-27, 2010
JSU Main Campus
Contact: Gwen Caples for more information
601.979.2281
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