Jackson State University News

Sharon Summers, Ridgeland High School's newly named principal, intended to be a doctor, but a funny thing happened on the way to medical school.

Jay Hopson, who grew up in Vicksburg, is named the 18th football coach at historically black Alcorn State University.

A good fit for the leader of Alcorn State University is different than a good fit for Mississippi University for Women, and neither of those would be the same good fit for Jackson State University.

In commemoration of the 42nd anniversary of the Kent State University shootings, College of DuPage officials recently unveiled a memorial created by Chicago artist Richard Rezac.

A man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend, Jackson State University student Latasha Norman, has asked the Mississippi Court of Appeals for a new trial.

The Mississippi Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments Wednesday in the case of a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend, Jackson State University student Latasha Norman.

Debbie Christy, 18, used music to rise past the pain of her mother's death. She is one of five Memphis Beat the Odds Foundation honorees.

Chang Chung-fan, an assistant professor at Jackson State University, won the Best of Show prize with her acrylic and oil painting titled "Han's Land." Chang, who was born in 1984 in Taiwan, studied at Savannah College of Art and Design in the U.S. after graduating from Taipei National University of the Arts.

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'It's been a joy and a privilege working with these outstanding faculty and staff,' said Superinendent Phil Burchfield.

If baseball is a game of inches, you could say Oak Grove was an inch or maybe two better than... It's going to take more than closing a couple hundred rural post offices to fix what's wrong with... College Board member Alan Perry studies the new college tuition increases at the state's eight public universities as Institutions for Higher Learning ... (more)

The Paulding County Republican Women's Club has announced that Mr. Jeff Lewis, member of the Board of Directors with the Georgia Department of Transportation will be speaking on the T- SPLOST at this meeting.

The mayoral primaries are about a year away and people are already lining up to compete.

A group of youths clusters around a wounded person as Ohio National Guardsmen, wearing gas masks, hold their weapons in the background, on Kent State University campus in Kent, Ohio, on May 4, 1970.

Liberal arts degrees have long had a rap of being a kind of luxury, add to this stereotype financial difficulties for the schools and employment obstacles for students, and the arts enter into severe scrutiny, if not blatant criticism.