MATHOD VS. MADNESS
Students at JSU are experiences some interesting times. However, I don’t believe that many of them have cared to stop and reflect as to the occurrences of the past two weeks. Not to mention the plumbing problems experienced by the City. The result of “white flight” and its former mayor.
Let’s review:
· The State Legislature is spending much too much time trying to fix a budget that has, at its core, the destruction of public education as we know it. The question is WHY? The headline read: “MISSISSIPPI PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE 65% MINORITY”;
· Economic “give-a-ways” continue at a time when the State is in need of more funding. THANK ABOUT IT!!
· The State Senate, which has a Dixiecrat-Republican majority, restored funding to education only to have the governor take half of that away.
· Oh! by the way funds were shifted from education to PRISONS. WATCH OUT!!!
· Not to mention the ingenious MERGER to JACOBS STATE UNIVERSITY.
· One should not forget that the person with many of these great ideas is the Father of the States Academy System that was born as a result of Integration.
This is just food for thought. Eat it, digest it, and comment on the BLOG.
Dr. Gilbert
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These are definitely some things that we have to chew on while we focus on our education at Jackson State University. I think it would be a big mistake to merge Jackson State with any other academic institution. We've already been slighted and cheated out of a medical program, a law school, and a partnership with UMMC. I think that we should fight to save our school. However, the power to do so rests with alumni and their willingness to select a new president or renegoiate his contract. I think that the city should consider combining all of the community colleges like Hinds and its campuses along with Holmes and Co-Lin. But no one is looking at any of these possibilities. Instead, they're all gung-ho on ruining one of the State's most profitable academic institutions.
ReplyDelete~Lauren Veal~
I think it will be a big mess ny merging these schools together. These schools are all rivals to each other. It would be impossible to merge these schools together. The merging of these schools will cost a major deduction in the schools name and history of each school. With the merging of the schools quite a bit of things to change and even to make tuition higher. I strongly think the merger will be a big mistake.
ReplyDeleteSo When They Change the Name Of The School To Jacobs....Does That Mean People Who Graduated From Jackson State Are An Endangered Species...I Feel Like They're Just Tryin To Do Away With The History OF Mississippi's Historically Black Universitys....We Are Just Voices In The Wind to The powers That Be...Jeffrey Duncan
ReplyDeleteOMG..??? Jacobs State???? REALLY??? You think there are complaints now about the problems going on within these universities... There will really be problems if this whole merging thing is done. I dont think that it will work. They are trying to have things complete too soon. It takes time to do everything and especially something like this. For one, the monies are being provided to the wrong things. If one can provide so many funds to prisons then why is it so hard to provide more money to education<---something that is much more important than PRISON...Barcie Evans
ReplyDeleteWith all of the recent developments in the Mississippi capitol city, I can only wonder if the recent activity by state legislature is in essence "smoke in mirrors". What if their plan is to cause the "minorities" to get at odds with one another while going through the back door and taking over government? Just a thought but I say in these times lets look deeper into issues and not only be concerned with the surface issues.-Vincent Thomas J00322768
ReplyDeleteI think it would be a bad idea to merge these schools together.It wouldn't make to much sense doing black schools like this because we don't have that much money like a white school. So if its money they want a white school is were they need to merge together.
ReplyDeleteWell, to me it seems like because Jackson State is a Black College money does not want to be given to us, but we need an education like everyone else.
ReplyDeleteAlso,while so much money is being spent on building prisons why not use some of that money to try and help those people do better.
In conclusion, I do not feel good at all about combining these three schools. Even though the name will be changed it will still bring about other changes as well. If the name do get changed JSU will not be the same!
I am not for the merger nor am I against it. If the three HBCU's merge there may be good things to come in the end, but just like there are good things, there are also the bad. Good Reason: If we merge, we could have a total student enrollment that could be larger than the three "White schools" in the state. Tuition would probably even go down, making getting a college eduacation more affordable. Bad Reason: The merge may cause a drop to the enrollment of students with the name changer, cause like the others say, "I'm paying to graduate from JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY, not Jacobs State University", with the enrollment drop, it will cause the school to close, and it would be just another abandoned area in West Jackson. Another reason why I am against the merger is that it's not fair to the black community. Why should we have to merge our schools after the hard work that we went through to open the schools. If it wasn't for these schools, black people probably would have never had the opportunity to recieve a college education.
ReplyDeleteI feel that the merger is just a piece of you know what. I is just an act to take funds from us- the blacks, and give it to the whites. I mean look at it, at first it was delta state and valley, and other universites such as MUW and MSU. Now it is just jsu,mvsu, and asu. What is really goin on with these people who think that it's not a color issue,but a funding issue.All I can say is GOD HELP US ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteall of this merging business is absolute nonsense. the way in which minority education is being handled is never a new story but just the same story with different characters. it never gets old for the same thing happens everyday just to different people. the cost of minority education is reflected in the increase of prisons cost for there is where our minorities dwell. minorities need to yearn for equal opportunities as a whole instead as broken individuals or groups from time to time. i am a person who values her education and strives to become a teacher who will empower her students to do just the same just because education is key to everything including money. it is with an education that others should test our intellect and value as a person and not where we reside or the things that we involve ourselves in. the day when we as minorities are viewed as equal individuals will cease to ever exist without the faith of others to give us a chance and the faith in ourselves to prove it to them.
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