February 2007
Intermediate to advanced
266 pages
7h 11m
English
Introducing Business Concepts into Education
JACKSON STAT E UNIVERSITY (JSU), located in Jackson, Mississippi, the capital and largest city of the state, was founded in 1877 as a teachers college to provide a quality education for antebellum black students. The state awarded the college university status in 1977 to recognize its evolution into a research-intensive institution. During the next twenty-five years, JSU experienced steady growth in undergraduate and graduate students. In 2005, it ranked first among historically black institutions in acquiring federal research funds.1
Jackson State still faced serious competition for top students from the prominent, historically black colleges in the U.S. ...
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