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Today, Jackson State University will honor its past, present, and future with the 136th Annual Founders\u2019 Day Convocation and Bell Ringing Ceremony: \u201cOne JSU: Higher Purpose, Higher Expectations, Higher Outcomes\u201d at 9:50 a.m. on the Gibbs-Green Pedestrian Walkway.<\/p>\n

Keynote speaker for the event will be JSU alumnae and Weather Channel Meteorologist, Vivian Brown. Brown, a native of Jackson, Miss., graduated from Jackson State in 1986 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Meteorology and joined the Weather Channel soon after. She was also a member of the track team with a full scholarship and earned her place into the JSU Sports Hall of Fame. She currently co-hosts \u201cDay Planner\u201d on the Weather Channel every Monday through Friday from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.<\/p>\n

Hillard Lackey, Associate Professor of Urban Higher Education and the first employee under President John A. Peoples, strongly believes that it is important for JSU students to know their past in order to carry on the legacy of the University.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe world is in agreement that your history determines, to a large extent, what your present and your future is going to be. So we need to imbue ourselves with Jackson State history in order for us to understand who we are and where we\u2019re trying to go. Everything has antecedence and without antecedence we can\u2019t deal with the present and we surely can\u2019t mold futures. So we want our students to be deeply imbued and immersed in this culture of Jackson State University so they can perpetuate the university because, they become the future,\u201d said Lackey.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cThose of us who are now on the stage, we\u2019re going to move on and we want them to take the stage. So when that time comes they will know what they\u2019re doing, that they are carrying on what was started; our heritage, our legacy, and our core values will persist.\u201d <\/p>\n

Natasha King, a senior English major from Jackson, Miss., believes that knowing the history of JSU is important to current students.<\/p>\n

\u201cAttending Founders\u2019 Day is important so you can know the history of Jackson State. It\u2019s important to get a degree, but you have to know why you\u2019re getting a degree and why does this make such a huge contribution. Assuming that you\u2019re African-American, this is doing yourself a service and you need to know how big this is,\u201d said King.<\/p>\n

Alexis Lloyd, a freshman Meteorology major from Greenville S.C. said, \u201cIt\u2019s important for us to know who our founders were, how far we\u2019ve come from 1877, and how people broke their necks for us to be able to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, JSU held other Founders\u2019 Day activities including: JSU Names and Sites: a discussion of the book \u201cJackson State University: The First 100 Years 1877-1977,\u201d written by Leila G. Rhodes; Dean Emeritus of Libraries; JSU Presidents, Programs, Politics and Football featuring Robert Major Walker, the first black mayor of Hattiesburg, Hillard Lackey, and Ivory Phillips, former Dean of the College of Education and Human Development; and a discussion on the History of the Sonic Boom and the Prancing J-Settes.<\/p>\n

Jackson State University was founded on Oct. 23, 1877 as Natchez Seminary; a school designed to teach Mississippi\u2019s newly freed and underprivileged African-Americans and operated for 62 years. After being moved to the city of Jackson in 1882, it was renamed Jackson College and became a school designed for educating future teachers. The college awarded its first degree in 1924.<\/p>\n

After the American Baptist Home Mission Society financially withdrew from Jackson College, the State of Mississippi took its place in 1940. After gaining its first graduate program and expanding its bachelor\u2019s degrees into the arts and sciences, Jackson College soon became Jackson State College in 1956 and Jackson State University in 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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