Gift to aid JSU engineering grads


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STARKVILLE ? A Texas businessman has made a gift of $3 million to create an endowment to allow Jackson State University engineering graduates to seek advanced degrees at Mississippi State University.

Dave C. Swalm, founder of Texas Olefins, a Houston, Texas, manufacturer of petrochemicals, made the gift to MSU's Bagley College of Engineering. Swalm is a 1955 chemical engineering graduate from Mississippi State.


http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060929/NEWS/60929017
 

JSU/99 said:
This is like a 50/50 gift.
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Only b/c they are AFRAID... they know whats going to happen when JSU opens its doors to the New College of Engineering in the Fall of 07....
 
Tigris1877 said:
Only b/c they are AFRAID... they know whats going to happen when JSU opens its doors to the New College of Engineering in the Fall of 07....
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Please explain -
 
What will 'they' (Mississippi State) be afraid of????

They've had a school of engineering since before Valley was founded (1950). So why would they be afraid of JSU finally getting an engineering program some 56 years later.....

Sounds like a wonderful PARNETSHIP between two MS public universities, working together to keep OUR kids educated in our STATE (without being told to do so by the Courts)...

:tup: to Dave Swaim, MSU and JSU....
 
Taylor-Made'90 said:
What will 'they' (Mississippi State) be afraid of????

They've had a school of engineering since before Valley was founded (1950). So why would they be afraid of JSU finally getting an engineering program some 56 years later.....

Sounds like a wonderful PARNETSHIP between two MS public universities, working together to keep OUR kids educated in our STATE (without being told to do so by the Courts)...

:tup: to Dave Swaim, MSU and JSU....
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Thank you T-Made...:)

Some things are not a hand out, but a hand up. Accept it and change the world for the better...:tup:
 
Sounds like a wonderful PARNETSHIP between two MS public universities, working together to keep OUR kids educated in our STATE (without being told to do so by the Courts)...[QUOTE/]

Agree 100%

Because JSU will have a Engineering School, that does not threaten MSU, it only provide another avenue to educate those that does not desire to attend MSU.
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JSU has several partnerships with MSU. This is great. We have to keep up with things going on at the University.
 
JSU, need to stay on top of every nook and crannny, especially if there are federal grants awarded to MSU / JSU. JSU need someone on MSU campus watching and making sure JSU get it's fair share of state and federal research dolars...
 
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