Jackson State Enrollment Fall 2017 Drop 12.5%


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Enrollment this fall fell from an all-time high at Mississippi’s eight public universities and declined for the seventh straight year at the state’s 15 community colleges.

Preliminary counts released Friday show students decreasing 1.6 percent at universities and 0.9 percent at community colleges.

Jackson State University shrank 12.5 percent, the most among the universities. Spokeswoman Maxine Greenleaf said the school cut back on aid to students as the university deals with a financial crisis and purged students with overdue bills more quickly.

“The university is requiring payment earlier in the semester, which allows us to manage our resources more effectively,” President William Bynum said in a statement. “Also, JSU reduced institutionally funded scholarship offerings in order to stabilize these expenditures.”

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2017/09/08/mississippi-college-enrollment-drops/105407926/
 

This is no surprise .... more people are leaving Mississippi than staying. At Texas Southern, I knew so many students and faculty/staff members that were Mississippi born and raised (especially from Jackson). Even the Jackson mayor is a Texas Southern graduate.

Mississippi is not a great place to be black and where Democrats (the people nicest to black causes) have no power
 
tsugraytiger said:
This is no surprise .... more people are leaving Mississippi than staying. At Texas Southern, I knew so many students and faculty/staff members that were Mississippi born and raised (especially from Jackson). Even the Jackson mayor is a Texas Southern graduate.

Mississippi is not a great place to be black and where Democrats (the people nicest to black causes) have no power
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WHATTTTTT???? None of that you stated had anything to do with JSU enrollment decrease. Decrease came from cut in scholarships. Enrollment will get bck up.
 
Storm96 said:
Texas doesn't have a single Democrat elected to a statewide office. Its been that way for years
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Yeah but Democrats still have a stronger influence in Texas than in Mississippi. Of the four biggest cities in Texas ... three have democrat mayors. All the major cities in Texas are democrat territory. The Republican stronghold has been steadily declining over the last two decades. The only reason why Democrats haven't taken over in Texas is due to gerrymandering which the courts are trying to stop.
 

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