With Focus on Diversity, Jackson State to Open Satellite Campus - Higher Education: In a move expected to increase its student diversity, Jackson State University, one of three historically Black universities in Mississippi, will open a satellite campus in a predominantly White city. The school says the expansion, which is partly aimed at helping the university fulfill a court-mandated desegregation order, is set for campus space in the nearby city of Madison, Miss. and classes may begin as early as this summer.
Last week, the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) trustee board agreed to a 10-year, $1.518 million lease agreement on behalf of Jackson State University (JSU) for 8,600 square feet at an office complex on Galleria Parkway in Madison. The location provides JSU “greater potential to increase other race enrollment, thus allowing the university to come closer to attaining its 10 percent Ayers minority enrollment status,” according to an IHL report.
“Diversity is part of our DNA. We would hope that we would get a diverse population there [in Madison],” says Eric Stringfellow, the JSU director of communications.
