Jackson Jambalaya

State and Ole Miss have both said they want to aggressively expand enrollment. JSU wants to grow 50%. MC and Belhaven are popping at the seams. And the number of high school graduates is flat and test scores are down....leading to the obvious conclusion...the only way to grow enrollment is to add less and less qualified students. And of course, on the taxpayers dime. Remember when you used to have to apply and hope you got accepted?

Just who in the hell does she think is going to pay for her pipe dreams? Speaking of pipes methinks she needs to put her crack pipe down and give it a rest!

11:32, that is the limit of your thinking, that in order to grow, our universities need to allow less qualified candidates?

How about reaching out beyond Mississippi for more students? How about competing for more of the best students across the south, the students that now only look at Vandy and Tulane, or Duke?

I work at MC. We are growing because we have gotten the word out about the quality of education at MC to students in other states. They come here because of the reasonable tuition as compared to private schools in their home states.

Matter of fact, we are often less than in-state rates for state universities elsewhere.

Is 12:08 comparing JSU to Vandy, Duke and Tulane??

I know textbooks are expensive, but there is nothing better than a book in your hand. What happens when your iPad quits working, battery dies forever, etc, and you have homework and/or classwork?

2:38pm

Welcome to the real world

JSU will sell the Memorial stadium to the City of Jackson with a federal funded bond program.

I bet the Sonic Boom will sound great in the new dome.

loved the picture of the 'sell-out' crowd on the first page of their presentation. now I see why they need a 50k seat domed stadium. Maybe when Kenny pays off his bus fare and Graham pays off his $47k bill to the state auditor, they can help them out.

I would like to see her concentrate on meeting the court's requirements in 'Ayers'. The HBCUs in this state have never come close to approaching the racial integration goals set forth by the court.

In order to look like more of a melting pot, while avoiding white enrollment, this school has reached out across the globe to give away diplomas to kids from other countries duped into 'coming to America' and 'experiencing the South'.

Mary Hawkins is driving around at night just to make sure they are not breaking ground for a stadium in Madison.

Nice try, 1:09pm, but there is no school in the state of Mississippi that compares favorably to Vandy, Tulane, or Duke. But if any school in this state has growth plans, they will need to attract out of state talent. You can't grow by relying on students only from a state with almost no population growth (MS).

I'm an MC supporter, but the reason MC is growing is because more kids are borrowing money under federal program. Thats it. Same reason JSU, Ole Miss and MSU are growing. A growing bubble lifts all ships.

PittPanther is slowly, over time, revealing himself as an uninformed rube. Other than a goofball's baseless opinion, I wonder upon which 'facts' he bases the notion that no school in MS 'compares' to Tulane or Vandy? Are we talking Weejuns and sleeveless sweaters here or what?

2:31 I can't speak for Tulane, but my kid toured Duke and Vandy this summer (and earlier this month, so the info is recent), and the number of Nobel laureates on the faculty, the med school admission rates, the ACT/SAT and GPAs required to be admitted, the career options followed by recent grads, all place those elite schools in a different category than state schools here.

We only looked at sciences, as we don't care how highly related the Transgender Studies program is (and I doubt they have one at MSU or OM - yet) :-)

"Domed venue" - I think she left out an "o"

Okay 2:31 PM. Which Mississippi school in your opinion compares to Vanderbilt?

Are you talking about football programs or transgender studies?

2:31 pm and 8:10 pm ( likely the same person) is the rube, not PittPanther.

Who but a rube hasn't read anything about college/university academic ratings so as to know PittPanther's opinion wasn't " baseless".

Unfortunately, we aren't doing as well as we could in state supported university rankings either, but rather than try to improve, let's just continue being defensive so we'll be certain to remain the " poor relation".