Jackson Jambalaya

First rule of physics = for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Too much Prime.

So the people that he has not listened to or met with are mad at him and making a sad attempt to get his attention. They should all hold their breath until he responds; that would show him!

Prime goeth before your fall.

Interesting that they lead with complaints about vagrancy/homelessness/crime/unsafe conditions. Seems a bit off brand for virtue-signaling "academicians." Must be a NIMBY thing.

Too woke or not woke enough?

Is he not woke enough?

Faculty has hurtie feelings.

"First rule of physics = for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."

That's actually Newton's Third Law: Action & Reaction, but hey, who's counting.

Is this code for, they big mad that Prime left and its this guy's fault?

It's about time! The IHL found this clown off some woodpile and made him president because they thought he would do nothing like the last guy they shuffled in. Not only does he do nothing but he makes things worse! JSU needs competent leadership but won't get it from this Bryant-Reeves college board.

Key words, people....'Shared Governance'.

Way too damned many employees, public and private, demand or dream about shared management, shared governance, shared policy writing, shared disciplinary decisions.

Life at work is no damned union environment unless and until you have a union in place.

Sure, these bobble-heads wanta be equal to management but with none of the responsibilities of leadership and those who are actually accountable for management-level decisions.

Sit down and do the jobs you were hired to do or find yourself replaced.

Now that Coach Prime has left the powers that be will need to do their job. He was a distraction from their incompetence.

Seems like the faculty are upset about the conditions on campus. Well let me tell the homeless crack heads have taken over south Jackson. I would not be suprised when they say the homeless are in the buildings and following students around. This is a huge problem. I have always said JSU needs to build a massive wall around campus to keep these bums out of there. Who wants to go to school when you have crack heads on campus squatting around. As far as maintenance of buildings there is plenty of money at the BOB to take care of that for them.

Here's one. Find any college president, anywhere in Mississippi, no, anywhere in the South less qualified to be a college president than this guy the College Board chose for Jackson State. I DARE YOU!

@11:10a & 11:11a

Gosh...ya'll are just...mean.

has everybody already forgotten about the arrest of JSU president william bynum on solicitation of prostitution, false identity and marijana charges back in feb 2020?
what ever happened to him?
i don't know who picks out college presidents for JSU but whoever it is ought to be fired.

Coach Prime was impressed with the potential of Jackson State until he met the president. Then, time to go go go.

@12:28 PM Isn't he the county administrator or attorney for the board of supervisors?

The timing of this is in parallel with his being named 2023 Top CEO by the Mississippi Business Journal. There's a story here...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jsu-president-hudson-recognized-top-185700670.html

This was coming two years ago but the Deion Sanders glory days postponed the lynch mob. His appointment was the most blatant declaration of war against J-State since pre-Ayers lawsuit. The appointment of the pervert and criminal Bynum was bad enough but this guy is a joke.

Welp, Prime was right after all…..

Neither Prime nor Choice nor House Grade got shit to do with this. All you all know to bark about is Neon. Give it a rest. He gone.

MBJ is as much of a joke as is MT.

I have to agree with the senate on this one. This guy is a JD with no management experience much less higher Ed experience. He shouldn’t be anywhere near a c Suite.

Big deal. So the faculty has no confidence in their boss. As if that matters.
They don't hire or fire the pres and the people who do don't give a damn about them or Jackson State. JSU has no clout with the governor who selects the college board or with the legislature which funds their pipe dreams. If they are so upset they should take a job at a school with money and the ability to select their own leadership or shut up and teach. They are too arrogant to face facts... no matter their degrees they are just hired hands.

Some faculty senator thinks they can be promoted to president.

Prime is gone. So are the dreams of long overdue funding and big time development. Oh Well....back to reality.

I read some of these comments and decided to check the curriculum vitae and published credentials of several HBCU presidents as well as the JSU selection. After doing so I can only say that someone at the highest level does not take JSU very seriously or simply dislikes the place. No serious search would produce this result. If the faculty senate does not demand academic integrity nobody else will. That's sad.

This is the same moronic Senate that ran off Ron Mason.

So the Jackson State faculty and their supporters are upset with the president? What else is new? They will always be upset because they expect too much from an agent of the IHL Board of Regents. The board is never going to elevate the status of JSU no matter how much they bitch and moan. The JSU people wanted to be a full fledged "university" so the college board simply made the title "university" meaningless and left them in their second class status. That was their last chance. The president can't change that. If he tries he will be fired. It may be frustrating but it will not change. The board has a guy who suits THEIR vision not the JSU faithful. The school will probably continue to shrink.

Again. This is the same moronic Senate that ran off Ron Mason, the best President ever. These people will never be happy.

6:09 Right. The same Ron Mason who openly admitted his loyalty was to the college board and that the IHL would never advocate for the funds to make JSU competitive with the big three. He proposed that the best hope might be to merge with Alcorn or Valley to form "Jacobs State" (Jacobs?) and hope for the best. You know the reaction. That Ron Mason? But you're right these people will never be happy.

@6:09 Mason left 12 years ago and he wasn't run off by the faculty senate. Only three of the current senators were on the faculty senate then. The senate has just over 30 members.

Prime left for more money and more media attention. This guy was not a factor.

Mississippi's "higher ed" system is a cabal overseen by the IHL and MCCB who both are charged with keeping quiet the BILLIONS in federal student aid grants/loans that massively subsidize local pet projects and administrative bloat that are obscene. It's really a jobs program for the well-connected. Nothing more. Education is not a priority, only certification of attendance and "completion". All can be done online now of course, making it even more bogus.

Before long the secondary system (K-12) will be fully blended with the flimflam as part of the funnel system that makes sure those students continue to be channeled through the cattle guards to apply for that FAFSA gravy.

Over 30% of the enrollment at 15 community colleges are now "dual credit" ONLINE high schoolers who are able to actually get an associate degree while earning their high school diploma... it's of course double dipping, but shhhhh. Wink. Nod. Smile. They can't let them NOT go to college - we'd lose that free federal moolah in the name of "helping young people". Total horseshit. It's about the dollars. "Education is all Mississippi has in terms of jobs", is a quote often heard in the halls of power.

Deion filled a needed void of inspiration and leadership, but then left a vacuum. But what's happening on every campus in the state is tragic in the administrative bloat and vanity projects that fed/state taxpayers don't even know about. And the college foundations are the washing machine for all that cabbage.

The Jackson State community has been disgusted and embarrassed since the Phil Bryant college board sent that dunce Bynum to cripple JSU. When he was finally arrested the board again showed their hostility towards Jackson State by appointing an unqualified stooge to replace him and continue the process. The arrival of Deion Sanders and the subsequent explosion of publicity paused all efforts to publicly protest the rotten administration. Nobody wanted to put a damper on the good times. But now, it's time again to point out the dire situation the university faces without competent leadership.

I remember there was a former female president of jsu that could not account for over $90 million in spending. And that campus is just as derelict as always

12:22. It was NOT $90 million. It was only $75 million.

12:22 That would be amazing if it were true, and it's not. If you rely on documented facts rather than your "memory" you will find that the disputed amount is far far less than that and it regarded depletion of the university endowment, mostly to fund the severely underfunded engineering dept. Her problems with the IHL was not personal corruption but expansion of the university without their approval.

January 28, 2023 at 4:19 PM, if you know it was ONLY $75 million, maybe you know where it went. Would you care to share the love?

4:19 It wasn't $75 million either. $75 million? Get facts stop hate dreamin'

Faculty Senate at most schools is a coo coo farm.

The very people the faculty are complaining about are the same people who keep electing Lumumba. By the way, the President of the college is supposed to fix the vagrant problem in Jackson, as well as the crime? Ok. What about a letter to the Mayor?

@ 4:19, is that supposed to be ok or make us feel better?

The amount "unaccounted for" (stolen) was $37,000,000. Were she white, she would at least have been investigated, and probably in prison.
https://mississippitoday.org/2016/10/25/jackson-state-university-president-resigns/

"Meyers’ resignation came days after the College Board hired a CPA firm to examine JSU’s finances after the university’s cash reserves went from $37 million in 2012 to about $4 million this year."

It's all a waste of time. The IHL don't give a flying damn about some faculty senate or Jackson State. What a joke.

Dr. Meyers drained the rainy day fund--not the endowment. She used those funds to offer scholarships to boost the enrollment, to fund Ayers programs that had sustainability issues as Ayers funds waned, and to paper over a growing annual deficit. Much of the reason for the subsequent retrenchment after Meyers resigned was so JSU could save enough money to replenish the rainy day fund.