Game changers on MS campuses

STARKVILLE - Mississippi State University will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the 'Game of Change' when the Bulldogs' basketball team host No. 11 TCU at 3 p.m. Jan. 28 at Humphrey Coliseum. The Game of Change was a seminal moment in the history of collegiate sports. In March 1963, during a time of great racial tension, MSU's basketball team elected to participate in the NCAA Tournament against an integrated opponent, Loyola. It was a groundbreaking decision. Despite threats and political pressure, MSU President Dean Colvard and head coach Babe McCarthy sneaked the all-white team out of the state to play against a Loyola squad that featured four black starters. Upon returning to Starkville, a significant step towards racial equality in athletics had been taken. Four members of the 1963 team are scheduled to be present at The Hump. Tickets at HailState.com/tickets or call (662) 325-2600 or in person at the MSU Athletics Ticket Office. (MSU 01/25/23) 

Harvard prof to speak at Ole Miss: OXFORD, Miss. – Randall Kennedy, the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is slated to speak Feb. 1 at the University of Mississippi School of Law. His lecture is titled “The Greatest Lawyer in American Legal History: Thurgood Marshall.” Kennedy clerked for the U.S. Supreme Court justice from 1983-84 before becoming a law professor. A graduate of Princeton and Oxford universities and Yale Law School, Kennedy teaches courses on contracts, criminal law and the regulation of race relations. Author of nine books, Kennedy received the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy book award for “Race, Crime, and the Law” (Pantheon Books, 1997). The free public lecture is at 12:30 p.m. in the law school’s Weems Auditorium. (UM 01/25/23)

JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY President Thomas K. Hudson has been selected as a 2023 Top CEO by the Mississippi Business Journal. The distinguished cohort of 23 leaders were honored Jan. 26 at an awards ceremony. 

TWO JSU graduate students from the College of Business (COB) were selected to represent the university at the 45^th annual National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA) conference. Tyra McCormick and Aaron Bailey attended the 2022 conference in Atlanta as members of the association’s first HBCU Student Scholarship Cohort. “Our MBA program is growing by leaps and bounds, and the quality is also growing. In order to maintain our standards, we have to raise the bar, too. We’re really proud of what we’re building with the program and the successes of our students,” said Dean Fidelis Ikem, Ph.D., College of Business. The two students were handpicked by COB administrators to join the inaugural cohort of approximately 50 HBCU business students from around the nation. 

JACKSON STATE has been ranked among the 2023 Best Online Bachelor’s Programs by U.S. News & World Report. JSUOnline offers undergraduate programs in business administration, history, childcare and family education, criminal justice, healthcare administration, professional interdisciplinary studies, and technology with a concentration in emergency management. JSU rose dramatically in the rankings to appear as No. 113, its highest position in the category to date. U.S. News assessed more than 350 schools in the online bachelor’s category based on a variety of objective factors, such as student engagement, faculty credentials, and services and technologies.