Lately the Mississippi Research Consortium (MRC) has approved a proposal developed by Professor Jae-Young Ko and other leading scholars at University of Mississippi, Mississippi State University, and University of Southern University (title: Coastal Management & Resilience). With the funding, Professor Ko will build close working relationship with the other participants of the project and develop...Read More

For the third day of the COMPA conference, on Feb. 19, 2016, Ms. Denita Jones (PhD)  gave a presentation on mental health care (title: Assessing the need for mental health aftercare for juvenile offenders).         Ms. Ashley Caples (MPPA; in pic), Professor Jae-Young Ko, and Mr. James Thompson (MPPA in 2015) presented their research on health...Read More

  For the Second day of the COMPA conference, on Feb. 18, 2016,   Ms. Lolita Bolden (PhD) gave a presentation on controlling childhood obesity (title: An impact analysis of shared use agreement between school districts and communities in controlling childhood obesity in Mississippi, presentation file).          Ms. Sheryl Bacon (PhD) gave a...Read More

Numerous PPAD students and faculty members are participating the 45th Annual Conference of Minority Public Administrators (COMPA) from today (2/17) to Friday (2/19). They are organizers, volunteers, and presenters. During the 1st day of conference, multiple sessions were organized by the PPAD faculty, and PPAD students presented their research results for the conference. Ms. Carmela...Read More

A group of PPAD students and a faculty member attended the Annual Conference of Mississippi Political Science Association, held at Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena, MS, February 12-13, 2016. Ms. Sheryl Bacon (PhD ; 1st left in pic)  gave a presentation on utilizing critical needs teacher scholarship program as a policy tool for human capital building in...Read More

  Ms. Denita Jones (PhD student; left pic), and Ms. LaTonya Curley (PhD student; right pic) attended the Transportation Research Board 95th Annual meeting (TRB 2015), January 10-14, 2016.  During the event, the two PhD students had interviews with the Center for Public Affairs Research, University of Nebraska at Omaha.  Ms. Jones talked about  the Trinity Behavioral Health, and Ms. Curley...Read More

With efforts of Ms. Gina Rodez and Ms. Gloria Hirse, finally we have the facebook webpage for the Department, https://www.facebook.com/jacksoncompa16/ Hopefully the facebook webpage would provide informative and friendly SNS environment for your productive study and comfortably engaging social networks among students, faculty members, and staff members.Read More

With hard works of Ms. Gina Rodez and Ms. Gloria Hirse, the facebook website of COMPA 2016 is open now. https://www.facebook.com/COMPA-2016-187603198264759/ The COMPA 2016 will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn, downtown Jackson, just a couple of blocks away from the JSU downtown campus, from Feb 17-19, 2016. It is a national conference! Scholars and graduate...Read More

 The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life of Brandeis University has selected Professor James D. Slack (Ph.D., Ph.D.),  as one of its inaugural Faculty Fellows in the Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation (ENACT) program.  The program is designed to be a strategic information hub to stimulate young people to acquire the types of personal interaction that will...Read More

Ms. Shelia Malone (MPPA) is selected for the Summer Education Research Internship program at the School of Education, the Univ of California at Irvine.   The internship program provides her with housing, flight expenses, and a stipend of $4,000. She was selected through a highly competitive nationwide selection process.  She will participate in the summer program from...Read More