PPAD students Ashlee T. Kelly (PhD; first  in pic) and Sheryl Bacon (PhD; second in pic) attended the 2016 ASPA Annual Conference, held March 18-22 in Seattle, Washington. Also in attendance were faculty members Dr. L. Frances Liddell (third in pic), Dr. Gloria Billingsley (fourth in pic), and Professor Sy Murray (last in pic). Ms. Ashlee T. Kelly was featured in the “Big...Read More

Charles A. Carlisle (PhD) has defended his dissertation successfully on March 8, 2016. The title of his dissertation is ‘Examining the effectiveness of policy changes that transitioned a nursing home facility to a person centered provision of care.’  His advisor is Professor Johnny Gilleylen, Sr.  Congratulations, Dr. Carlisle.Read More

Professor Jae-Young Ko is one of the recipients of the JSU Creative Award for 2016.  His proposed project (title: Exploring Sustainable Community Development for the Mississippi Delta Region Employing Ecological Economics Framework) will be funded for the study of Mississippi Delta region throughout 2016.  The proposed study will explore the potentials of sustainable community development in which human...Read More

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