Jackson State University

Jackson State University

"Jackson State faculty" redirects here. For the school in Tennessee, see Jackson State junior college. For different uses, see Jackson faculty (disambiguation).
Jackson State University
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Former names
Natchez Seminary
Jackson faculty
Jackson State College
Motto "Challenging Minds, dynamic  Lives"
Established October twenty three, 1877
Type Public, HBCU
President Carolyn Meyers
Academic employees
450
Administrative employees
1,200
Students 9,802[1]
Location Jackson, Mississippi, u.  s.
32°17′46″N 090°12′28″WCoordinates: 32°17′46″N 090°12′28″W
Colors Navy blue and White
        
Athletics NCAA Division I
Nickname Tigers
Mascot Bengal Tiger
Website www.jsums.edu
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Jackson State University (Jackson State, or JSU) could be a traditionally black university in Jackson, Mississippi, u.  s.. based in 1877 in town, Mississippi as town Seminary by the yank Baptist Home Mission Society of recent royal house, the Society moved  the varsity to Jackson in 1882, renaming it Jackson faculty, and developed its gift field in 1902. It became a public public establishment in 1940, and it's a member of the Thurgood Marshall faculty Fund. below the Carnegie Classification of establishments of upper Education, Jackson State University could be a analysis university with high analysis activity.[2] within the fall of 2015, Jackson State University reached a student population of nearly ten,000 students, a rise of 11 November since fall 2012 that placed the university because the fourth largest HBCU within the nation.