Alcorn State University News

William McCrary sees construction opportunities for his firm in the Mid-South. View Larger Summit Brantley Building Innovations , a Jackson, Tenn.-based general contractor and materials supplier, is opening a Memphis office to reach the Memphis, Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri marketplace.

Every corner of St. Mary Basilica will be filled with joyful noises come Sunday night.

Natchezians need to stock up on toothpaste and dental floss because in February their smiles will be on display.

In March, Alcorn State University President George E. Ross will return to Central Michigan University as the institution's new president, university officials said Thursday.

Travis Dyar received an Associate's degree from Hinds Community College and a teacher's certificate from Alcorn State University.

Up in Starkville, Mark Keenum, president of Mississippi State University, is telling his faculty to come to grips with the very real possibility that actual state dollars provided in 2012 could be 23 percent less than actual state dollars pledged when this fiscal year began.

This higher ed merger of Jackson State University, Alcorn State University and Mississippi Valley State University smells like segregation, whether intended or not.

University leaders say they worry that talk of mergers will impact their ability to recruit students and raise money during a time when both are needed.

Gov. Haley Barbour didn't just present his annual executive budget Monday: He proposed remaking state government with what he termed "very significant, major, dramatic ways to reduce spending." "What I propose is to change the way we do a lot of things," he said.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA/1890 National Scholars Program applications for the 2010 academic school year now are being accepted.

Leadership, leadership, leadership this word has recently been uttered in many circles within our community, especially while the process and procedures of our most recent elections are being carried out.

LORMAN a ' More Russian students are expected to come to study at Alcorn State University as a result of a recent visit by ASU president George E. Ross and a group of senior administrators to Voronezh, Russia.

Gov. Haley Barbour's plan to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil rights past and a decades-long legal battle over the historic underfunding of those schools.

Mississippi governor Haley Barbour proposes to consolidate the state's three Historically Black Colleges and Universities into a single school.

Mississippi's community colleges are seeing record growth, but they are not immune from Gov.

Gov. Haley Barbour said the state should consider merging some of its universities to save money.

Two months after three University of Southern Mississippi professors in the technical and occupational education program were given letters of termination, a plan is in place to retain two of them.

An Alcorn State University student was charged with murder today and is at the Claiborne County jail on $35,000 bond.

The Alcorn State University Family Clinic giving free H1N1 vaccinations to students at Adams County and Franklin County students.

An Alcorn State University student has been shot to death. We're told two female students were arguing off-campus and one fatally shot the other.