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Alcorn State University invites you to join us in honoring the courage, leadership, and dedication of a fellow Mississippian and Alcorn State graduate: Medgar Wiley Evers. It was at Alcorn State University where Evers first became involved in civil rights activism. In his memory, ASU has established The Medgar Wiley Evers Heritage Village, a revolutionary student housing community, to enrich [...]

The widow of slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers will deliver the invocation at President Barack Obama’s second Inauguration on Jan. 21, 2013 The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Tuesday that Myrlie Evers-Williams would deliver the prayer. It comes 50 years after her husband was gunned down in the driveway of his Mississippi home. The inauguration falls on Martin Luther King [...]

In this day and age online course enrollment continues to grow at exponential rates. With online enrollment reaching tens of thousands in individual courses, MOOCs have demonstrated an enhanced sociability that has enthralled U.S. higher education and news media. The phenomenon recently motivated The New York Times to dub 2012 as “the year of the MOOC.” Both Morgan State University and Alcorn State University are in talks with a partnership with Udacity, one of the [...]

Alabama State’s not pressing the panic button at all. But Hornets coach Reggie Barlow is pushing a few points of concern to his players, following the Hornets’ 24-21 loss to Arkansas-Pine Bluff this past Thursday, a game which was aired live on ESPNU. Specifically, Barlow stressed defense during the Southwestern Athletic Conference’s weekly coaches teleconference Monday. The Hornets have allowed [...]

In 1948, Medgar Evers arrived at Alcorn College with a GI Bill, a football scholarship and eyes that had seen two very different sides of the same world. Mississippi represented one side. Evers grew up in Decatur, a farming town buried inside a state in which extreme racial divisiveness was status quo for the times. But at 23 years old, [...]

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Two more Mississippi public universities will offer tuition breaks to some out-of-state students. Alcorn State University and the Mississippi University for Women received approval from the College Board Thursday to waive higher charges for non-Mississippi residents. They join Jackson State University, which got permission for a waiver in June. The Legislature passed a law this year allowing universities to reduce [...]