Faculty

Faculty/Staff Notes 0
- Faculty, Staff, Winter 2017 Issue
- March 5, 2018
Dr. Marvel A. Turner Sr., CPA, named interim vice president and Chief Financial Officer Dr. Marvel A. Turner Sr., CPA, is interim vice president and chief financial officer of Jackson State University. Turner earned his doctorate in Public Policy, Administration and Finance, as well as his bachelor’s in accounting from JSU. He holds a master’sREAD MORE
Nelson, pioneering educator, named interim provost 0
- Faculty, Staff, Winter 2017 Issue
- March 5, 2018
Longtime academician Dr. Ivory V. Nelson, a three-time university president and one-time community college chancellor, has assumed the role of interim provost at Jackson State University. Known for many groundbreaking firsts, Nelson was the first black president of Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington, from 1992 to 1999, and later president emeritus. During the early
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Whittaker appointed as associate provost 0
- Faculty, Staff, Winter 2017 Issue
- March 5, 2018
Dr. Joseph Whittaker has been named associate provost for Academic Affairs. Before arriving at JSU, he served as a tenured professor of biology at Morgan State University (MSU) and associate director of the NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Technology & Research Program. As a dean at MSU in the School of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences,
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Russian resolve 0
- Faculty
- August 26, 2015
WRITING CENTER COORDINATOR USES BACKGROUND TO RAISE JSU’S INTERNATIONAL PROFILE By Tammy Ramsdell As a child growing up in the Soviet Union, Tatiana Glushko never would have dreamed that someday she would become Dr. Tatiana Glushko, coordinator of the Richard Wright Center for Writing, Rhetoric, and Research at Jackson State University. She didn’t, after all,
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