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JSU Article Hails Global Teaching Project Partnership

Jackson State University, one of the nation’s oldest and largest HBCUs, recently published an article celebrating its longstanding partnership with the Global Teaching Project. Together, JSU and GTP work to identify and develop promising high school students from underserved Mississippi communities.

The JSU article focused on GTP’s 8th annual Advanced STEM Winter Instructional Program.  In that Program, students from around the state convene in Jackson each year in the days leading up to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday to affirm the nexus between educational opportunity and Civil Rights in sessions at the State Capitol and Civil Rights Museum, and to engage in immersive classes in AP Biology, Computer Science, Physics, and Statistics on the Jackson State campus.

“The Global Teaching Project provides incredible opportunities for talented high school students in our communities, and, for nearly a decade now, we have been excited to host these students at Jackson State through the Margaret Walker Center for MLK weekend,” said Robert Luckett, Ph.D., director of the MWC. “I’m always deeply impressed by these young people. They are engaged, brilliant and focused on their futures. We have been lucky to see a number of them come to JSU as undergrads, and I know that we will see many more matriculate in the future. It really has been a beautiful partnership for us.”

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