Alcorn State University

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Our mission is to serve as an effective liaison that fosters and enhances a mutually beneficial relationship and communication between Alcorn State University and the Alcorn State University National Alumni Association and friends by providing engaging programs, services, events, and initiatives that support the University’s mission of lifelong learning, research, and service for diverse constituencies and that encourage investment in and support of the University.

The Student Affairs units augment the academic experience of students by providing out of class programs, services, and activities that foster physical and emotional wellness, leadership development, civic and social consciousness.

When it was founded in 1871, the institution’s three major study components were the four year college track, the two year track, and the three year graded track. The students spent the mornings from seven o’clock until noon in classes.

Alcorn is the oldest public historically black land-grant institution in the United States and the second-oldest state-supported institution of higher learning in Mississippi. Alcorn University was founded in 1871 as a result of the people of Mississippi’s efforts to educate the descendants of formerly enslaved Africans. It was named in honor of the sitting governor of Mississippi, James L. Alcorn.

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