Alcorn State University:
| A Campus of Excellence |
Dr.
Clinton Bristow, Jr., the sixteenth president of Alcorn State University,
assumed the presidency on October 9, 1995. Alcorn State is dedicated to
academic excellence, and producing students with good citizenship qualities.
It was created in 1871 and has the distinction of being the first historically
Black land-grant institution and the first state-supported institution
for the higher education of Blacks in the United States. The approximately
3,000 student body is predominantly Black; however, it includes Caucasian,
Asian, African, and West Indian students. The student population is composed
of sixty percent female and forty percent male. Situated on 1,700 acres
and known as "A Campus of Excellence," Alcorn has attracted students from
all 82 counties in Mississippi, 42 other states and from 18 foreign countries.
The University is situated in Claiborne County--seven miles west of Lorman, seventeen miles southwest of Port Gibson and almost halfway between Vicksburg, Mississippi to the north and Natchez, Mississippi to the south. Built on a gentle slope, the campus is carefully landscaped, carpeted with green grass and surrounded by attractive shrubbery. Towering trees, many more than one hundred years old and festooned with Spanish moss, shade the grounds enhancing the picturesque setting in which quiet study and worthy companionships are fostered.
The instructional program is divided into seven schools, with programs offered on the associate, baccalaureate, master's and specialist degree levels. The Alcorn faculty is both international and cosmopolitan. Faculty members have studied at some of the leading colleges and universities in the nation as well as the world.
"Alcorn State University is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the Associate, Bachelor's, Master's, and Educational Specialist degrees." Alcorn's teacher education program is accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. Both the Associate of Science in Nursing and the Bachelor of Science in Nursing programs are accredited by the National League for Nursing. Alcorn State University is an accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music and the National Association of Industrial Technology. The home economics program is accredited by the Council for Accreditation of the American Home Economics Association and the food and nutrition and institution management programs are approved by the American Dietetic Association. Graduates of Alcorn can be found in almost every field of human endeavor. Currently more than 150 businesses, industries, governmental agencies and school systems (including graduate and professional schools) recruit on the Alcorn campus. Alcorn State University has grown from an agricultural and mechanical college into one that includes a small center of liberal arts preparation of wide recognition and has emerged as a multifaceted state university.
We invite you to visit Alcorn.
