Jackson State University invites everyone to the W.E.B. Du Bois Pinning Ceremony in the Student Center Ballroom on Feb. 20 at 6 p.m. A combination of freshman Honors College students and those not pinned during the previous year will be pinned. Out of the 648 Honors College students, 252 will be pinned. Students must be present by 5:30 p.m.
Honors qualifications include a minimum 21 ACT score, a 3.0 GPA that must be maintained after the first semester or the incoming freshman must be valedictorian/salutatorian of his or her high school class.
Five of the honor students who will be pinned on Feb. 20 shared quotes that they live by.
“In three words I can sum up what I learned about life: It goes on.”
Kionna Steward, political science major
3.8 GPA
“Your education is only as advanced as you allow it to be.”
Sharita Wright, social work major
3.6 GPA
“Never fear the things that you can’t do.”
Shatavia Stricklin, elementary education major
3.9 GPA
“Cultures are not inferior, they’re unique.”
Gabrielle Anderson, undecided major
4.0 GPA
“Live by God and everything else will fall into place”
Bernard Aldrich Jr., computer science major
3.5 GPA
For more information contact honorscollege@jsums.edu or 601-979-2107.