Every year a special day is set aside to honor the founders and celebrate the existence of Jackson State University. This year, that day felt warm, bright and sunny on a Thursday and was highlighted by a history lesson that recounted 133 years of JSU's survival. The message was clear to the students, faculty, staff, administrators and alumni gathered for the Founders' Day convocation in the Rose Embly McCoy Auditorium.
The keynote speaker Joseph A. Tucker stated that Jackson State has been through many struggles, but with the help of the university's founders, past presidents, students, faculty, staff and administrators, the institution was able to grow from a small seminary to Mississippi's Urban University.
Following the speech, the annual bell ringing ceremony was conducted to commemorate the time in the 1920s when students' schedules were regulated by the bell.
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