JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Colleges are seeing more student enrollment, which has led to housing challenges.
Jackson State University (JSU) administrators said they’re taking a proactive approach to accommodate students.
“University has ongoing renovations on some of our residence halls that are coming up very soon. And just recently, a year ago, we opened up One University, a place again where it was only half a space filled. But this semester, we’re filling the whole building up. Another partnership that we started it was with the Holiday Inn Express, which is something we’re pretty excited about. We were able to house some students at least about 200 can sort of fit in there. And so, that’s sort of helping us to deal with some of the issues that all the colleges are dealing with and make it so we have space for students to learn,” said Dr. Jonas Vanderbilt, vice president of JSU Student Affairs…