“We’re going to be neighbors with our students, and I try to run a few miles a day, so I’ll plan to get out and jog around the campus inspecting grounds as I go. “It’s important for me to have first-hand knowledge of what our students are experiencing as campus residents,” he said. He also plans to move into the president’s home to fully experience campus life. Thompson said he is focused on improving campus safety and that he and JSU Chief of Police Herman Horton have already begun discussing necessary changes, including adding cameras around the campus and hiring a new campus security officer. “But that’s one of the things I really want to do … I plan to spend a lot of time doing active listening, listening to our stakeholders.” “They are very smart, and they’ve given me a lot of solutions in many areas to some of the challenges that we have,” he told those gathered. He said he had spent the first few days in student spaces talking to and eating with them as he took stock of problems facing the university and how to solve them. The day marked Thompson’s fourth on campus. “I want to say our students are my priority and will be the North Star of my administration,” he said. He told supporters that his administration will focus on building bridges, accountability, customer care and financial sustainability. Marcus Thompson entered the third-floor student ballroom of the Student Union and shook hands with most of the roughly 50 people gathered for his first press conference as the new leader of Mississippi’s largest historically Black university on Thursday. JACKSON, Miss.-Jackson State University President Dr.
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