NATCHEZ, Miss. — Alcorn State University President M. Christopher Brown II said he is paying close attention to ASU’s campuses in Natchez and Vicksburg as prime locations for additional programs and course offerings as enrollment continues to grow.
“It may be the case that the growth model for the university is not in the Lorman location, but in our Natchez and Vicksburg locations,” Brown said. “And that’s something we’re really excited about.”
Part of the university’s plan to grow its other campuses includes offering students more opportunities to continue their education.
“The Natchez campus is something we’ll spend a lot more time rethinking,” Brown said. “If all we’ve done is offer business and nursing courses and you still have to come to the main campus for everything else, then we’ve not provided the proper delivery of service.
“I think you’ll see a lot more courses and academic majors being offered in the Natchez campus in the future.”
Some of the additional courses, Brown said, that might be offered at the Natchez campus include criminal justice, social work and education majors.
“Those are courses we believe our faculty can deliver in a number of spaces we have not just on our main campus,” Brown said. “The second area would be new opportunities such as health records management, which is actually a blend of health and business professions and something we’re looking at because of the health care reform.
