There are four
types of membership in the Alcorn State University
National Alumni Association.
Contact the Office of Alumni Affairs for more information on joining.
Active
Membership...
Individuals who have successfully completed
a minimum of three semester credit hours of course work at the undergraduate
level.
Associate Membership...
Individuals who are a friend or spouse of an Alcornite or an Alcorn
Faculty member, who have demonstrated genuine interest in Alcorn and have
expressed a desire to become affiliated with the alumni association.
Honorary Membership...
May include such persons selected by the Association in recognition of
outstanding and meritorious service to Alcorn or the Alumni
Association. Honorary members may not hold office, nor become members of the
Board of Directors. They are not required to pay annual dues.
Life Membership...
Life membership is $500.00 for those members who have purchased their
membership as prescribed in the By-Laws. Life membership is free for
those who are age 70 years and above.
Note...
Graduating students, both undergraduate and graduate, are given one year's
active membership in the alumni association upon graduation.
National
Alumni Association annual dues are $25.00 per calendar year. Contact your
local chapter for the amount of local dues.
Our Mission as Alcornites
We have come far, but we have far to go. Together we can set new priorities for
the coming years. We must develop cooperative efforts with other alumni groups
in the state that are mutually beneficial to the historically black colleges and
universities.
We, as Alcornites, must join hands as partners in working toward a thriving
university. We must stand and speak for what is true -- true to ourselves, true
to our God, true to our alma mater, and true to our fellow man.
Each of US can make a positive difference for Alcorn; but
there are even
greater differences that only we as a group can make. Truly, "Alcornites must pull
together because together we got more pull."
"We the people" gives a message that is much more
powerful than "I the person."
Why Join?
"Alumni support is built on the conviction that being good is
not enough...
on the certain knowledge that legislative money is a foundation on which to
build not a cushion on which to rest."
If Alcorn has not succeeded in persuading its alumni to give after four
years of experience on its campus, after having been subjected to the whole
educational program of the institution, it has failed in its mission. If
Alcorn trains its students to
"get"
but fails to
train them to
"give",
it really has no good
reason for existence.
It must be the hallmark of the alumni that they are
"giving"
people. As Alcornites that applies to everything about you -- your
vocational service, your family life, your church activity, and your
community relations. Giving should be evidenced also in your relationship to
your alma mater, Alcorn. It is in teaching people to give -- of themselves,
their efforts, their devotion and their means -- that universities like
Alcorn really have their mission.
If that is true, then joining the National Alumni Association,
contributing regularly to the Alcorn Foundation, recruiting students, and promoting
the university's like interests in the community become a yardstick for
measuring how well Alcorn has been doing the job which is its reason for
existence.
Your involvement in the National Alumni Association and participation in its
many support programs are specific, concrete yardsticks, sent to Alcorn, to
keep its records up to date. It's like sending a sample of your life back to
those who are engaged in teaching another student generation, to let them
know that you are keeping the faith with them by being a members of the
alumni association and a "giving person."
What alumni program you participate in or how much time and money you give isn't
nearly as important as the fact that you are reporting in. If you do that
regularly, I am sure you will see to it that the sample is one that does you
justice.
