Alum (08-12) here, most students dislike her. It's hard to see the benefits she brings to the school, and very easy to find negative points to pin on her, such as the laying off of 80+ employees in '08, the new president's house mansion she had built (which was actually bigger than the town of Troy had permitted her to build, forcing Troy to offer an amended permit AFTER the base of the house had already been built), and the construction of EMPAC (experimental media and performing arts center), a 500 million dollar commitment to furthering the Arts in a STEM school. These negative points could be refuted and cannot be completely attributed to just Mrs. Jackson, but students don't really think about those sorts of things when deciding whether or not they like their president.