After Ole Miss student’s killing, many LGBTQ students no longer feel safe
Many worry that Lee’s killing will lead community members, seeking safety from violence and harassment, to conceal their sexuality or gender identity.
As court proceedings begin for slain Ole Miss grad Jay Lee, ‘an entire community is scared’
The LGBTQ community faces disproportionate violence and harassment in Mississippi. Lee’s killing, a friend said, directly affects everybody in the community.
‘My school is going to be fine’: Delta State interim president talks enrollment, donations
E.E. "Butch" Caston has come out of retirement twice in the last decade to work at the university. On July 6, he un-retired once again.
‘I am very disappointed’: Bill LaForge abruptly out as Delta State president
He wrote in his email to the campus that the reason trustees gave for his departure was primarily financial.
Mississippi not done spending historic settlement for HBCUs
The money from the 2002 settlement had been projected to run out at the end of this month.
Legislative watchdog examines how to change Mississippi higher ed governing boards
A new report report offered questions for lawmakers to ask before determining how, if at all, the state boards should be restructured.
New loan program aimed at nursing shortage will create more student debt, won’t add new nurses this year
Mississippi is lacking about 3,000 nurses, about one-fifth of the state's entire nursing workforce.
Valley State first HBCU to offer prison college program in Mississippi
Incarcerated people at two prisons in the Delta will be able to start earning four-year degrees from Mississippi Valley State University this fall for the first time in more than two decades.
A Delta State professor walks into a bar. The bartender asks, ‘Can I get you funding?’
The owner of Hey Joe’s started a department trivia competition in 2009 because he thought his regulars, largely faculty, would appreciate the money as the state made deep cuts to higher ed.
‘I want to assure you’: Letters from IHL commissioner shed light on controversial tenure changes
Faculty fear the changes will make it harder to get and keep tenure at Mississippi universities.