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Molly Minta covers higher education for Mississippi Today. Email her at mminta@mississippitoday.org
‘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.
‘A huge victory’: Minimum wage workers at USM get pay raise after protest
Starting July 9, benefit-eligible, hourly workers will see the minimum wage increase to $11.25 an hour.
‘We need it’: How one custodian is fighting fear to get a pay raise at U. of Southern Mississippi
Janice Jones makes about $10 an hour, the lowest wage on campus.
What does ‘contumacious’ mean? The history behind new tenure policies in Mississippi
The term is now a criteria university presidents can use to judge conduct in deciding whether to award tenure.