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Tag: Mississippi
Community Colleges
Mississippi State Budget Proposal Entails Possible Slight Raises for State and Higher Ed Employees
Mississippi legislatorās latest budget proposal could entail potential raises for state and higher ed employees, The Herald-Sun reported. State employees would receive a 3% raise and most public university and community college staff would receive at least a 1% raise. The budget proposals for a state government budget that begins July 1 still need a [ā¦]
March 29, 2021
News Roundup
Belhaven U Renames Hall That Petition Says Is Named After a Segregationist
Mississippiās Belhaven University, a private Christian institution, has changed the name of a hall that a petition said was named after a segregationist. The university didnāt give a reason for the name change. Guy T. Gillespie Hall was named after a former president of Belhaven. It will now be called Lakeview Hall. Additionally, a gathering [ā¦]
July 7, 2020
News Roundup
Mississippi Will Remove Confederate Emblem From State Flag
Mississippi will remove a Confederate emblem from its state flag to end an association with racism and slavery. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Tuesday signed a historic bill approving the change. On Sunday, the state legislature passed the bill to remove the Confederate symbol from the state flag in response to growing sentiment against the [ā¦]
July 1, 2020
News Roundup
Mississippi Legislature Passes Bill to Remove Confederate Symbol From State Flag
Mississippiās legislature on Sunday passed a bill to remove a Confederate symbol from the state flag in response to growing sentiment against the insignia that symbolizes slavery. The bill now goes to Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves who will decide whether to sign it into law. Reeves, a Republican, tweeted on Saturday saying that if the [ā¦]
June 29, 2020
News Roundup
SEC to Mississippi: Change Confederate Symbol on Flag or Lose Sports Events
Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey said on Thursday that if Mississippi doesnāt change its Confederate-themed state flag the conference will consider not hosting championships events in the state. āIn the event there is no change, there will be consideration of precluding Southeastern Conference championship events from being conducted in the State of Mississippi until the [ā¦]
June 19, 2020
African-American
Ida B. Wells Wins Posthumous Pulitzer Prize Special Citation
Ida B. Wells received a posthumous Pulitzer Prize citation on Monday for her ācourageous reporting on the horrific and vicious violence against African Americans during the era of lynching,ā announced the Pulitzer Prize board on Monday. The citation comes with a bequest by the Pulitzer Prize board of at least $50,000 in support of her [ā¦]
May 5, 2020
News Roundup
MSU Libraries to Digitize Records of Enslaved Mississippians
Mississippi State University (MSU) Libraries said it plans to digitize records of enslaved Mississippians for the first time. The libraries are helping create the stateās first institutionally-supported digital database intended to give greater access to legal records identifying victims of slavery. The endeavor, called the Lantern Project, is one of only a few in the [ā¦]
February 19, 2020
Community Colleges
Hinds Community College President Announces Retirement
Last week, Dr. Clyde Muse, president of Hinds Community College, announced his plans to retire June 30 after leading the school for 42 years. He is currently the longest-serving community college president in the state, according to the Mississippi Business Journal. Muse became president of the school in 1978. Prior to his role as Hinds [ā¦]
December 9, 2019
Students
How The Dastardly āDā Prevents Getting to the āEā in Equity
Time and again we in higher education see polls that show students are not prepared for the world of work, while at the same time higher education steadfastly touts its success. And, in most all cases, higher education is right.
October 10, 2019
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Researchers Probe Criminal Gang Life in Rural Mississippi
Gang activity is a reality in rural America and not just large cities, according to two research scholars who are probing the lifestyles and motivations of young people in Clarksdale, Mississippi whose alleged crimes are linked to gang affiliations.
May 2, 2018
Community Colleges
Mississippi Universities Seek More State Funds, Outline Budget Woes
JACKSON, Miss. ā Leaders of Mississippiās eight public universities are ringing alarm bells about state funding, saying they could lose their ability to compete if funding cuts from recent years arenāt restored. In presentations Monday to legislators, Higher Education Commissioner Glenn Boyce and university presidents warned that Mississippi could fall further behind the nation economically [ā¦]
January 23, 2018
Students
Mississippi Initiative to Help Former College Students Finish Degrees
JACKSON, Miss. āLeaders of Mississippiās universities and community colleges say as many as 67,000 Mississippians who never graduated may have passed enough courses for a degree. They announced a plan Thursday to encourage those people to obtain degrees, as well as another 200,000 who dropped out short of the needed classwork over the last 15 [ā¦]
November 17, 2016
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