Community colleges, universities and private institutions are among the schools affected by the Kansas judge’s unusual ruling.
Molly Minta
Mississippi Today
Higher education reporter at Mississippi Today in partnership with Open Campus.
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Number of faculty layoffs at Delta State still in flux
The university will notify faculty of layoffs on a case-by-case basis in six to eight weeks.
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Salaries for two public university presidents creep toward $1 million a year
Mark Keenum, the president of Mississippi State University, and Glenn Boyce, the University of Mississippi chancellor, now make $950,000 a year.
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Every Mississippi university but Delta State to increase tuition this year
Mississippi’s public universities have steadily increased tuition since 2000, putting the cost of college increasingly out of reach for the average Mississippi family.
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At an uneasy town hall, Delta State’s president unveils ‘dramatic, upsetting’ restructuring
49 vacant positions will be left unfilled, 17 staff have been laid off and an unknown number of faculty will be next as Delta State has proposed cutting 21 of its 61 programs.
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‘It wasn’t equal:’ Counter-protesters overwhelm pro-Palestinian students at the University of Mississippi
Counter-protestors vastly outnumbered the Free Palestine demonstrators at Ole Miss in first such campus protest in Mississippi.
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‘The stepchildren:’ Community colleges struggle to fund buildings for growing workforce programs
Many of Mississippi’s community colleges are struggling with unmet needs, especially on the infrastructure side.
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Governor’s nominees will leave powerful college board with one HBCU graduate
The nominations are already drawing criticism from some lawmakers in the Senate for not equitably representing the state of Mississippi.
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College financial aid program designed to exclude Mississippi’s poorest students has helped children of millionaires
Mississippi has a financial aid program designed to specifically exclude the lowest-income students.
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Conflicting views of Mississippi University for Women’s future underline merger bill
Nora Miller, the MUW president, has said the university is in solid financial health because it has no debt.