Mississippi’s higher ed governing board has not approved a definition of DEI for the system or for any of the universities.
Molly Minta
Mississippi Today
Higher education reporter at Mississippi Today in partnership with Open Campus.
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Prison education programs are primed to take off in Mississippi. Here’s what one class looks like.
These programs are primed to explode in partnership with the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
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Yet another college president steps down, this time at Tougaloo
Walters’ step-down makes her the seventh college or university president in Mississippi to vacate the role in the last year.
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Handwritten notes show what IHL trustees thought during JSU listening session
Trustees typically keep thoughts like these to executive sessions, but Mississippi Today has reprinted the notes, when legible, exactly as they appear in the records.
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IHL hires national firm for Jackson State president search
The contract has not been finalized, but an IHL spokesperson said Academic Search would be paid $115,000.
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Former Alcorn State President Felecia Nave was terminated, IHL minutes show
The board initially refused to say if it had fired Nave or let her resign
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USM names Lance Nail provost despite concerns on campus
The selection is now pending approval from the Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees.
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‘They treated us like criminals’: UMMC lets go of most instructors for Oxford nursing program
The Oxford program, started in 2014, is one of several undergraduate nursing programs offered by UMMC and primarily caters to recent graduates who did not major in nursing.
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In the latest college president turnover, Rust College’s Ivy Taylor is out
The wave of presidential turnover at Mississippi’s institutions of higher learning has come to Rust College. The state’s oldest historically Black college in Holly Springs announced in a press release Wednesday that Ivy Taylor, who was appointed in June 2020, has left. Though Taylor gave an interview to a local paper last week announcing she […]
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Tuition increases yet again at most public universities
Mississippi’s eight public universities have all steadily increased tuition since 2000, putting the cost of college increasingly out of reach for the average Mississippi family.