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- As the search continues for Jackson State University's new president, a panel of educators including (from left) Board of Trustee member Gee Ogletree, Commissioner of Higher Learning Al Rankings, Jr., search committee chair Steven Cunningham and board of trustee member Dr. Ormella Cummings, conducted a listening session on campus to allow feedback from faculty and students, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
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Handwritten notes show what IHL trustees thought during JSU listening session
By MOLLY MINTA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,06/02/23-3:58PM , 757 Reads 9,915 Statewide
Over the last year, students, alumni, faculty and staff at Mississippi’s eight public universities have come to know this routine well: The Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees fires or lets go of a president, often providing little information as to why.
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- Jackson State University at Prentiss and J.R. Lynch Streets. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
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IHL hires national firm for Jackson State president search
By MOLLY MINTA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Wed,05/24/23-3:46PM , 456 Reads 8,510 Statewide
The Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees has once again selected Academic Search, an executive headhunting firm, to help it find the next president of a public university in Mississippi.
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Legislative committee releases report on UMMC’s LGBTQ+ clinic
By MOLLY MINTA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,05/19/23-2:34PM , 357 Reads 10,011 Statewide
A legislative committee on Friday released a report about an LGBTQ+ clinic at the University of Mississippi Medical Center that came under fire last year after lawmakers were angered to learn it had provided gender-affirming care to trans youth.
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Former Alcorn State President Felecia Nave was terminated, IHL minutes show
By MOLLY MINTA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,05/18/23-4:46PM , 349 Reads 7,555 Statewide
Executive session meeting minutes show that the Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees “terminated” Felecia Nave as president of Alcorn State University — a modicum of information but more clarification than the board has provided in other instances of presidential turnover this year.
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