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The renovations were originally budgeted for $15 million, but will now run at a budget of just under $43.2 million.

IHL as been planning to announce the next permanent president of Jackson State University on Oct. 23.

The governing board of Mississippi’s eight public universities has been planning to announce the next permanent president of Jackson State University on Oct. 23, according to a timeline of the search that was obtained through a public records request. A spokesperson for the Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees wrote in an email that the timeline [...]

“Emergency-style budgeting” at Delta State “has all but maxed out its credit and created an $11 million hole, university president says.

Construction workers work diligently outside of Farley Hall on Sep. 7, 2023. Photo by Jensen Ware. In partnership with all

Delta State hired a non-musician with a problematic past as interim chair of the music department, and left it, by many accounts, traumatized..

State Institutions of Higher Learning board considers 79 applicants for next JSU president.

The Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees has formed a task force to study accessibility for possibly the first time since the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed 33 years ago. 

DSU did not comment on its hiring of Steven Hugley, the new interim band director, who repeatedly misgendered trans people on his conservative commentary podcast, “Always Right.”

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves has been putting some of his biggest donors onto state boards, the gaming commission, worker commissions, and other plum positions.