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

One fired college president warned his former peers: "Watch your back."

Delta State University's newest president is officially on the job. Dr. Daniel J. Ennis took over the reins in Cleveland on June 1.

Though Taylor gave an interview to a local paper last week announcing she was leaving, it’s unclear if she stepped down or was fired.

Delta State University in Mississippi is getting a South Carolina educator as its ninth president. The board for Mississippis eight public universities did a nationwide search for a new leader.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Delta State University in Mississippi is getting a South Carolina educator as its ninth president, and officials said he will face challenges in recruitment, retention and fundraising.

Delta State University in Mississippi is set to have a South Carolina educator as its ninth president. Daniel J. Ennis is scheduled to assume his new post on June 1.

Mung Chiang will be the next president of Purdue University at West Lafayette.

Darin Schierbaum, interim police chief of Atlanta, decried "a senseless tragedy" and a Subway restaurant owner said "it just breaks my heart" after a man opened fire, killing an employee and injuring another over an argument about too much mayonnaise on his sandwich.

Delta State University president William LaForge is being removed from his position at the end of this month, according to a press release from the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning, which oversees Mississippi’s public higher education institutions. The announcement did not give a reason for LaForge’s abrupt departure after nine years as president.