Shawnee student named to dean s list at Mississippi College
The Shawnee News-Star
Carly Fisher of Shawnee has been named to the Fall 2020 Dean s List at Mississippi College.
The Mississippi College Office of Academic Affairs releases the dean s list after the close of fall and spring semesters each academic year. To be eligible for the dean s list, a student must maintain a 3.5 grade point average, based on a 4.0 system. The student must take a full course load of at least 12 semester hours of undergraduate credit with all academic courses impacting their grade point average.
Mississippi College, affiliated with the Mississippi Baptist Convention, is a private, co-educational, Christian university of liberal arts and sciences serving more than 4,500 students, from 40 states and more than three dozen countries. Founded in 1826, Mississippi College is the oldest institution of higher learning in Mississippi, the largest private university in the state and America s second oldest Ba
Mississippi approves flag with magnolia, ‘In God We Trust’
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUSNovember 4, 2020 GMT
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Mississippi will fly a new state flag with a magnolia and the phrase “In God We Trust,” with voters approving the design Tuesday. It replaces a Confederate-themed flag state lawmakers retired months ago as part of the national reckoning over racial injustice.
The magnolia flag was the only design on the general election ballot, and voters were asked to say yes or no. A majority said yes.
Legislators will have to put the design into law, but they are expected to do that with little fuss because they already did the hard work of retiring a flag that some people wanted to keep.
Mississippi prison begins seminary program for incarcerated women Inmate Katina Quinn, left, receives her certificate from MDOC Deputy Commissioner Gary Young for completion of the âExperiencing Godâ discipleship course in preparation for her participation in the first seminary class for women at the Central Mississippi Correctional Facility. (Source: MDOC) By WLBT Digital | January 15, 2021 at 6:13 PM CST - Updated January 16 at 9:24 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The Mississippi Department of Corrections has revealed a new seminary program for incarcerated women after launching a similar program for men over ten years ago.
The âExperiencing Godâ discipleship course is said to be designed to deepen the inmatesâ understanding of God and their faith. It is also a requirement for the seminary program within the prison.
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FILE - This Sept. 2, 2020 file photo shows the magnolia centered banner chosen by the Mississippi State Flag Commission displayed outside the Old State Capitol Museum in downtown Jackson, Miss. Voters approved the design in the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. It replaces a Confederate-themed flag state lawmakers retired in late June as part of the national reckoning over racial injustice. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Mississippi is updating its laws to include a new state flag with a magnolia and the phrase “In God We Trust,” six months after legislators ditched the last state flag in the U.S. that had the Confederate battle emblem.