Universities in Mississippi raising tuition for 2024 - 2025 school year
Every university in Mississippi except for Delta State will be raising tuition for the 2024-2025 school year. The new rates were approved by the…
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Mississippi's first direct-entry MSN receives approval
Mississippi State University received approval to admit the first students into a newly-created Master of Science in Nursing degree program at MSU-Meridian. The program is Mississippi's first direct-entry MSN that allows college graduates holding non-nursing degrees to enter the nursing…
Joe Paul to come out of retirement to lead USM as interim president
The Board of Trustees for IHL has approved a transition plan for the University of Southern Mississippi that will bring a former administrator back to the Hattiesburg campus. On Thursday, the State Institutions of Higher Learning OK'd the plan to…
Board: Vaccine required for most Mississippi university jobs
By LEAH WILLINGHAM JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Most employees at Mississippi’s eight public universities will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19 after a vote from the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning board of trustees Monday. The action came on…
MSU president's contract extended through 2025
The Mississippi Board of Trustees of Institutions of Higher Learning has renewed the contract of MSU President Mark E. Keenum for a four-year term ending June 30, 2025, at his present compensation. Keenum is now in his 13th year of…
State IHL approves MSU research center for Ocean Springs
Mississippi State received formal approval to build the Northern Gulf Aquatic Food Research Center, a multi-million-dollar facility in Ocean Springs and the first of its kind on the Mississippi Coast. The Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning, Jackson County Board of…
IHL approves Ole Miss request to move Confederate statue
The Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning approved the University of Mississippi’s request to relocate the Confederate Monument from its current campus location, at the front of the Circle on University Avenue, to the University Cemetery,…