Dr. Tracy Cook Named as Alcorn State University’s 21st President
The Board of Trustees for the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning named Dr. Tracy Cook as the new president of Alcorn State University.
The Board of Trustees for the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning named Dr. Tracy Cook as the new president of Alcorn State University.
Mississippi Sen. Hillman Frazier, D-Jackson, said he doubts a bill to close three universities will survive a legislative deadline Tuesday.
Mississippi University for Women president Nora Miller announced “Mississippi Brightwell University” as the institution’s proposed new name.
JACKSON, Miss.—Jackson State University President Dr. Marcus Thompson entered the third-floor student ballroom of the Student Union and shook hands with most of the roughly
Former Jackson State University Vice President Dr. Debra Mays-Jackson alleges that IHL engages in sexually discriminatory hiring practices.
Mississippi’s IHL Board of Trustees named Dr. Marcus L. Thompson as the new president of Jackson State University.
Mississippi has a burn center again after the University of Mississippi Medical Center established the Mississippi Burn Center on its campus in Jackson. The state has not had a burn center since last October, when the JMS Burn Center at Merit Health Central in Jackson closed its doors.
“Multiple prosecutors” are still examining the facts and making decisions about criminal charges in Mississippi’s sprawling welfare scandal that saw millions in funds meant for poor families go instead to wealthy celebrities, Mississippi State Auditor Shad White said on Thursday, Sept. 15.
In his March 2021 complaint against the University of Mississippi Medical Center, a plaintiff calling himself John Doe claimed the school wrongly dismissed him.
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