Molly Minta

JSU’s 13th president, Marcus Thompson, pledged Thursday to improve “customer care,” accountability and financial sustainability at the HBCU.

Issaquena County’s population has one of the lowest rates of educational attainment in America.

Tuition costs, college selection, faculty diversity: Mississippi’s public universities explained in 7 charts.

A state prisoner has pledged to launch another hunger strike if MDOC doesn’t investigate his sexual assault complaint.

New JSU President Marcus Thompson, six key administrative hires as his tenure reaches the two-month mark.

The extension comes as students and families have encountered hours-long wait times and glitches after the federal government ‘streamlined’ the process.

MUW, seeking to rebrand itself, faces bigger issues than its name -- declining enrollment, a deficit and liberal arts education no longer in vogue.

Delta State University is seeking a new college of arts and sciences dean. Tthe faculty senate called for the current dean’s resignation.

Mississippi University for Women will ask lawmakers this session to approve a new name: Wynbridge State University of Mississippi.

Mississippi University for Women has once again backtracked on a proposed name change.

Mississippi spends less money on college financial aid programs than almost every state in the Southern region.

A lawmaker behind a bill to close three public universities in Mississippi says its chances of becoming law this session are “slim.”

A universities closure bill may be dead, but will another measure that passed committee Monday yield similiar results.

MUW merger bill sponsor Dennis DeBar said he fears the university is at risk if the Legislature doesn’t act.

MUW-Mississippi State merger bill dies in Senate floor vote.

A Mississippi college financial aid program has helped students from millionaire families pay tuition but not the state’s poorest students.

Gov. Tate Reeves’ IHL board nominees exclude alumni from HBCU schools and MUW.

Many of Mississippi’s community colleges are struggling with unmet needs, especially on the infrastructure side.

Bill to expand Mississippi’s college financial aid to adult and parti-time student dies in House, but issue could be revived.

The Global Teaching Project benefiting poor, rural public schools in Mississippi was denied grant renewal.