by MBJ Staff Published: June 19,2013
Tags: damage, destruction, disaster, disaster recoverty, education, higher education, landscaping, natural disaster, postsecondary education, public university, severe weather, tornado, university, Weather, wind
HATTIESBURG — The University of Southern Mississippi is moving into the second phase of a comprehensive landscaping plan to restore the southern edge of its Hattiesburg campus that suffered extensive damage from a Feb. 10 tornado. The initial phase of the $3-million project – which included planting of five mature live oak trees, grass sodding [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 19,2013
Tags: athletics, build, building, construction, education, Golf, higher education, postsecondary education, public university, sports, university
HATTIESBURG — Right now, a rolling landscape of churned earth is all that can be seen at the northeast corner of the Hattiesburg Country Club. Within the next few months, those 5½ acres will be transformed into the kind of first-class practice facilities that the Southern Miss men’s and women’s golf teams never have been [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 18,2013
Tags: college, education, educator, higher education, postsecondary education, private college, public university, report, teacher, training, university
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — A group pushing for changes in how the nation trains teachers says Mississippi’s teacher training programs are mediocre at best. The report is from the National Council on Teacher Quality, and is backed by Mississippi groups pushing for educational improvements. However, leaders of some colleges of education say the council’s report either [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 18,2013
Tags: COST, education, educator, elementary education, funding, misappropriation, party, public education, public school, school, school district, school superintendent, secondary education, travel expanses
COLUMBUS — City schools superintendent Martha Liddell has been fired. The action came in a 3-2 vote of the Columbus school board. No interim superintendent was named. Controversy has surrounded Liddell after questions were raised about her use of district funds and personnel for a private party and excessive travel. Liddell had said she reimbursed [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 16,2013
Tags: appropriation, budget, budget cut, college, community college, COST, education, junior college, postsecondary education, tuition
JACKSON — Tuition will rise at 11 of Mississippi’s 15 public community colleges this fall, with average tuition for two semesters (fall and spring) rising about 6 percent to $2,376. Here are the rates that each college has approved or has projected to the state Community College Board, as well as the percentage change from [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: June 12,2013
Tags: Cancer, canine, college, dog, higher education, medical, medicine, postsecondary education, public university, research, science, university, veterinarian
STARKVILLE — A group of veterinarians at Mississippi State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine is working to better understand cancer in dogs, work that will likely also advance knowledge of human cancer. MSU scientists said there is little difference between cancerous tumors found in dogs and humans, and the opportunity to help both human and [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 10,2013
Tags: artist, award, cultural heritage, culture, education, higher education, history, Museum, music, musician, postsecondary education, record, recording
CLEVELAND — The Grammy Museum Mississippi will showcase the state’s role in developing blues, country and genres that shaped American music. Officials are breaking ground tomorrow for the museum. It will be at the south end of the Delta State University golf course, off of Mississippi Highway 8 in Cleveland. The museum is scheduled to [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 9,2013
Tags: education, educator, employee, employer, higher education, job, manufacture, manufacturer, manufacturing, postsecondary education, public university, university, work, worker, workforce, workforce training
WEST POINT — Former University of Alabama chancellor and Mississippi State University president Malcolm Portera begins work this month to ensure that locals get jobs at a tire plant being built in West Point. The Commercial Dispatch says Portera’s new role will be to make sure that jobs at the Yokohama Tire Corporation are filled [...] [...]
MCCOMB — The South Pike School Board has extended a contract with a consultant to provide a year of training to the district’s new business manager, who is the school board president’s daughter. The consultant, Bonnie Granger is a certified public accountant. She was hired after the board voted in December 2012 to hire board [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 6,2013
Tags: alderman, board of aldermen, city, city government, education, funding, mayor, millage, municipal, municipality, public education, public school, school, tax
OCEAN SPRINGS — Aldermen say they’d like to meet with Ocean Springs school officials to discuss with them the urgency in reducing school taxes. Alderman Jerry Dalgo says the best solution to the city’s financial crunch is for the school district to come down on its millage for the coming fiscal year, which would in [...] [...]
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