by Associated Press Published: May 21,2013
Tags: appropriation, bond, funding, Golf, golf course, golfer, golfinmg, sports, state park, tourism, tourist, visitor
MCCOMB — The state parks director is optimistic his agency can come up with the money to restore bug-eaten greens at Quail Hollow Golf Course this summer, despite the failure of the Legislature to approve a parks bond issue. Ramie Ford spoke to some 60 golfers on the patio behind the Quail Hollow clubhouse at [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 16,2013
Tags: appropriation, bill, college, education, funding, higher education, lawmaker, legialtive, legislator, Legislature, postsecondary education, public university, satate budget, state government, university
JACKSON — The College Board will seek roughly $30 million more in state money in the 2015 budget year. The board members voted today to ask the Legislature for the money for Mississippi’s eight public universities. Though the 2014 budget year doesn’t begin until July 1, state agencies begin planning requests for the following year [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 16,2013
Tags: appropriation, budget, college, community college, education, funding, higher education, junior college, postsecondary education, tuition, tuition hike
SUMMIT — The Southwest Mississippi Community College board of trustees has voted to raise tuition for the 2013-14 academic year. The move follows three other state community colleges’ recent decisions to raise tuition. “We haven’t raised tuition in three years. We felt like we needed a slight increase to maintain the quality in instruction,” SMCC [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: May 16,2013
Tags: appropriation, budget, education, educator, funding, health, health benefits, health care, health insurance, legislation, legislative, public education, public health, school, teacher
JACKSON — Funding for education is falling short because Medicaid is devouring a larger share of state money than it did a few years ago, a top Mississippi budget writer says in a letter to teachers and school administrators. House Appropriations Committee chairman Herb Frierson, R-Poplarville, wrote that expanding Medicaid would create more uncertainty about [...] [...]
BOONEVILLE and FULTON — Northeast Mississippi Community College and Itawamba Community College are raising their tuition fees for the fall semester. They join Copiah-Lincoln Community College, which earlier this week announced a tuition increase. Northeast President Johnny L. Allen said in a statement that the increase was the first since 2010. Allen said while the [...] [...]
MCCOMB — Copiah-Lincoln Community College will increase tuition beginning with classes this fall. The Daily Leader reports the Copiah-Lincoln board approved the increases this past week in a $25 million budget. President Ronnie Nettles says fulltime tuition will increase $125 per semester to $1,100. Nettles says out of state fees are increasing from $900 to $1,000 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 28,2013
Tags: appropriation, budget, employee, employment, funding, health, health care, job, layoff, payroll, public health, state agency, state government, unemployment, work, worker
JACKSON — Top officials at the Mississippi State Department of Health say they’re trying to prevent layoffs for 41 employees and 41 contract workers who were part of a program to help women with high-risk pregnancies. Dr. Mary Currier, the state health officer, said Friday that the social workers were told April 15 their jobs [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: April 26,2013
Tags: appropriation, budget, Congress, development, engine, federal agency, federal government, funding, high technology, lawmaker, legislative, research, rockety, science, scientist, Senate, Senator, space, space exploration, technology, test, test stand, testing
HANCOCK COUNTY – U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) wants NASA Administrator Charles Bolden to continue providing Congress information that will help ensure the upgrade of the Stennis Space Center’s B-2 test stand remains on schedule. Cochran addressed the NASA budget at a Senate Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Subcommittee hearing where Bolden provided testimony on [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 19,2013
Tags: appropriation, board, college, education, formula, funding, higher education, money, postsecondary education, public university, university
AROUND MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi University for Women, the University of Mississippi and Alcorn State University will get financial boosts under a new formula to distribute state money among Mississippi’s eight public universities. The College Board approved the formula yesterday without amendments, although some members had objected in a recent committee meeting to funding levels for [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: April 17,2013
Tags: appropriation, board, college, education, formula, funding, higher education, postsecondary education, public university, university
JACKSON — A College Board committee is moving forward a plan to change how state money is distributed among Mississippi’s eight universities. The board’s Finance Committee voted to send the proposal to the full board for consideration tomorrow, but not before one board member sharply questioned state subsidies of non-Mississippi residents. Higher Education Commissioner Hank [...] [...]
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