by MBJ Staff Published: September 26,2012
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GULFPORT — Hancock Holding Company has launched the Hancock Horizon Diversified Income Fund as a new addition to the company’s $1.5-billion family of investment funds. The fund seeks to generate steady income from a combination of financial investments. Hancock Horizon Funds senior vice president and chief investment strategist John Portwood, CFA, said, “This will be [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 21,2012
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JACKSON — Mississippi’s 15 community and junior colleges are seeking an additional $101.7 million in the 2014 budget year, again arguing that they’ve been particularly ill-treated in recent state spending plans. Eric Clark, executive director of the Community College Board, told lawmakers yesterday money would go to expand worker training, buy new equipment to train [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 20,2012
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JACKSON — The gap between the state’s school funding formula and money actually being appropriated could widen past $300 million next year, raising new questions about the formula’s future. Interim state Superintendent Lynn House told legislative budgeters the Mississippi Adequate Education Program will need $300.6 million more in the 2014 budget year than it received [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: September 19,2012
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ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi’s institutions of higher learning have asked lawmakers for $72.4 million more for the fiscal year that begins next July 1. “We’ve made a lot of cuts. We have consolidated programs. Now we have hit a wall,” higher education commissioner Hanks Bounds told members of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee yesterday. Bounds [...] [...]
by MBJ Staff Published: September 18,2012
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JACKSON — Attorney General Jim Hood has delivered a check to lawmakers for over $35 million in monies recovered by his office. As part of the Average Wholesale Price (AWP) litigation, the $35 million returned to the state includes more than $12 million from a settlement with Barr Laboratories Inc., IVAX Pharmaceuticals Inc., Sicor Pharmaceuticals [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 22,2012
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AROUND MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi’s eight public universities want an additional $72.4 million in budget year that starts in July 2014. Higher Education Commissioner Hank Bounds told the College Board the schools need money to increase faculty salaries and cover pension contributions. State money to universities will fall $32 million to $670 million in the 2013 [...] [...]
by Associated Press Published: June 19,2012
Tags: colleges, community college, education, fund, funding, higher education, junior college, skills, training, workforce training
BAY SPRINGS — Jasper County and Jones County Junior College have received $1.7 million to help construction a workforce training the center. The funds were announced by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Jones County Junior College Workforce Training Center would be located in Bay Springs. The 30,000-square-foot facility will be operated by the junior [...] [...]
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