Mississippi Business Journal » HCBU http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:02:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Bennett becomes first black president of major Mississippi university http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/07/bennett-becomes-first-black-president-of-major-mississippi-university/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bennett-becomes-first-black-president-of-major-mississippi-university http://msbusiness.com/blog/2013/02/07/bennett-becomes-first-black-president-of-major-mississippi-university/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:20:13 +0000 Stephen McDill http://msbusiness.com/?p=69362 Dr. Rodney Bennett has been named the tenth president of the University of Southern Mississippi, making him the first African-American president of a non-historically black college in Mississippi. The board of trustees of the Institutions of Higher Learning announced the unanimous decision today. “I am humbled and honored that the Board of Trustees has selected [...]

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