February 1, 2010
Mississippi
By ED KEMP @ HATTIESBURG AMERICAN
Is academic tenure under attack? A number of university professors across Mississippi believe so.
The state College Board gave initial approval in December to policy changes that would reduce how much warning time is required to fire tenured and tenure-track professors for financial reasons.
There’s even in a bill in the Legislature [...]
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January 29, 2010
Mississippi
ELIZABETH CRISP @ Clarion Ledger
Higher education leaders assured a room packed Thursday with supporters of Mississippi’s historically black universities that there is little support for a merger of the three schools.
“Based on private conversations that we’ve had with members of the Legislature as well as many public comments that we’ve seen by members of the [...]
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