The Senate is also slated to address its own DEI ban legislation, University and Colleges Chairwoman Nicole Boyd, R-Oxford, told the Clarion Ledger after the House vote. Boyd, who was present in the ...

Three weeks in, the change the Trump administration has brought is a disruption of the federal government on an unprecedented ...

Dr. Xiaodan Gu, an associate professor in the School of Polymer Science and Engineering at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM), has been named one of 400 scientists and engineers nationwide ...

The bill, which would establish the University System Efficiency Task Force, also aims to evaluate declining enrollment.

Senate Education Chairman Dennis DeBar, R-Leakesville, has gone on the record several times as an opponent of expanding school choice in Mississippi, and he has advanced legislation to remove ...

Anna Dawson, of Scottsboro, was named to the University of Mississippi’s Fall 2024 Honor Roll lists. Dawson, in the B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences program, was named to the Chancellor’s Honor Roll, ...

A bill designed to help less fortunate students is generating controversy. House Bill 1433, which was authored by State Rep.

Dunleavy said before the start of this year’s session he is willing to consider a permanent increase of up to $200 million in education funding if legislators are willing to support his policy goals.

Americans’ health has long been unequal, but a new study shows that the disparity between the life expectancies of different populations has nearly doubled since 2000.

As the Center for American Progress has noted, “the federal government has hired Black Americans at higher rates than the private sector going back a century or more.” ...

The cheapest small towns might not be for everyone, but their charms can make them the best places to live for plenty of ...

“As long as we have these really severe disparities, we’re going to have this very low life expectancy,” said Kathleen Harris ...