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Shad White speaks at the Westin Jackson Tuesday, November 5, 2019. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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‘Pet-a-puppy’ event, artist lectures, and support for student veterans are all DEI efforts, according to state auditor’s report
By MOLLY MINTA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Tue,06/13/23-1:34PM , 536 Reads 8,975 Statewide
A recent report from the State Auditor Shad White’s office found that Mississippi’s eight public universities spent at least $23 million on diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives since July 2019.
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Bill Stone, a retired NEMCC speech instructor, lectures the prison class about the role of anxiety in public speaking. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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Prison education programs are primed to take off in Mississippi. Here’s what one class looks like.
By MOLLY MINTA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,06/12/23-3:56PM , 530 Reads 8,842 Statewide

In the back of the Alcorn County Correctional Facility, a regional prison in the top-right corner of Mississippi, is an ice-cold trailer.
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Carmen J. Walters speaks during a press conference at Tougaloo College's Woodworth Chapel Monday, March 18, 2019. Walters has been named Tougaloo's new president, replacing Beverly Wade Hogan who is retiring after 17 years. Credit: Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Report For America

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Yet another college president steps down, this time at Tougaloo
By MOLLY MINTA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Wed,06/07/23-4:22PM , 484 Reads 9,238 Statewide
The president of Tougaloo College, a private historically Black institution in north Jackson, is leaving at the end of this month amid growing unhappiness with her leadership, notching another name in the growing list of college presidents in Mississippi who have resigned or been fired in the last year.
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Dr. Alan Jones, associate vice chancellor for clinical affairs at UMMC, center, listens as Dr. LouAnn Woodward, vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, answers questions during a Health Affairs Committee meeting at the Universities Center in Ridgeland, Miss., Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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UMMC to shut down LGBTQ+ clinic amid political pressure
By MOLLY MINTA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,06/05/23-10:50AM , 443 Reads 7,894 Statewide
The University of Mississippi Medical Center will dissolve the LGBTQ+ clinic that came under lawmakers’ scrutiny last fall because it offered gender-affirming care like hormone therapy and puberty blockers to trans minors.
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