
Candice Wilder
Higher Education Reporter at Mississippi Today
higher education reporter @mstodaynews + @opencampusmedia • ohio born and corn fed • send tips 📧 : [email protected] • ✨👩🏾💻🌻💖
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3 days ago |
mississippitoday.org | Candice Wilder
Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning and Jackson State University have reached a tentative agreement to settle the months-long federal lawsuit filed by a former faculty senate president who was placed on leave pending termination last fall. The settlement would give Dawn Bishop McLin her job back as a tenured professor. McLin’s case is the latest in a series of lawsuits against the state’s college governing board and the historically Black university.
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1 week ago |
sunherald.com | Candice Wilder
House bill would cut max Pell Grant from $7,395 to $5,710 starting in 2026-27. Over 79,000 Mississippi students risk reduced aid due to eligibility changes. Part-time students face ineligibility under proposed 15-credit-hour requirement. Federal lawmakers are considering changes to a longstanding financial aid program that could impact the amount of money thousands of low-income Mississippi students and families depend on to pay for college.
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1 week ago |
mississippitoday.org | Candice Wilder
Federal lawmakers are considering changes to a longstanding financial aid program that could impact the amount of money thousands of low-income Mississippi students and families depend on to pay for college. The proposal known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — dubbed by President Donald Trump and passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in May — would reduce the maximum Pell Grant award students could receive from $7,395 to $5,710 beginning with the 2026-27 school year.
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2 weeks ago |
djournal.com | Candice Wilder |Devna Bose
A coalition of civil rights and legal organizations filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Mississippi's education boards challenging diversity, equity and inclusion policies imposed by the Legislature at public schools, colleges and universities.
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2 weeks ago |
apnews.com | Candice Wilder |Devna Bose
By CANDICE WILDER and DEVNA BOSE/Mississippi Today A coalition of civil rights and legal organizations filed a federal lawsuit Monday against Mississippi’s education boards challenging diversity, equity and inclusion policies imposed by the Legislature at public schools, colleges and universities.
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