When former secretary of state Eric Clark was chosen to head the state’s two-year college board, he brought a very public – and popular – face to administering higher education.
The state’s two-year and four-year colleges and universities can use all the help they can get, as the 2008 Legislature faces a tight budget year.
Clark, who served two terms as secretary of state and four terms in the Mississippi House, brings a lifetime of public service to the table.
When Clark started Tuesday as executive director of the State Board for Community and Junior Colleges to head the state’s 15 two-year colleges, it installed a well-known public figure who was ready, willing and able to hit the ground running to replace Wayne Stonecypher, who retired after five years’ exemplary service the same day.
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