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Culture  |  Anne Summerhays  • 
April 22, 2022

Mississippi Equal Pay legislation signed into law

Governor Reeves was joined by Attorney General Lynn Fitch as he signed HB 770.  On Wednesday, Governor Tate Reeves signed the Mississippi Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (House Bill 770), making Mississippi the last state to adopt an equal-pay protection law. The legislation is set to go into effect on July 1, 2022. The…
Culture  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
April 22, 2022

Jackson State University only public university in Mississippi not requesting tuition increase

IHL set the FY 2023 rates at their board meeting this week noting the increases are largely due to soaring inflation.  At Thursday’s Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) Board Meeting, trustees approved a number of financial items on their agenda which included setting tuitions for all of Mississippi’s eight public universities. IHL was appropriated $411…