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http://www.ihl.state.ms.us/newsstory.asp?ID=440

IHL PRESS RELEASE
BOARD TO CONSIDER NEW DEGREE PROGRAMS DURING REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING

Media Contact: Annie Mitchell
Phone Number: (601) 432-6493

11/10/2006 ( )

Jackson, MS –The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) will hold its regular monthly meeting Wednesday, November 15, beginning at 8:30 a.m., in the IHL Board Room in the Universities Center, 3825 Ridgewood Road, Jackson, MS, 39211. The full Board will convene at 8:30 a.m., and will then conduct business as a committee of the whole. The Board meeting will be available for viewing via live webcast beginning at 8:30 a.m. on the IHL website, www.ihl.state.ms.us.



Various Board committees, including Educational Policies and Programs; Budget, Finance and Audit; Real Estate and Facilities; Legal; and Governance will meet as part of the Board meeting. The Board will consider new degree programs at Mississippi State University, Mississippi University for Women, the University of Mississippi, the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and the University of Southern Mississippi as part of the Educational Policies and Programs committee, among other matters. An executive session may be held in accordance with the Open Meetings Act.

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The Board will consider new degree programs at Mississippi State University, Mississippi University for Women, the University of Mississippi, the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and the University of Southern Mississippi as part of the Educational Policies and Programs committee, among other matters. An executive session may be held in accordance with the Open Meetings Act.


Does anyone know what "new degree programs" are under consideration for USM?  It would seems that massive loss of faculty in the past 5 years, a "lame-duck" president, and general post-Katrina morale issues, that the university should be in "retrenching" mode, rebuilding the programs already in disarray, and not attempting to add new ones.


Of course, I'm long gone, so my information on Hattiesburg is not all that current, and based on contacts from friends and from this board.



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If it's what I hope it is, the fuse is burning & something potentially innovative is about to splatter all over traditionalists & luddites.

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Invictus wrote:

If it's what I hope it is, the fuse is burning & something potentially innovative is about to splatter all over traditionalists & luddites.


Vic:


Do you mean the long anticipated merger between Polymer Science and Psychology into the "Department of Plastics and People"? (For short, the PP department). The departmental vision is to be "Leaders in the magic of plastic to better control human behavior!" I agree with you that this will throw the old fuddies into a tizzie! Several alternative delivery formats are under consideration at the Board this month which we do not wish to reveal at this time, lest those messy kids at the FS, AC, FC, and AAUP get their panties in an uproar. So keep it in the vault until then, willya? 


Mr. GL



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