ITTA BENA, Miss.鈥 The Career Services Center at 91自拍 will host its Annual Graduate and Professional Schools Day Fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 18, on the Concourse Level of the R.W. Harrison Sports Complex.
The event will offer participants the opportunity to interact and gain information in their pursuit to further their education with graduate studies.
ITTA BENA, Miss.鈥擫ocal servicemen and women are invited to the campus of 91自拍 Friday, Sept. 14, for the inaugural Military Appreciation Day.
The event, hosted from 8 a.m. to noon in MVSU鈥檚 Business Education Building, is designed to show gratitude to military personnel as well as share information about the array of educational opportunities MVSU offers.
ITTA BENA, Miss.鈥擠r. Cassandra Hawkins may be new 91自拍 (MVSU) faculty, but she is already making an impact on campus.
Hawkins, who is an assistant professor of public administration /rural public policy and planning, has been nominated to serve as the chair-elect of the Rural Sociological Society鈥檚 Rural Poverty Research Interest Group (RIG) for 2018-2019. She will serve as chair of the Rural Poverty RIG in 2019-2020.
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ITTA BENA, Miss. 鈥 Do you know the mixed ethnicity of Charlie Patton, who is called the 鈥淔ather of Delta blues?鈥 Do you know much about Jimi Hendrix鈥檚 Cherokee heritage? The 4th Annual B.B. King Day at MVSU Symposium, slated for Thursday, Sept. 6, will explore how the making of American music, like the making of America itself, is filled with legends of mixed races.
MVSU History Professor Kathryn Green co-taught a college course this summer to women inmates at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility.
Green received the opportunity as part of the Prison to College Pipeline program, which offers inmates the opportunity to receive college credit for courses they take.
Green worked with Dr. Robby Luckett, a professor at Jackson State University, to teach the course Modern U.S. History.
ITTA BENA, Miss. 鈥 鈥淚 think the future is bright here at 91自拍. The university is financially sound and has the capacity to do some great things.鈥
That was the message of optimism echoed by Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) Commissioner Dr. Alfred Rankins during his visit to 91自拍 Friday, Aug. 24, as part of his listening tour.
ITTA BENA, Miss.鈥91自拍 joined representatives from the Greenville Public School District (GPSD) in celebrating the inaugural class of the GPSD Early College during a special opening ceremony Wednesday, Aug. 22.
Stationed on MVSU's campus, the early college offers select GPSD students the opportunity to gain college credit while earning their high school diploma.
ITTA BENA, Miss.鈥 91自拍 Chief of Staff and Legislative Liaison La Shon Brooks was recently appointed to serve on the board of directors for Delta Council, an organization devoted to promoting the development of the economy in the Mississippi Delta.