Mississippi University for Women News

Gov. Haley Barbour didn't just present his annual executive budget Monday: He proposed remaking state government with what he termed "very significant, major, dramatic ways to reduce spending." "What I propose is to change the way we do a lot of things," he said.

Columbus was also a place of intellectual stimulation. There was always so much going on there.

Local legislators took shots at Gov. Haley Barbour with one senator saying even the governor doesn't like the budget he proposed for 2010-11. Five lawmakers met at the Mississippi Engineering Society's monthly meeting Thursday at the South Mississippi Electric Power Association building on Mississippi 42.

MUCH OF WHAT Gov. Haley Barbour is proposing in his budget simply isn't going to happen, but it surely has a lot of people, including lawmakers who will have the final say on budget cuts, thinking.

Governor Barbour created quite a stir this week when he announced drastic budget cuts in state education.

Gov. Haley Barbour's plan to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil rights past and a decades-long legal battle over the historic underfunding of those schools.

In 1997, she came to Columbus, from Murray, Ky., to teach cooking and management courses at Mississippi University for Women, where she served as founding director of the MUW Culinary Arts Institute.

Any one of Gov. Haley Barbour's three proposals to restructure every level of schooling in Mississippi would be considered the centerpiece of any gubernatorial administration's public education policy.

Some Mississippi House members say Gov. Haley Barbour's more politically sensitive budget ideas might be dead on arrival - including a proposal to merge eight universities into five.

JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says the state should consider merging some of its universities to save money.

Members of Mississippi University for Women's two opposing alumni groups are coming together to face a common enemy.

Where can you learn a new chocolate recipe, master your mom's manicotti and experience cooking in an entirely new way? At the Taste of Home Cooking School sponsored by The Brunswick Beacon.

One way or another, sweeping changes are on the way for Mississippi University for Women.

Marcie Pinson was recently named director of housing/student activities. She previously served as secretary to the vice president of student services and student recruiter.

Mississippi University for Women's Creating High Achievement in Mathematics and Problem Solving project will host a Super Saturday Workshop for Teachers, this Saturday.

Conversations about mergers and closures among the state's public universities are really nothing new.

The state College Board is taking a renewed interest in lowering textbook costs amid the system's financial crisis.

Parents of Caledonia elementary and middle school students are re-evaluating whether or not to allow their children to receive the H1N1 vaccine after nine high-school students went to the hospital Wednesday with complications from the vaccine.

With alumni divided over a name change and talk the school might be more useful as a satellite campus of another university, Mississippi University for Women faces many challenges, but local legislators agree it's an institution with a potentially bright future.

Dr. Kim Whitehead, professor of English and religious studies at Mississippi University for Women, has been named the 2009 Humanities Teacher of the Year by the Mississippi Humanities Council.