A invoice that was thought to threaten a number of HBCUs in Mississippi didn’t go within the state’s legislature. John Polk, sponsor of controversial SB 7526, needed to make that a lot clearer.
“Please everybody get that message out,” Polk informed the Clarion-Ledger. “The chair has killed my invoice. That means, I can sleep at night time.”
The invoice was launched final month to the Senate Faculties and College Committee that may have led to a few of the state’s 9 universities shutting down. Three of these establishments are HBCUs — Alcorn State College, Jackson State College, and Mississippi Valley State College.
As a substitute, SB 7525 moved out of committee, which can examine the “effectivity” of these universities.
“We had hearings earlier this 12 months the place we had been issues, and we now have a variety of information and data that was introduced and that was concerning the enrollment cliff that we’re seeing throughout the nation, and the way that may influence our Mississippi universities,” UC Chair and invoice sponsor Sen. Nicole Boyd, R-Oxford, informed the committee Monday on the Mississippi Capitol. “We’ve seen declining enrollments at smaller universities, we’ve seen rising enrollments at a few of our different universities. This might give us a chance to have a look at that over the summer season with the duty pressure.”
Mississippi Valley State at the moment has the bottom complete enrollment with just below 2,200 college students.
