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Established by the Legislature in 2010, the Educational Achievement Council annually provides benchmarks toward national educational goals for each university in the Mississippi higher educational system. The EAC report card has recently been released, detailing each university’s progress in increasing the educational attainment and skill levels of the state’s working-age…

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Mississippi Delta novelist Steve Yarbrough returns as the keynote author for the 34th annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Oct. 27-29 in Mississippi University for Women’s Poindexter Hall. Steve Yarbrough Yarbrough has received many awards for his fiction, including the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the Richard…

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National Student Transfer week, Oct. 18-21, shines a light on the achievements of more than 33% of the students that attend Mississippi University for Women. It also is an opportunity to showcase the diverse group of students that chose The W to continue their education. Matthew L. Robinson, Student Success…

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Coordinators of the Deep South Digital initiative are inviting the digitally curious to attend “Sharing Your Digital Collections,” a full-day, online workshop Friday, Oct. 21 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. “This workshop is an exciting opportunity for those of us who are interested in sharing our stories and memories…

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Mississippi University for Women graduate Bailey Howell recently had her honors project published in the journal “Integrative Organismal Biology.” Bailey Howell The article, titled “Geometric Morphometrics Reveal Shape Differences in the Toes of Urban Lizards,” was published in August and co-authored with Kristin M. Winchell and Dr. Travis Hagey, an…

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