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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 University for Women’s Dr. M. Hunter Manasco aims to help students understand all the ways communication is affected by anatomy via his newly published textbook, “Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology of Speech, Language, and Hearing.” “This is an undergraduate level textbook on the anatomy and physiology of all parts…

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On Thursday, Oct. 26. Mississippi University for Women’s Forum Series hosted by the Gordy Honors College welcomes Margaret Renkl, author and contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear each Monday. Renkl will discuss her new book, “The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year,” which offers…

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Katy Simpson Smith Novelist Katy Simpson Smith returns as the keynote author at the 35th annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Oct. 19-21 with her fourth novel, “The Weeds,” a meditation on the lives of two women from two centuries as they catalogue the flora of the Roman Colosseum. A Jackson…

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