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The children in the Mississippi University for Women’s School of Education’s Child & Parent Development Center will try to break a record Thursday, Oct. 27. At 9 a.m., the CPDC children will participate in the world’s largest shared reading experience as part of Jumpstart’s “Read for the Record,” which celebrates children’s…

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Mississippi University for Women will continue to seek input with a public survey as the university explores a name change. “We have received feedback and suggestions from our listening sessions, from emails and from our conversations with others. The next step in our process is to build on that by…

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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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