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Candice Wilder

Candice Wilder

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Higher Education Reporter, Mississippi Today

Jackson

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Total articles 201

  • Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws

    By Candice Wilder Verified| opencampus.org@ A state commission scrubbed academic research from a database used by Mississippi libraries and public schools — a move made to comply with recent state laws changing what content can be offered in libraries. The Mississippi Library Commission ordered the deletion of two research collections that might violate state law, a March 31 internal memo obtained by Mississippi Today shows.

    By Candice Wilder Verified · opencampus.org

    Apr. 10, 2025

  • ‘We should all be worried’: Trump order threatens funding for Mississippi’s colleges cultural centers and programming

    By Candice Wilder Verified| opencampus.org@ For nearly three decades, a little-known federal agency has provided millions of dollars in support and funding to Mississippi’s colleges and universities museums, to libraries and to cultural institutions, including the Margaret Walker and COFO Civil Rights Center at Jackson State University. In 2011, the state’s largest historically Black university’s cultural center and museum, received a $48,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Libraries Services.

    By Candice Wilder Verified · opencampus.org

    Apr. 09, 2025

  • Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws

    By Candice Wilder Verified| opencampus.org@ A state commission scrubbed academic research from a database used by Mississippi libraries and public schools — a move made to comply with recent state laws changing what content can be offered in libraries. The Mississippi Library Commission ordered the deletion of two research collections that might violate state law, a March 31 internal memo obtained by Mississippi Today shows.

    By Candice Wilder Verified · opencampus.org

    Apr. 10, 2025

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Mississippi Today

Mississippi News and Information Corporation, operating as Mississippi Today, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit digital news and information resource that aggressively and objectively covers state and local government affairs and community issues, including education, health, economic development, poverty and race, as well as Mississippi's social culture.

Ridgeland, Mississippi, United States

+1 601-533-4860

Founded: 2016