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Miss. Code Ann. § 37-101-1

Management of state institutions of higher learning

Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Jagnandan v. Giles (1976)

Most recently applied in 133 F. Supp. 3d 865 - Canon v. Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (September 2015)

Codes, 1942, § 6719; Laws, 1932, ch. 127; Laws, 1944, ch. 262, § 2.

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

The following state institutions of higher learning, namely:

The University of Mississippi;

The Mississippi State University of Agriculture and Applied Science;

The Mississippi State College for Women;

The University of Southern Mississippi;

The Delta State College;

The Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College;

The Jackson State College;

The Mississippi Valley State College;

and any other of like kind which may be hereafter established by the state;

shall be under the management and control of a board of trustees to be known as the board of trustees of state institutions of higher learning.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.