Mar 26, 2015: MPB: Organizations Say Governor's College Board Appointees Lack Diversity
The organizations are sending a letter to the governor to requesting some of the appointees be replaced with graduates from historically black universities and they are circulating a petition statewide. According to Governor Phil Bryant's office, with the four new appointments, he's selected a total of eight College Board members, that includes one white women and two black men. However, none of them graduated from the state's historically black universities. Preston Lee is Vice President of the Mississippi Coalition on Black Higher Education.
The organizations are sending a letter to the governor to requesting some of the appointees be replaced with graduates from historically black universities and they are circulating a petition statewide. According to Governor Phil Bryant's office, with the four new appointments, he's selected a total of eight College Board members, that includes one white women and two black men. However, none of them graduated from the state's historically black universities. Preston Lee is Vice President of the Mississippi Coalition on Black Higher Education.