MVSU’s Hawkins to chair Rural Poverty Research Interest Group

ITTA BENA, Miss.—Dr. Cassandra Hawkins may be new Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU) faculty, but she is already making an impact on campus.

Hawkins, who is an assistant professor of public administration /rural public policy and planning, has been nominated to serve as the chair-elect of the Rural Sociological Society’s Rural Poverty Research Interest Group (RIG) for 2018-2019. She will serve as chair of the Rural Poverty RIG in 2019-2020.

MVSU history professor assists in national project

ITTA BENA, Miss.— This summer, Mississippi Valley State University history professor Dr. Kathryn Green participated in a national project to explore how philosophy and history faculty members at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) can improve the work of scholarly societies, and how the scholarly societies can improve access to the resources, professional, and academic networks they provide. 

Pi Sigma Alpha to Host Lecture on Voter Suppression

Dr. Emmitt Y. Riley III, assistant professor of political science in the Department of
Political Science at DePauw University will give a lecture on “Voter Suppression” on
March 23, 2017 in the Social Sciences Auditorium at 7 p.m.

Dr. Riley specializes in the study of African American Politics. Data on voter suppression
is a major part of his research. His work is especially relevant in addressing contemporary
debates on voter registration and voter suppression.

Turnipseed Named Mississippi’s Diversity Educator of the Year

 

 

Dr. Cassie Sade Turnipseed has worked diligently to bring, highlight and educate in the realm of diversity during her time at Mississippi Valley State.

Turnipseed’s hard work was recently recognized as the Mississippi Board of Trustees State Institutions of Higher Learning’s Diversity Committee named her as the Diversity Educator of the Year for the state of Mississippi.