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Alfred Rankins Jr., a state higher education administrator, speaks during a news conference on Feb. 27, 2014, in Jackson, Miss. Rankins, Jr., Mississippi’s commissioner of higher education, said nursing programs have struggled to retain faculty members because of the state's lower than average salaries for public university employees. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi nursing schools turn away students amid shortage

By Michael Goldberg - Associated Press

Alcorn State University President Alfred Rankins Jr., speaks to reporters, after he was appointed as the Mississippi's higher education commissioner, Friday, March 23, 2018, in Jackson, Miss. Rankins, the first-ever African American has been named to oversee Mississippi's eight public universities, will become higher education commissioner July 1 when Glenn Boyce retires. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Correction: Higher Education Commissioner story

By JEFF AMY and SARAH MEARHOFF - Associated Press

Rankins assumes Alcorn State presidency

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Board names Rankins as Alcorn State president

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

College Board names Alfred Rankins Jr. as its choice to be new president at Alcorn State.

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Administrator tapped to become Alcorn State leader

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press