Mississippi’s Institutions of Higher Learning board of trustees will meet at 2 p.m. Friday to discuss “a University of Mississippi personnel matter.”
The meeting, as first reported in the Clarion-Ledger, comes exactly one week since it was announced that Chancellor Dan Jones’ contract would not be renewed past Sept. 14, 2015. Since then, board vice president Alan Perry pointed at an audit from February that revealed “financial concerns” at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson despite his progress with the main Oxford campus.
The release states:
The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning will hold a special emergency called meeting on Friday, March 27, 2015, beginning at 2 p.m. to discuss a University of Mississippi personnel matter. Members of the Board may participate in the meeting via teleconference. Members of the public and media may attend the meeting in the IHL Board Room, located in the Universities Center, 3825 Ridgewood Road, Jackson, MS 39211. An Executive Session may be held in accordance with the Open Meetings Act.
On Wednesday, negotiations began between Jones, Perry and other related officials both in Jackson and Oxford. Last night, reports claim trustees offered Jones a two-year contract renewal but he would be forced to resign at the end of that term. Jones has countered with a two-year renewal culminating in a performance review and if at that time the board is still unsatisfied with his work, he will willfully resign.
Amelia Camurati is editor of HottyToddy.com and can be reached at amelia.camurati@hottytoddy.com.
