Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning Board has selected a search firm to assist with Jackson State University’s president search from the 11 proposals submitted. The position has been vacant since May when Marcus Thompson resigned as president less than two years into his tenure.

The state’s governing body which oversees Mississippi’s eight public universities voted Thursday during executive session at its annual retreat to select Association of Governing Board of Universities and Colleges Search, an executive headhunting firm based in Washington, D.C, to assist with naming the historically Black university’s next leader.

The move is a departure from the IHL board’s usual pick, Academic Search, an executive firm they’ve used twice for past university president searches.

In 2023,

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