Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-12
MISSISSIPPI FACES
EDUCATION BATTLE
State Institutions 0utIaWed
Over Nation Following
Political Shake-up.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW ORLEANS, January IL (N.A.
NA.).-Outlawed by the Nations lead
ind educational associations because of
an unprecedented hiring and firing of
professors IN a gigantic political up
heaval, MisSiSsippis State university
and colleges are facing battle against
heavy odds to regain lost prestige and
academic standing and to protect up
ward of 10000 innocent students.
Condemnation of the wholesale shake
up in faculties of the States colleges has
been officially voiced by accrediting or
CARNATIONS from coast to coast.
Several Hundred Changed.
The first shot in the feud was fired
more than six months ago when the
board of trustees of the University of
Mississippi, the Mississippi A. and M.
College and the Mississippi State Col
lege for Women, controlled and directed
by Gov Theodore G.. Bilbo, ordered sew
eral hundred changes in the faculties
and stats of the educational institu-
tons.
The entire faculty of the University
Law School was turned topsy-turvy.
Dean T. C. Kimbrough was denoted to
the rank of professor, and Judge Stone
DevourS was elected to head the school.
Two professors were dismissed outright.
In attempting to shake up the A. and
NJ. College staff, the trustees elected
Lee benson AS director of extension
forces, but the Federal Government,
which pays part of the expense of extern
sion work, declined to accept the new
director
Medical Dean Spurns Offer.
After being dismissed. Dean j. o.
Order of the University School of Med
tcine was asked to reaccept his posi-
ton, but he declined and joined the
faculty of Jefferson Medical College, in
Philadelphia. Others dismissed in the
upheaval had little difficulty obtaining
attractive positions.
Reaction to the upheaval was eX-
pressed in no uncertain terms by the
Nations educational accrediting organi-
cations. At its first meeting after the
shake-up the Association of State Uni
versitieS, in session on the Pacific Coast,
dropped the University of Mississippi
from membership.
The Southern Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools. meeting in
Atlanta, suspended the university, the
A, and NJ. College and the Women's
College, seriously involving credits of
the innocent students
Under the Southern Association
laws, teachers in accredited secondary
schools must meet the requirements OF
graduation from universities and COL
leges recognized by the organization.
The Association of Medical Colleges
placed the University Medical School
on probation.
Law School OutIawed.
The Association of American Law
Schools, meeting in Chicago, dropped
from its membership and outlawed the
Mississippi University Law School.
The university, A. and NJ. College,
Women's College and the Mississippi
State Teachers College we're dropped
from the eligible list of the American
Association of University Professors.
Shortly after the Southern Associa-
ton of Colleges and Secondary Schools
suspended the State colleges a group of
University Of Mississippi students burned
Gov. Bilbo in effigy.
During the steady bombardment which
has followed the shake-up Gov. Bilbo
has continued to defend his action and
that of the trustees.
only IS professors were dismissed, -
the Governor has said. THE others
fired were clerical assistants and hold
ers Of similar positions
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