IHL board president calls presidential search at USM a ‘sacred’ responsibility

Roughly 400 people gathered on campus Monday to discuss the qualities they want to see in USM's next president.

by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today October 4, 2022 HATTIESBURG – The auditorium grew quiet as members of the Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees waited for people in the audience to take the mic at the University of Southern Mississippi.  Tom Duff – a USM alumnus, one of the wealthiest Mississippians and this year’s president of the IHL board – broke the silence. “This is kind of like church,” he quipped from the stage of the Joe Paul Theater.

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