Members of the State Institutions of Higher Learning prepare to listen to people in the audience in Hattiesburg about what they want in the new president of the University of Southern Mississippi.

University of Southern Mississippi students, faculty and alumni are unified in wanting a new school president who is an expert at fundraising and recruiting and who can advocate for all people on the campus.

Those were the main topics that came forward from a listening session sponsored by the state Institutions of Higher Learning, which is beginning it search to replace Rodney Bennett, Ph.D., who stepped down on July 15.

Joe Paul, Ph.D., took the reigns as interim president of Southern Miss on July 16. Earlier this year, Bennett announced his plans to step down from the university before the end of his contract.

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