IHL board moves litigation item to executive session and honors outgoing trustees

During its April meeting the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning board voted to move a litigation claims settlement on the legal agenda into executive session for later consideration. Legal staff said the item required executive‑session treatment; a motion to move it later into executive session was made, seconded and carried.

The board also used the session to recognize four trustees whose service was concluding: Alfred McNair, Tommy Duff, Chip Morgan and Walt Starr. Trustees presented plaques and announced a donation made on a trustee’s behalf to a local ministry. The public record included trustee recusal notations: Trustee Ogletree was recorded as recusing himself for items 3–5 on the financial agenda, and Trustee Martin was noted as recused from discussion and voting on another finance item before briefly leaving the meeting.

The chair then moved to close the open meeting to determine the need for executive session; non‑trustees were asked to leave or wait in the virtual waiting room. The board scheduled to reconvene executive session for the litigation matter.