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Gaming management courses increasingly inevitable.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 16-FEB-04 		Format: Online - approximately 853 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The Mississippi Legislature rushed to provide many millions of dollars to Howard Industries in Jones County, Nissan in Canton and Northrup Grumman in Pascagoula.

But, step-child treatment has consistently been given to one of Mississippi's leading employers and tax-paying industries. The Legislature has refused, year after year, to allow casino management courses to be offered by state colleges and universities, despite the fact that this has cost Mississippi natives the best-paying casino jobs.

That's about to change, however, because of a 2002 Mississippi Supreme Court ruling (on an issue concerning the state's two-year colleges) that upheld the Mississippi College Board as a constitutionally created body whose decisions can't be vetoed by any state agency, according to College Board member Amy Whitten.

Whitten, and other board members, say...

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