COCHRAN STATEMENT ON INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING
SELECTION OF HANK BOUNDS AND DAN JONES

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) today applauded the selection of Dr. Hank Bounds as preferred candidate for Commissioner of the Institutions of Higher Learning and Dr. Dan Jones as preferred candidate for the position of Chancellor of the University of Mississippi.  Statements from Cochran are below.
 
“Dan Jones has done exceptional work as Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.  He has been an effective leader, and I am confident that he will be successful in his new role as Chancellor of the University of Mississippi.”
 
“I am pleased that Hank Bounds has been chosen to lead Mississippi’s Institutions of Higher Learning as its next Commissioner.  Dr. Bounds has been an innovative and visionary leader as our State Superintendent.  Mississippi’s universities will benefit from his leadership.”

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