Delta State University President William N. LaForge recently received the distinct honor of being named to the Mississippi Top 50 list for 2017.<\/p>\n
The annual awards, which started in 2016, recognize those who are judged to be the most influential leaders in the state. Additionally, the awards recognize those who help, by virtue of their position and talent, to move the conversation in Mississippi forward.<\/p>\n
This bipartisan selection of leaders comes from the ranks of elected and appointed officials, economic development professionals, business, media and government affairs. The program is sponsored by Y\u2019all Politics and Supertalk Mississippi, and awardees are nominated through an open process.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very grateful to Y\u2019all Politics and Supertalk Mississippi for this recognition,\u201d said LaForge. \u201cIf there is anything to the issue of influence, I owe it to, and share it with, my colleagues at Delta State who make up a super team of faculty, staff and administrators who are devoted to our students.\u201d<\/p>\n
LaForge and other awardees will be honored at a ceremony at The Old Capitol Inn in Jackson, Mississippi on Oct. 17.<\/p>\n
To view award winners for the previous two years, visit http:\/\/mstop50.com\/winners<\/a>. Follow MSTop50 on Twitter\u00a0@MSTop50<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0to keep up with news and updates about MSTop50 winners and events.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Delta State University President William N. LaForge recently received the distinct honor of being named to the Mississippi Top 50 list for 2017. The annual awards, which started in 2016,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":77193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,108],"tags":[1803,1423],"class_list":["post-77190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-community-3","category-president","tag-mississippi-top-50","tag-president"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78334,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77190\/revisions\/78334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}