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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, April 30, 2007

JACKSON - The state College Board has hired former University of Southern Mississippi President Horace Fleming as a part-time consultant.
Higher Education Commissioner Tom Layzell said Thursday that Fleming will work for the College Board and not be based on the USM campus in Hattiesburg.
Layzell said Fleming would be asked to help in a number of areas but specifically would assist USM with fund-raising and other university programs.
Fleming will be paid $150,000 on a contract that runs from Oct. 1 through June 30, 2002, Layzell said.
Layzell said allowing Fleming to choose where he sets up his office would give the former president more flexibility than remaining at USM.
Fleming resigned in July rather than accept the board's offer to remain as president for one more year, saying he didn't want to stay in limbo. Presidents normally get four-year contracts.
One day before he left office Aug. 31, Fleming criticized the way the board evaluated his presidency.
Fleming received $150,000 in state salary and $50,000 from the private USM Foundation while president.
College Board officials generally pay former presidents 75 percent of their state salary if they are reassigned to full-time positions within the university system. Since Fleming's position will be part time, that percentage did not apply.
On Sept. 1, Aubrey Lucas came out of retirement to succeed Fleming as interim president. Lucas, USM president from 1975 to 1996, served in recent years as a higher education professor at USM.
STEVEN A. McCALEB