Mark Loughman

The Mississippi Methodist Hospital & Rehabilitation Center engages in the provision of medical rehabilitation programs. It treats people with spinal cord and brain injuries, stroke and other neurological and orthopedic disorders. The company was founded by Earl R. Wilson, Frank E. Hart, Sr., Hilton L. Ladner, and Jesse L. Wofford in 1975 and is headquartered in Jackson, MS.

Entergy Utility Property, Inc. engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power to retail customers. The company was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Little Rock, AR.

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Inc. provides healthcare services. The company is headquartered in Jackson, MS.

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center provides cancer patient care, research, and prevention for cancer. The firm also provides education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the publics. The company was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Pruet Oil Co. LLC explores for oil and gas.

The State National Bank of Big Spring provides personal and business banking services. It offers investment services, checking accounts, balance reporting, remote merchant deposits, and internet banking. The company was founded in 1909 and is headquartered in Big Spring, TX.

Entergy Mississippi LLC operates as an electric public utility company. It involves in electric power production; retail distribution operations; energy marketing and trading; and gas transportation. The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Jackson, MS.

Mississippi State University Foundation engages as a non-profit organization which receives, invests, and administers private support in the university. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Mississippi State, MS.

BankFirst Financial Services provides consumer and commercial banking services. The firm offers account, business, and additional services and tools. It specializes in financial institution services, international trade finance and asset based lending, commercial, residential mortgages and consumer banking services. The company was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Columbus, MS.

St. Andrew's Episcopal School operates a coeducational day school. The private company is based in Ridgeland, MS.

Entergy Nuclear, Inc. engaged in the generation of electricity from nuclear power plants. It owns and operates 10 nuclear reactors at eight sites in the northeastern and southern United States with a combined maximum output of nearly 9,000MW. The unit also provides operations and maintenance services for other utilities nuclear plants including plant decommissioning and license renewals. Entergy Nuclear, Inc. is a subsidiary of Entergy Corp. The company is located in Jackson, MS.

The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (Board) is empowered by the State Legislature (Miss. Code [1991 Supp.] § 37-129-1, et seq.) and required to establish by rules and regulations and promulgate uniform standards for accreditation of Schools of Nursing in the State of Mississippi in so far as concerns the eligibility of graduates of such schools to take the examination prescribed by law to become registered nurses authorized to practice the profession of nursing as registered nurses in Mississippi, and in so far as concerns student nurses attending such schools being eligible to participate in any of the following student nurse scholarship programs or other program of assistance now existing or hereafter established by legislative enactment. Nursing Education Loan Scholarship Program (NELS) available to junior, senior and graduate students who are pursuing a baccalaureate or higher degree in nursing: •Nursing Education Loan/Scholarship BSN (NELB) •Nursing Education Loan/Scholarship RN to BSN (NELR) •Nursing Education Loan/Scholarship Masters (NELM) •Nursing Education Loan/Scholarship Ph.D. (NELP) Nursing Teacher Stipend Program is available to NELS participants who are pursuing an advanced degree in nursing and who contractually agree that upon degree completion will teach at an accredited school of nursing in the State of Mississippi: •Nursing Teacher Stipend (NTSP-Masters) •Nursing Teacher Stipend (NTSP-Ph.D.) The Board is also required to issue to such Schools of Nursing upon an annual basis certificates of accreditation as may be proper under such standards. The Board, in recognizing that each unit in nursing offering nursing degree programs has individual characteristics and goals, maintains that each shall implement its own philosophy, purposes, and objectives. All programs in nursing shall be based on sound educational principles under the guidance of a competent faculty. The total program of nursing education shall meet the required standards of accreditation as prescribed by the Board. Mississippi nursing schools (units in nursing) should prepare students for nursing careers according to the type of program that they offer. Rigid conformity to a specific and fixed curriculum is not expected. Rather, the Board approves programs which are of superior caliber and encourages creative and intelligent experimentation based on sound principles.