Arkansas State University is receiving a one million dollar gift from Mississippi County’s Wilson family. Perry Wilson, the great-great grandson of R.E. Lee Wilson, is presenting the money to the University to be used in the endowment of a faculty chair in Agricultural Business. According to a press release from Arkansas State, the goal of the money is to bring in a faculty chair that will help those who are educated in agriculture to also have business training to help in areas like marketing crops. The person selected will help shape the agri-business curriculum, as well as teach and conduct research. Planning coursework and selecting the chair is expected to take place over the next year. An agri-business curriculum is expected to be in place by the 2017 fall semester.
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