It was 2004, and Dr. Claudia Limbert was president of Mississippi University for Women. She strode into Dr. Suzanne Bean's office and asked her what she would do with a million dollars. The question seemed preposterous, but Limbert wasn't kidding -- a federal grant was available from the U.S. Department of Education, and Limbert wanted Bean to chase it.
Bean called her husband and told him she would be working late. Then she sequestered herself behind her desk and carefully wrote out a proposa
Carmen K. Sisson is the former news editor at The Dispatch.
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