Terrence D. “Terry” Likes, an award-winning educator and journalist, is the new head of Mississippi State’s Department of Communication. He began his new role at MSU on Aug. 1.
Likes joins the land-grant university after serving as department chair for eight years and tenured professor at Tennessee State University. Prior to TSU, Likes taught at Western Kentucky University from 1988-2008.
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