The Mississippi State Board for Community and Junior Colleges, known informally as the SBCJC, is a statutory coordinating board tasked with oversight of Mississippi's public community and junior colleges as part of the state government of Mississippi in the United States. The state's public university system is governed by a separate constitutionally established board known as the Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning, or IHL informally.
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—Christopher Ricks (b. 1933)
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—J. William Fulbright (b. 1905)
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—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)