Bill Haisten

Tulsa World Sports Columnist

As it is among the schools in the Oklahoma State University system, Langston University hosted last week’s meeting of the OSU/A&M Board of Regents.

Before they were served a good-looking lunch, board members heard an announcement from an emotional Ronald Ramming, the popular president at Connors State College. Ramming shared his plan to retire next summer.

Among the agenda items:

From Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in Miami, there was a report on enrollment.

From Connors State, there was a request for board approval of its Nursing Student Handbook.

And from Oklahoma Panhandle State in Goodwell — which, interestingly, is 15 miles closer to downtown Denver than to downtown Tulsa — there was a request for the board to approve the process of

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