Despite an 11 percent tuition increase earlier this summer, the University of Memphis has hit an all-time enrollment high of 22,864 students for the fall semester. The University of Mississippi is also boasting an all-time high enrollment with 20,824 this fall. Read the story
DM: ‘A Resistant Mind,’ what you ought to get from a liberal arts education
September 15, 2011 by
Getting into college is a game — the college admissions game. Former Yale professor William Deresiewicz spoke at the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College Fall Convocation Monday night about college students. Read the story
MPB: Ten Years After 9-11: How Much Safer?
September 14, 2011 by
Ten years ago, the American public by and large had no idea who Al-Qaeda was and what their hatred of the Western world propel them to do. That all changed instantly on the morning of 9-11-2001. MPB’s Sandra Knispel takes a look at how U.S.-focused terrorism has changed in the last decade. Listen to theRead the story …
The Dispatch: Enrollment at Mississippi universities up
September 12, 2011 by
The numbers are in, and the news is good: More Mississippi students are attending college this year, with preliminary fall enrollment figures at all-time highs for the state’s eight public universities and the headcount holding steady at East Mississippi Community College. Read the story
MBJ: Ole Miss gets $20M grant to study Gulf oil spill effects
September 8, 2011 by
The University of Mississippi has received a $20 million grant from the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative to study the long-term environmental effects of the 2010 oil spill in the gulf. Read the story
Ole Miss renovating former Walmart building
September 7, 2011 by
The University of Mississippi will spend $3.2 million to renovate space in the old Walmart building in Oxford. Read the story
NEMS360: Generations benefit from scholarship endowments
August 29, 2011 by
JACKSON – Back in the ’40s, Carl Herrin depended on two things to get him to class at the University of Mississippi: an Ole Miss sticker and his thumb. “When you don’t have a car, you just do the best you can,” said Herrin, who hitchhiked 115 miles from his home in Durant to Oxford,Read the story …
WLBT: Dining Services Expanded at Ole Miss
August 29, 2011 by
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) – The University of Mississippi is expanding campus dining options to match its enrollment growth. Read the story
MS Business Journal: UM restructures tuition for PMBA degree program
August 29, 2011 by
OXFORD — The University of Mississippi School of Business Administration, beginning this fall, is charging one rate of tuition for both resident and nonresident students in its online Professional Master of Business Administration degree program. Read the story