OXFORD, Miss. – The student teaching experience for University of Mississippi education majors has become a little easier, thanks to a new support program and its generous benefactors. Every education major getting ready to begin their student teaching gets an Essential Education Kit, which was created to provide student teachers with school supplies and gasRead the story …
Essential Education Kits Providing Support for Student Teachers
Donations fund school supplies, gas cards for future educators
March 30, 2022 by
Engineering the Future
Couple hopes gift will increase number of female engineers
March 26, 2022 by
OXFORD, Miss. – With a $100,000 gift to the University of Mississippi School of Engineering, Stephen and Patty Foose want to provide scholarships to civil engineering students whose background, achievements and experience demonstrate a commitment to contributing to the advancement of women in engineering. The couple established the Stephen and Patty Foose Civil Engineering ScholarshipRead the story …
Dowling Named University’s Top Online Instructor
Award winner to speak at 'Toolbox Talks' virtual event on March 23
March 21, 2022 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Following a global pandemic, online learning has seen tremendous growth at higher education institutions across the nation. At the University of Mississippi, faculty members are developing unique and innovative ways to support virtual instruction. The UM Office of Academic Outreach, which houses Ole Miss Online, presents the Paragon Award for Excellence inRead the story …
Supporting Future Mississippi Teachers
Baileys create scholarship in Ole Miss School of Education
March 19, 2022 by
OXFORD, Miss – A thank you note from a scholarship recipient inspired University of Mississippi alumni Phil and Emily Bailey to create a second scholarship – this time to support future teachers. The Phillip J. and Emily G. Bailey Education Scholarship will support entering freshmen in the School of Education who intend to teach inRead the story …
Jim Weatherly to Posthumously Receive Inaugural UM Medal for the Arts
Alumnus to be recognized for his songwriting contributions April 21 at Ford Center
March 14, 2022 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The late renowned songwriter and University of Mississippi alumnus Jim Weatherly will be honored with the university’s inaugural Medal for the Arts in an April 21 presentation on campus. In partnership with the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics and the College of Liberal Arts, the UM Department of Music will recognize Weatherly’s legacyRead the story …
Alumnus Finds ‘Win-Win’ to Support University Libraries
Wayne Drinkwater follows examples of former professors and mentors
March 12, 2022 by
OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi alumnus Wayne Drinkwater is eager to see his alma mater attract the nation’s top educators to its faculty, a goal he believes begins with enhancing the university’s libraries. “To attract faculty members and graduate students who are ambitious in their fields, we need to show them we have strongRead the story …
Scholarship Recipients Carry on Late MBA Student’s Legacy
Endowment honoring Zach McClendon has served students, young alumni well
March 7, 2022 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Zach McClendon had just completed his first semester as a Master of Business Administration student at the University of Mississippi in fall 2013 when he was killed during a robbery at his home. In 2016, the university’s MBA board of directors worked with the UM Foundation to establish the Zach McClendon MemorialRead the story …
Gift to Law School Expands Family Legacy
Alumnus Helene Thompson hopes donation can help enhance classes and bring in experts
March 5, 2022 by
OXFORD, Miss. – For Helene Thompson and those close to her, the University of Mississippi‘s School of Law has become something of a familial rite of passage. Thompson, a 1968 graduate of the school, has established the Thompson Family Law Endowment, with an initial gift of $100,000. She and her late husband, Luther Thompson, metRead the story …
Active Minds Exhibit Aims to End the Silence Around Mental Health
Student-led UM group sponsors exhibition promoting the importance of honest conversation, resources
March 4, 2022 by
OXFORD, Miss. – A national traveling exhibit designed to help prevent campus suicides is coming to the University of Mississippi on Monday (March 7). The “Send Silence Packing” display containing more than 1,000 backpacks will be in the great room of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The backpacks,Read the story …
Accomplished Alumna Edith Kelly-Green Boosts Accountancy Scholarship
Women's Council founding chair hopes to give recipients head start to success
March 1, 2022 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Edith Kelly-Green, a 2011 inductee of the University of Mississippi Patterson School of Accountancy Hall of Fame and first African American woman to become a FedEx vice president, credits her accountancy education for much of her stellar success. “I stumbled into the accountancy field as I knew nothing about the profession priorRead the story …