OXFORD, Miss. – The inauguration of University of Mississippi Chancellor Daniel Jones is being broadcast live Friday (April 9) on channel 99 for MetroCast cable TV subscribers.<\/p>\n
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“We are pleased to be able to offer this historic event to the public on the university’s public access channel,” said Andy Harper, UM director of media and documentary projects. “It will be rebroadcast at 9 p.m. that day on Mississippi Public Broadcasting.”<\/p>\n
Jones is to be inaugurated as the 16th chancellor at 10 a.m. in the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts. The investiture ceremony is the centerpiece of a daylong observance that focuses on community service by the university’s students, faculty and staff.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The theme, “Transformation through Service,” reflects Jones’ personal commitment to the importance of serving others as an educator and physician.<\/p>\n
“Certainly, it’s a meaningful day for me personally, but my hope is that the focus will be on the university and what we are doing as an institution to meet our mission,” Jones said. “Our university has the position of being the flagship liberal arts university for a state that has dramatic needs, so I do want us to clearly focus on what we can and should be doing to not only transform individual lives, but to transform communities, and I mean community in the broad sense of local, state, nation and world.”<\/p>\n
Formerly vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine at the UM Medical Center, Jones was named chancellor by the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning last June 15. He took office July 1, following the retirement of Chancellor Robert Khayat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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