OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi Center for Excellence in Literacy Instruction is celebrating its 11th school year of successful partnership with Dundee Elementary School in Tunica. Each year, CELI literacy specialists work with Dundee faculty to ensure the more than 200 students at the P-5 school are proficient readers by the end of third grade.Read the story …
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Literacy Center Celebrates 11-Year Partnership with Delta School
Dundee Elementary benefits from the support of UM School of Education
January 13, 2020 by
‘Americans and the Holocaust’ Traveling Exhibition Coming to UM
Touring library display to arrive in Oxford in 2021
October 30, 2019 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The J.D. Williams Library at the University of Mississippi is one of 50 U.S. libraries selected to host “Americans and the Holocaust,” a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped American responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930sRead the story …
Outstanding Freshmen Join Innovative Teacher Education Program
Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program admits 28 at UM
September 5, 2019 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi has welcomed 28 outstanding freshmen from eight states into the Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program. The seventh cohort of this innovative teacher education program comes with an average high school grade-point average of 3.91 and ACT score of 29.3. The new class brings the number of METP scholarship recipients atRead the story …
Helping Students Earn College Degrees
Estate gift to assist Sunflower County students at UM
July 13, 2019 by
OXFORD, Miss. – A couple defined by service to their communities has designated an estate gift for University of Mississippi scholarships, specifically for students from Sunflower County. The $300,000 planned gift from the Charitable Remainder Unitrust of the late Norma and Celian Lewis establishes an endowment, which will honor the couple in perpetuity while alsoRead the story …
UM Celebrates M Partner Pilot Year, Sets Ambitious Goals
Community, university partners build momentum to advance projects across state
March 20, 2019 by
OXFORD, Miss. – With more than a dozen ongoing community-engaged courses and service projects, University of Mississippi faculty, staff, students and community partners are leading a groundbreaking spring semester. The pilot phase of M Partner will address priority projects centered around community health and well-being, economic development, educational initiatives and beautification. All these projects haveRead the story …
University Endowment Builds to All-time High of $715 Million
Strong investment returns, generosity of alumni and friends spurs growth
August 29, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi’s permanent endowment grew in its latest fiscal year to an all-time high of $715 million, thanks in part to the seventh consecutive year of new gifts of $100 million or more. Private support totaled more than $115.8 million from 30,332 donors, giving the university essential resources to continueRead the story …
South Oxford Center Opens, Welcomes New Occupants
Nine tenants set to receive students, faculty, community in former Baptist facility
August 28, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – This month, the first occupant of the University of Mississippi’s South Oxford Center on Lamar Boulevard began moving into the space, which provides nearly 485,000 square feet of crucial space for growing programs. The site, which is the former location of Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi, was purchased last year and officially turned overRead the story …
University Announces 2018 Distinguished Alumni Awards
Alumni Association will honor recipients at Homecoming for achievement, service
July 21, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – The Ole Miss Alumni Association is honoring seven distinguished University of Mississippi alumni with its highest annual awards as part of Homecoming 2018. Inductees into the Alumni Hall of Fame for 2018 are: Thad Cochran (BA 59, JD 65) of Oxford; Howard L. Gerlach (BBA 66, MBA 77) of Fairfax, Virginia; MacRead the story …
UM Professor Leads Dinosaur Track Preservation Project
Findings from discovery and digital reconstruction of trackway site result in journal article
February 12, 2018 by
OXFORD, Miss. – A University of Mississippi geologist’s collaboration with researchers at the University of Arkansas has yielded the discovery and digital preservation of the first tracks of carnivorous dinosaurs ever found in Arkansas. Brian Platt, assistant professor of geology and geological engineering at UM, was lead author of “LiDAR-based characterization and conservation of theRead the story …
State Higher Education Literacy Council Advances Teacher Preparation
Kellogg, Hardin grants fund training for elementary reading educators
September 22, 2017 by
OXFORD, Miss. – Members of Mississippi’s Higher Education Literacy Council, a group of college and university literacy professors, are part of a statewide effort to help new teachers use cognitive and educational research in the classroom. The project is funded by a $725,450 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan, and aRead the story …