The University of Mississippi Faculty Senate passed a resolution stating its desire for student evaluations from this semester to be excluded from the conversation around each professor’s annual performance, potential promotion and tenure on April 7. This resolution came after the semester was shortened due to disruptions by Winter Storm Fern, which caused decreased instructional […]
Commencement ceremonies for graduating students at the University of Mississippi will be held from Tuesday, May 5, to Saturday, May 9. The ceremonies on Wednesday, May 6, will celebrate only graduate and doctoral students, while the rest of the ceremonies will honor undergraduate, graduate and PhD students together. The first commencement ceremony is for the […]
Associated Student Body senators voted four new open seat senators into office and confirmed 36 nominations for the other ASB branches at the ASB Formal Senate meeting at the Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union on Tuesday, April 21. Corey Kingery, Eli Keel, Paul Winfield and Ryan Ostrowski were confirmed as the new open […]
The University of Mississippi is working to establish artificial intelligence policies by tasking individual academic departments, instead of professors, with creating their own standards for AI usage in coursework. Currently, each professor sets the standard regarding AI for his or her own courses, with little uniformity throughout departments. Work creating these policies will continue into […]
The Arabic Flagship freshman cohort at the University of Mississippi will no longer be traveling to Jordan over the summer as originally planned due to safety concerns because of the conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran. Instead, the freshman cohort will be joining the graduating seniors on a trip to Morocco. Graduating seniors […]
Associated Student Body President OC Williford is hoping to use her presidency to lower costs for students, increase student success and serve the University of Mississippi student body to the best of her ability. Williford started in ASB as a legislative aid on the rules committee during her freshman year. For her sophomore year, Williford […]
University of Mississippi alum Mark Paukune donated $62,000 to establish the Paukune Undergraduate Scholarship Endowment in the UM College of Liberal Arts. The scholarship will support students with learning disabilities. The award will be given to full-time liberal arts students who have registered learning disabilities with the university’s Office of Student Disability Services. Learning disabilities […]
The first reading of an ordinance that would change the designated assembly area for large-group events or demonstrations from the Square to Bramlett Pavilion 0.9 miles away on University Avenue was postponed at the Tuesday, April 7 Oxford Board of Aldermen meeting. Oxford Police Chief Jeff McCutchen, who presented the ordinance at the meeting, requested […]
It is a man’s world — at least for the women pursuing degrees in a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) field at the University of Mississippi, despite the growing number of women in academia. As of fall 2024, 57% of the University of Mississippi students enrolled were women and 43% were men, according to […]
This year, Richard Purcell was awarded the Mississippi Humanities Council Teacher of the Year for the University of Mississippi. Purcell is the Hubert H. McAlexander Chair in English and director of the interdisciplinary minor in cinema studies. As part of the award, Purcell delivered his lecture titled “Race, Speculative Value, and Art of the Turn […]
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