The University of Mississippi Associated Student Body executive members have individual missions they seek to accomplish in the fall 2026 semester. From marketing campaigns to student-focused projects in the works for months, these elected leaders have a clear vision for how they will impact the student body. President OC Williford Williford and the executive branch […]
The University of Mississippi Departments of Student Housing, Parking and Transportation and Facilities Management are part of a much larger effort to maintain and prepare campus for student attendance. Student housing also plans specific traffic routes each year for move-in — a weeklong process that requires hundreds of university staff and volunteers for efficiency. The […]
Each academic department at the University of Mississippi will introduce its individual artificial intelligence policy this semester. AI policies are expected to be included in every course syllabus. All departments were tasked by the university in May to create department-specific AI policies. The university’s AI Task Force gave departments guidance on what, specifically, each AI […]
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 […]
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