The university debuted its five-year plan to advance diversity and equity at the university on Friday, and it asserts several lofty goals, including reconciling UM’s racial history, creating programs to support underrepresented students and increasing scholarships for women and women of color. “Our leadership role in Mississippi underscores the importance of our efforts and our […]
While dates that the university will be able to begin vaccinating its students, faculty and staff remain uncertain, the University of Mississippi Vaccine Distribution and Administration Task Force announced on Friday that it is prepared to launch a campuswide vaccination program “as soon as shipments are available.” According to an email from the University of […]
The University of Mississippi will roll out its new diversity strategic plan “Pathways to Equity” today at the virtual 2021 Diversity Summit. Students involved with drafting the plan said it will address issues like UM’s racial history, the minority student experience at UM and the creation of a multicultural center on campus. According to EJ […]
For the first time since the state Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) Board of Trustees approved the implementation of a $5-per-semester student activity fee in 2015, the university will change how it allows the Associated Student Body to distribute the funds. A portion of the fee will now be dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion […]
Curtis Wilkie grew up at the University of Mississippi. As a child, he lived in a family dorm as his mother worked to earn her Master’s degree. His father served as the chief of campus police, and his great-grandfather was a student when the Civil War started. It was no shock when Wilkie decided to […]
Over the past four months, leaders of the Associated Student Body, the Black Student Union, the university chapter of the NAACP and other student organizations have regularly met with Chancellor Glenn Boyce to discuss the problems they see at the University of Mississippi and the solutions they want to implement. “The chancellor is very open […]
With Election Day just four days away, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Espy brought his campaign bus — named The Momentum — to Oxford to hold a rally and campaign against his opponent, incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, on Thursday, Oct. 29. Espy said he and his team decided to visit Oxford because it is one […]
Typically, college chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) focus their efforts on promoting social justice protests, advocating for voter registration and educating students to protect against voter suppression. While this year’s leaders of the University of Mississippi NAACP chapter agree that these efforts are important, president Demetrius Harris and […]
The last time Lafayette County residents took to the polls for the March primaries, they voted on a paperless, direct-recording electronic (DRE) system, but this November, the county will return to paper-based ballots for the first time since 2007. While DREs were once seen as the most accessible, high-tech voting machine option, concerns about their […]
With Oxford’s continued mask mandate and restrictions on in-person gatherings on campus, the University of Mississippi’s 2020 Homecoming Week has become a reminder of all the ways the world has changed. Instead of its usual daily events, floats and celebrations, the Student Activities Association has worked through COVID-19 restrictions and safety measures to plan a […]
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