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The Ole Miss Student Union opened on Monday morning, over ten million dollars over budget and nearly a year late. A bookstore, coffee shop and conference rooms opened for the first time since the union closed for renovations in 2016....

A section of Manning Way will close May 20-24 to continue the East Campus Electrical Modifications Project. The project requires the removal of large concrete pylons located near the intersection of Manning Way and Gertrude Ford Boulevard. The university has...

James Thomas, a sociology professor with a history of controversial social media posts, was granted tenure by the IHL Board of Trustees on Thursday. Thomas’s name was pulled from a list of 77 tenure approvals in Mississippi’s eight public universities, and...

The Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) has launched its search for a new chancellor. The board issued a call for nominations for members of the University of Mississippi Campus Search Advisory Committee as well as...

James Thomas, a sociology professor with a history of controversial social media posts, was granted tenure by the IHL Board of Trustees on Thursday. Thomas’s name was pulled from a list of 77 tenure approvals in Mississippi’s eight public universities,...

Unita Blackwell, the sharecropper who later became the first black woman mayor in the state of Mississippi and advised six U.S. presidents, died Monday at age 86. Her son Jeremiah Blackwell Jr. told Mississippi Today his mother died Monday morning...

The fourth annual Oxford Pride Week is coming to Oxford April 28-May 5, and will honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, an event that served as a catalyst for the gay liberation movement. This year's celebrations, organized by...

The university Office of Leadership and Advocacy, which among other services, offers case management teams for students who have experienced sexual assault, is being dissolved into two other offices on campus: The Ole Miss Student Union and UMatter. This change...

Mississippi legislators recently approved a pay raise for teachers, boosting teacher pay by $1,500 across the board after rejecting a proposed $4,000 raise. Students looking to teach in the state after graduation said they were disappointed in the progress. Marcie...

In September 2018, Zachary Hoefler, who would have been a sophomore this year, died from complications due to a brain tumor. Today, his memory and those of all Ole Miss students, employees and faculty who died in the past year...