Equity & Inclusion News

George Dor is among the recipients of the 2021 Diversity Innovator Awards, presented by the UM Division of Diversity and Community Engagement. Submitted photo

UM Professor Lectures on African Music at University of Georgia

George Dor invited as fall speaker for the Institute for African Studies NOVEMBER 10, 2017 BY ANNA HERD George W.K. Dor, professor of music at the University of Mississippi, recently delivered the...

Nobel Prize-winning author and UM alumnus William Faulkner. Photo by Robert Jordan/Ole Miss Communications

Faulkner’s Short Stories Focus of 2018 UM Common Reading Experience

Selection fulfills original goal of committee to showcase author’s work NOVEMBER 3, 2017 BY MICHAEL NEWSOM Selected short stories of a University of Mississippi alumnus and one of the most...

UM geological engineering faculty members Bob Holt, Dennis Powers and Doug Granger visit the Clinton P. Anderson overlook outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, with students during the ‘Geological Engineering Design Field Camp’ course offered through UM’s Study USA program in August. During Wintersession 2018, students will again have opportunities to travel with UM faculty members as they study biology, education, English, gender studies, hospitality management, philosophy, political science and more. Submitted photo

UM Students, Faculty Take Learning on the Road

Study USA program gearing up for hands-on Wintersession courses in four exciting locales OCTOBER 18, 2017 BY PAM STARLING Whether students are capturing biological field samples in nature or capturing...

Co-directors Otis Pickett (back row, left) and Patrick Alexander (back row, right) with 16 graduates of the summer 2016 Prison-to-College Pipeline course at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. Submitted photo/Mississippi Department of Corrections

Prison-to-College Pipeline Program Helps Participants Build Futures

UM-Mississippi College partnership supports pursuit of college education at correctional facilities JULY 31, 2017 BY EDWIN SMITH A partnership between the University of Mississippi and Mississippi...

MOST Conference Provides Resources, Guidance for Potential Students

More than 400 rising high school seniors attended the annual UM recruiting and empowerment event JULY 25, 2017 BY EDWIN SMITH More than 400 students attended the 2017 Mississippi Outreach to...