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{{Short description|Public university near Oxford, Mississippi, US}}
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{{Infobox university
| name = The University of Mississippi
| name = University of Mississippi
| image_name = University of Mississippi seal.svg
| image = University of Mississippi seal.svg
| image_upright = 0.72
| image_size = 150
| established = {{start date and age|February 24, 1844}}<!--Please do NOT change this date. 1848 is NOT correct.-->
| established = 1848
| motto = ''Pro scientia et sapientia'' ([[Latin]])
| motto = ''Pro scientia et sapientia'' ([[Latin language|Latin]])
| mottoeng = For knowledge and wisdom
| mottoeng = "For knowledge and wisdom"
| logo = University of Mississippi logo.svg
| type = [[State university system|Public]]<br />[[Flagship]]<br />[[Sea-grant]]<br />[[Space-grant]]
| logo_upright = 1.0
| academic_affiliations = [[Oak Ridge Associated Universities|ORAU]]<br />[[Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities|APLU]]<br />[[Southeastern Universities Research Association|SURA]]
| type = [[Public university|Public]] [[research university]]
| chancellor = Larry Sparks (interim)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.olemiss.edu/ihl-board-trustees-appoints-um-vice-chancellor-serve-interim-chancellor/|title=IHL: Board of Trustees appoints UM Vice Chancellor to serve as Interim Chancellor|website=University of Mississippi News}}</ref>
| chancellor = [[Glenn Boyce]]
| city = [[University, Mississippi|University]]
| provost = Noel E. Wilkin
| state = [[Mississippi]]
| city = [[Oxford, Mississippi|Oxford]]
| country = U.S.
| state = [[Mississippi]]
| coor = {{Coord|34.365|N|89.538|W|region:US-MS_type:edu_dim:2000|display=inline,title}}
| campus = Remote town<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Mississippi&s=all&id=176017 |title=IPEDS-University of Mississippi |access-date=December 30, 2023 |archive-date=December 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231230172011/https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Mississippi&s=all&id=176017 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| campus = [[Rural]] (small [[college town]]) 2,000+ acres
| campus_size = {{cvt|3497|acre|km2}}
| faculty = 871
| students = 24,710 (for 2023-2024 year)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://irep.olemiss.edu/fall-2023-2024-enrollment/ |title=Office of Institutional Research, Effectiveness, and Planning &#124; Fall 2023-2024 Enrollment }}</ref>
| students = 23,258 (fall 2017)<ref name="factbook1"/>
| endowment = $840 million (2023)
| endowment = $715 million (2018)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.olemiss.edu/university-endowment-builds-time-high-715-million/ |title=University Endowment Builds to All-time High of $715 Million - Ole Miss News|website=Ole Miss News}}</ref>
| budget = $670 million (2024)<ref>https://adminfinance.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/74/2023/11/Revenues-and-Expenditures.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240213220741/https://adminfinance.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/74/2023/11/Revenues-and-Expenditures.pdf |date=February 13, 2024 }} {{Bare URL PDF|date=August 2024 }}</ref>
| budget = $2.448 billion (2016)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://olemiss.edu/aboutum/facts.html |title= About UM: Facts - University of Mississippi|website=The University of Mississippi Facts & Statistics}}</ref>
| nickname = [[Ole Miss Rebels|Rebels]]
| sports_nickname = [[Ole Miss Rebels|Rebels]]
| sporting_affiliations = [[NCAA Division I]] – [[Southeastern Conference|SEC]]
| sporting_affiliations = {{hlist|[[NCAA Division I]] [[NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision|FBS]] – [[Southeastern Conference|SEC]]|[[Patriot Rifle Conference|PRC]]}}
| website = {{URL|www.olemiss.edu|olemiss.edu}}
| colors = Cardinal red, navy blue<ref>{{cite web|title=Licensing FAQ's|url=http://csm.olemiss.edu/licensing/|publisher=Department of Licensing–University of Mississippi|accessdate=July 11, 2016}}</ref><br>{{color box|#C8102E}}&nbsp;{{color box|#13294B}}
| website = {{url|www.olemiss.edu}}
| logo = University of Mississippi logo.svg
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The '''University of Mississippi''' ([[Epithet|byname]] '''Ole Miss''') is a [[Public university|public]] [[research university]] in [[Oxford, Mississippi]], United States, with a [[University of Mississippi Medical Center|medical center]] in [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]]. It is Mississippi's oldest public university and is the state's largest by enrollment.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Journal |first=BLAKE ALSUP Daily |title=MSU, USM see increased enrollment as state numbers decline |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-mississippi-2440 |access-date=January 15, 2022 |website=Daily Journal |language=en |archive-date=January 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220115023522/https://www.djournal.com/news/education/msu-usm-see-increased-enrollment-as-state-numbers-decline/article_91c6b17e-ce1d-58e8-8402-d937ecdf7613.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
'''The University of Mississippi''' (colloquially known as '''Ole Miss''') is a [[Public university|public]] [[research university]] in [[Oxford, Mississippi]]. Including the [[University of Mississippi Medical Center]] in [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]], it is the state's largest university by enrollment.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://irep.olemiss.edu/fall-2017-2018-enrollment/|title=Office of Institutional Research, Effectiveness, and Planning {{!}} fall-2017-2018-enrollment|website=irep.olemiss.edu|language=en-US|access-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref> The university was chartered by the [[Mississippi Legislature]] on February 24, 1844, and four years later admitted its first enrollment of 80 students. The university is classified as an "R1: Doctoral University—Very High Research Activity" by the [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|Carnegie Foundation]] and has an annual [[Research|research and development]] budget of $121.6 million.<ref name="Washington Post 2016">{{cite web | title=In new sorting of colleges, Dartmouth falls out of an exclusive group | website=Washington Post | date=February 4, 2016 | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/02/04/in-new-sorting-of-colleges-dartmouth-falls-out-of-an-exclusive-group/ | access-date=June 9, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=176017|title=The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|publisher=Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research|date=2017|accessdate=November 3, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?print=true&method=rankingBySource&ds=herd|title=Rankings by total R&D expenditures|last=National Science Foundation|first=|date=|website=|access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820082334/https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?print=true&method=rankingBySource&ds=herd|archive-date=August 20, 2018|dead-url=yes|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The university ranked 145 in the 2018 edition of the US News Rankings of Best National Universities.<ref name="Profile, Rankings and Data 2017">{{cite web | title=How Does University of Mississippi Rank Among America's Best Colleges? | website=Profile, Rankings and Data | date=October 3, 2017 | url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-mississippi-2440 | access-date=June 9, 2018}}</ref>


The [[Mississippi Legislature]] chartered the university on February 24, 1844, and in 1848 admitted its first 80 students. During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], the university operated as a [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] hospital and narrowly avoided destruction by [[Ulysses S. Grant]]'s forces. In 1962, during the [[civil rights movement]], [[Ole Miss riot of 1962|a race riot]] occurred on campus when [[Racial segregation in the United States|segregationists]] tried to prevent the enrollment of African American student [[James Meredith]]. The university has since taken measures to improve its image. The university is closely associated with writer [[William Faulkner]] and owns and manages his former Oxford home [[Rowan Oak]], which with other on-campus sites [[Barnard Observatory]] and [[Lyceum–The Circle Historic District]], is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].
Across all its campuses, the university comprises some 23,258 students.<ref name="factbook1">{{Cite web|url=https://news.olemiss.edu/um-welcomes-new-returning-students-fall-semester/|title=UM Welcomes New and Returning Students for Fall Semester|last=Ole Miss News|first=|date=|website=|access-date=}}</ref> In addition to the main campus in Oxford and the medical school in Jackson, the university also has campuses in [[Tupelo, Mississippi|Tupelo]], [[Booneville, Mississippi|Booneville]], [[Grenada, Mississippi|Grenada]], and [[Southaven, Mississippi|Southaven]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/regional/|title=The University of Mississippi Regional Campuses|website=www.outreach.olemiss.edu|access-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref> About 55 percent of its undergraduates and 60 percent overall come from Mississippi, and 23 percent are minorities; international students respectively represent 90 different nations.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://olemiss.edu/aboutum/facts.html|title=The University of Mississippi Facts and Statistics|publisher=University of Mississippi|date=January 15, 2016}}</ref> It is one of the 33 colleges and universities participating in the [[National Sea Grant Program]] and a participant in the [[National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program]].<ref name="NASA 2015">{{cite web | title=National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program | website=NASA | date=July 28, 2015 | url=http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/spacegrant/home/index.html | access-date=June 9, 2018}}</ref>


Ole Miss is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] as "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". It is one of 33 institutions participating in the National Sea Grant Program and also participates in the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program. Its research efforts include the National Center for Physics Acoustics, the National Center for Natural Products Research, and the Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research. The university operates the country's only federally contracted [[Food and Drug Administration]] (FDA)-approved cannabis facility. It also operates interdisciplinary institutes such as the [[Center for the Study of Southern Culture]]. Its athletic teams compete as the [[Ole Miss Rebels]] in the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]]'s (NCAA) [[NCAA Division I|Division I]] [[Southeastern Conference]].
Ole Miss was a center of activity during the [[Civil rights movement|American civil rights movement]] when a [[Ole Miss riot of 1962|race riot]] erupted in 1962 following the attempted admission of [[James Meredith]], an [[African Americans|African-American]], to the [[Racial segregation in the United States|segregated]] campus.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2012/10/01/161573289/integrating-ole-miss-a-transformative-deadly-riot|title=Integrating Ole Miss: A Transformative, Deadly Riot|work=NPR.org|access-date=2018-07-09|language=en}}</ref> While the university was successfully integrated that year, the use of [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] symbols and motifs has remained a controversial aspect of the school's identity and culture.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/us/ole-miss-confederacy.html|title=Ole Miss Edges Out of Its Confederate Shadow, Gingerly|access-date=2018-07-09|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2014/10/25/358871799/ole-miss-debates-campus-traditions-with-confederate-roots|title='Ole Miss' Debates Campus Traditions With Confederate Roots|work=NPR.org|access-date=2018-07-09|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/confederacy-still-haunts-campus-ole-miss-n820881|title=The Confederacy still haunts the campus of Ole Miss|work=NBC News|access-date=2018-07-09|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://wreg.com/2017/08/16/ole-miss-to-change-building-name-add-plaques-to-give-confederate-context/|title=Ole Miss to change building name, add plaques to give Confederate context|date=2017-08-16|work=WREG.com|access-date=2018-07-09|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://a.espncdn.com/page2/s/caple/030916.html|title=ESPN.com - Page2 - Mississippi's mascot mess|website=a.espncdn.com|access-date=2018-07-09}}</ref> In response the university has attempted to take proactive measures to rebrand its image, including effectively banning [[Modern display of the Confederate flag|the display of Confederate flags]] in [[Vaught–Hemingway Stadium|Vaught-Hemingway Stadium]] in 1997, officially abandoning the [[Colonel Reb]] mascot in 2003, and removing "[[Dixie (song)|Dixie]]" from the [[The Pride of the South|Pride of the South]] marching band's repertoire in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9710/25/ole.miss/|title=CNN - Flag ban tugs on Ole Miss traditions - October 25, 1997|website=www.cnn.com|access-date=2018-07-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/us/20mascot.html|title=Ole Miss Shelves Mascot Fraught With Baggage|last=Brown|first=Robbie|access-date=2018-07-09|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.msnewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=1478331&nav=2CSfITZj|title=Ole Miss is Without a Mascot|access-date=2018-07-09|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180709153623/http://www.msnewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=1478331&nav=2CSfITZj|archive-date=July 9, 2018|dead-url=yes|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 2018, following a racially charged rant on social media by an alum and academic building namesake, former Chancellor [[Jeffrey Vitter]] reaffirmed the university's commitment to "honest and open dialogue about its history", and in making its campuses "more welcoming and inclusive".<ref name="Ryback 2017">{{cite web | last=Ryback | first=Timothy W. | title=What Ole Miss Can Teach Universities About Grappling With Their Pasts | website=The Atlantic | date=September 19, 2017 | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/09/what-ole-miss-can-teach-universities-about-grappling-with-their-pasts/540324/ | access-date=June 12, 2018}}</ref>

The [[List of University of Mississippi alumni|university's alumni, faculty, and affiliates]] include 27 [[Rhodes Scholars]], 10 [[Governor (United States)|governors]], 5 [[United States Senate|US senators]], a [[head of government]], and a [[Nobel Prize Laureate]]. Other alumni have received accolades in the arts such as [[Emmy Awards]], [[Grammy Awards]], and [[Pulitzer Prizes]]. Its [[University of Mississippi Medical Center|medical center]] performed the first human lung transplant and [[Xenotransplantation|animal-to-human heart transplant]].


==History==
==History==
{{Main|History of the University of Mississippi}}


===Founding, expansion, and tradition===
===Founding and early history===
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[[File:Olemisslyceum.jpg|thumb|right|The Lyceum, [[William Nichols (architect)|William Nichols]], architect (1848)]]
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[[File:The Dead House, University of Mississippi (circa 1937).jpg|thumb|right|The "Dead House" was built before the Civil War and was used as a morgue during the war. Bodies were carried from the Dead House across campus to the Civil War Cemetery, which contains more than 430 graves. The building was demolished in 1958, and Farley Hall--which contains the Meek School of Journalism and New Media--was erected in its place.<ref>{{cite web |last=Steube|first=Christina|title=Some Older Areas of Campus Have a Spooky Past|publisher=The University of Mississippi|date=October 31, 2014 |url=http://news.olemiss.edu/haunted-history/}}</ref>]]
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| alt1 = Frederick A. P. Barnard, a spectacled and bearded man
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| alt2 = The Lyceum in 1861
| footer = [[Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard|Frederick A. P. Barnard]], the last [[Antebellum South|antebellum]] chancellor, and the [[Lyceum (Mississippi)|Lyceum]] in 1861
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The [[Mississippi Legislature]] chartered the University of Mississippi on February 24, 1844<!---DO NOT CHANGE THIS DATE!!!-->.<ref name="Fowler 1941, p. 213">[[#Fowler|Fowler (1941)]], p. 213.</ref> Planners selected an isolated, rural site in [[Oxford, Mississippi|Oxford]] as a "sylvan exile" that would foster academic studies and focus.<ref name="cohodas5">[[#Cohodas|Cohodas (1997)]], p. 5.</ref> In 1845, residents of [[Lafayette County, Mississippi|Lafayette County]] donated land west of Oxford for the campus and the following year, architect [[William Nichols (architect)|William Nichols]] oversaw construction of an academic building called the [[The Lyceum (Mississippi)|Lyceum]], two dormitories, and faculty residences.<ref name="Fowler 1941, p. 213"/> On November 6, 1848, the university, offering a [[Classics|classical]] curriculum, opened to its first class of 80 students,<ref name="cohodas5"/><ref name="history"/> most of whom were children of elite slaveholders, all of whom were white, and all but one of whom were from Mississippi.<ref name="cohodas5"/><ref>{{cite news|last=Andrews|first=Becca|date=July 1, 2020|title=The Racism of "Ole Miss" Is Hiding in Plain Sight|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/racism-university-mississippi-nickname-ole-miss-confederate-history-elma-meeks/|work=Mother Jones|access-date=August 1, 2021|archive-date=July 9, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709002552/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/racism-university-mississippi-nickname-ole-miss-confederate-history-elma-meeks/|url-status=live}}</ref> For 23 years, the university was Mississippi's only public institution of higher learning<ref>{{cite web|title=History|url=http://www.olemiss.edu/info/history.html|publisher=University of Mississippi|access-date=December 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404053703/http://www.olemiss.edu/info/history.html|archive-date=April 4, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> and for 110 years, its only comprehensive university.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/university-of-mississippi-main-campus/?sh=1210fd8365a7|title=University of Mississippi Main Campus|website=Forbes|access-date=June 28, 2021|archive-date=June 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629020429/https://www.forbes.com/colleges/university-of-mississippi-main-campus/?sh=1210fd8365a7|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1854, the [[University of Mississippi School of Law]] was established, becoming the fourth state-supported law school in the United States.<ref name="law">{{cite web|url=https://law.olemiss.edu/about/history/|title=History|website=School of Law|publisher=University of Mississippi|access-date=July 4, 2021|archive-date=July 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210703014433/https://law.olemiss.edu/about/history/|url-status=live}}</ref>
The Mississippi Legislature chartered the University of Mississippi on February 24, 1844. The university opened its doors to its first class of 80 students four years later in 1848. For 23 years, the university was Mississippi's only public institution of higher learning, and for 110 years it was the state's only comprehensive university.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olemiss.edu/info/history.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404053703/http://www.olemiss.edu/info/history.html|archivedate=April 4, 2013|title=The University of Mississippi - History|publisher=Olemiss.edu|accessdate=December 14, 2012}}</ref> Politician [[Pryor Lea]] was a founding trustee.<ref name="nrhpdocleasprings">{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=75001754}}|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Lea Springs |publisher=[[National Park Service]]|author= |date= |accessdate=June 14, 2018}} With {{NRHP url|id=75001754|photos=y|title=accompanying pictures|quote=Because of his strong interest in education it is not surprising that he was one of the co-founders of the University of Mississippi and member of its first board of trustees.}}</ref>


Early president [[Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard|Frederick A. P. Barnard]] sought to increase the university's stature, placing him in conflict with the more-conservative board of trustees.<ref name="Cohodas 1997 pp. 6">[[#Cohodas|Cohodas (1997)]], pp. 6–7.</ref> The only result of Barnard's hundred-page 1858 report to the board was the university head's title being changed to "chancellor".<ref>[[#Cohodas|Cohodas (1997)]], p. 7.</ref> Barnard was a Massachusetts-born graduate of [[Yale University]]; his northern background and [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] sympathies made his position contentious—a student assaulted his slave and the state legislature investigated him.<ref name="Cohodas 1997 pp. 6"/> Following the election of US President [[Abraham Lincoln]] in 1860, Mississippi became the second state to secede; the university's mathematics professor [[Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar]] drafted the [[Mississippi Secession Ordinance|articles of secession]].<ref>[[#Cohodas|Cohodas (1997)]], p. 8.</ref> Students organized into a military company called the "[[University Greys]]", which became Company A, [[11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment]] in the [[Confederate States Army]].<ref name="cohodas9">[[#Cohodas|Cohodas (1997)]], p. 9.</ref> Within a month of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]'s outbreak, only five students remained at the university, and by late 1861, it was closed. In its final action, the board of trustees awarded Barnard a [[Doctor of Divinity|doctorate of divinity]].<ref name="cohodas9"/>
When the university opened, the campus consisted of six buildings: two dormitories, two faculty houses, a steward's hall, and the [[Lyceum-The Circle Historic District|Lyceum]] at the center. Constructed from 1846 to 1848, the Lyceum is the oldest building on campus. Originally, the Lyceum housed all of the classrooms and faculty offices of the university. The building's north and south wings were added in 1903, and the Class of 1927 donated the clock above the eastern portico. The Lyceum is now the home of the university's administration offices. The columned facade of the Lyceum is represented on the official crest of the university, along with the date of establishment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olemiss.edu/tours/lm-text.html|title=Virtual Tours - The University of Mississippi|publisher=Olemiss.edu|date=October 1, 2006|accessdate=December 14, 2012}}</ref>


Within six months, the campus had been converted into a Confederate hospital; the Lyceum was used as the hospital and a building that had stood on the modern-day site of Farley Hall operated as its morgue.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.olemiss.edu/haunted-history/ |title=Haunted History |date=October 31, 2014 |access-date=September 9, 2022 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424203125/https://news.olemiss.edu/haunted-history/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In November 1862, the campus was evacuated as General [[Ulysses S. Grant]]'s [[Union Army|Union forces]] approached. Although Kansan troops destroyed much of the medical equipment, a lone remaining professor persuaded Grant against burning the campus.<ref>[[#Cohodas|Cohodas (1997)]], p. 10.</ref>{{efn|group=note|Chancellor Barnard's friendship with General [[William Tecumseh Sherman]] may have also helped save the campus.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 112.</ref>}} Grant's forces left after three weeks and the campus returned to being a Confederate hospital. Over the war's course, more than 700 soldiers were buried on campus.<ref name="cohodas11">[[#Cohodas|Cohodas (1997)]], p. 11.</ref>
In 1854, the university established the fourth state-supported, public law school in the United States, and also began offering engineering education.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.engineering.olemiss.edu/about/index.html|title=School of Engineering • About Us|publisher=Engineering.olemiss.edu|accessdate=December 14, 2012}}</ref>


===Post-war===
With the outbreak of the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] in 1861, classes were interrupted when almost the entire student body (135 out of 139 students) from the University of Mississippi enlisted in the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] army, forming an infantry group nicknamed the University Greys.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.civilwar.org/education/civil-war-casualties.html?referrer=https://www.google.com/|title=Civil War Casualties|accessdate=April 30, 2016}}</ref> However, all 135 students were killed during the war, a 100% casualty rate. Most died during the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg.
[[File:SarahMcGeheeIsom.tif|thumb|upright|alt=A woman in collegiate garb|The University of Mississippi was the first college in the Southeast to hire a female faculty member: [[Sarah McGehee Isom]] in 1885.]]


The University of Mississippi reopened in October 1865.<ref name="cohodas11"/> To avoid rejecting veterans, the university lowered admission standards and decreased costs by eliminating tuition and allowing students to live off-campus.<ref name="history"/> The student body remained entirely white: in 1870 the chancellor declared that he and the entire faculty would resign rather than admit "negro" students.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roland |first1=Dunbar |title=The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Volume 4 |date=December 11, 2023 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pLC0kgvJJG4C&dq=jess+stockstill+picayune&pg=PA912 |access-date=August 4, 2023 |archive-date=November 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231110200610/https://books.google.com/books?id=pLC0kgvJJG4C&dq=jess%20stockstill%20picayune&pg=PA912 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1882, the university began admitting women<ref>[[#Cohodas|Cohodas (1997)]], p. 18.</ref> but they were not permitted to live on campus or attend law school.<ref name="history"/> In 1885, the University of Mississippi hired [[Sarah McGehee Isom]], becoming the first [[Southeastern United States|southeastern US]] college to hire a female faculty member.<ref name="history"/><ref name="isom">{{cite web |url=https://sarahisomcenter.org/about-1 |title=History |website=Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 24, 2021 |archive-date=July 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724182727/https://sarahisomcenter.org/history |url-status=live }}</ref> Nearly 100 years later, in 1981, the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies was established in her honor.<ref name="history"/><ref name="isom"/>
The Lyceum was used as a hospital during the Civil War for both [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] and Confederate soldiers, especially those who were wounded at the [[battle of Shiloh]]. Two hundred-fifty soldiers who died in the campus hospital were buried in a cemetery on the grounds of the university.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://maps.google.com/maps/place?q=Confederate+Cemetery&cid=1000215249802079370|title=Confederate Cemetery - About - Google |publisher=Maps.google.com|date=|accessdate=December 14, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.civilwarcenter.olemiss.edu/cemeteries_csa.html|title=The Center for Civil War Research|publisher=|accessdate=May 29, 2015}}</ref>


The university's byname "Ole Miss" was first used in 1897, when it won a contest of suggestions for a yearbook title.<ref name="cnn">{{cite news |last=McLaughlin |first=Elliott C. |date=July 27, 2021 |title=The Battle over Ole Miss: Why a flagship university has stood behind a nickname with a racist past |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/27/us/ole-miss-university-mississippi-name-controversy/index.html |publisher=CNN |access-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-date=December 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204060212/https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/27/us/ole-miss-university-mississippi-name-controversy/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The term originated as a title domestic slaves used to distinguish the mistress of a plantation from "young misses".<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], pp. 168–169.</ref> Fringe origin theories include it coming from a diminutive of "Old Mississippi",<ref>[[#Cabaniss|Cabaniss (1949)]], p. 129.</ref><ref>[[#Eagles|Eagles (2009)]], p. 17.</ref><ref name="sansing168"/> or from the name of the "Ole Miss" train that ran from [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] to [[New Orleans]].<ref name="cnn"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Elmore |first=Albert Earl |date=October 24, 2014 |title=Scholar Finds Evidence 'Ole Miss' Train Key in Establishing University Nickname |url=https://www.hottytoddy.com/2014/10/24/scholar-finds-evidence-ole-miss-train-key-in-establishing-university-nickname/ |work=Hotty Toddy |access-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-date=October 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030185645/https://www.hottytoddy.com/2014/10/24/scholar-finds-evidence-ole-miss-train-key-in-establishing-university-nickname/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Within two years, students and alumni were using "Ole Miss" to refer to the university.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 169.</ref>
During the post-war period, the university was led by former Confederate [[general]] [[A.P. Stewart]], a [[Rogersville, Tennessee]] native. He served as Chancellor from 1874 to 1886.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/chancellor/inauguration/chancellors.html|title=2010 Chancellor's Inauguration - The University of Mississippi|publisher=Olemiss.edu|date=|accessdate=December 14, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121202013004/http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/chancellor/inauguration/chancellors.html|archivedate=December 2, 2012}}</ref>


Between 1900 and 1930, the Mississippi Legislature introduced bills aiming to relocate, close, or merge the university with [[Mississippi State University]]. All such legislation failed.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], Ch. 8.</ref> During the 1930s, the governor of Mississippi [[Theodore G. Bilbo]] was politically hostile toward the University of Mississippi, firing administrators and faculty, and replacing them with his friends<ref name="barrett23" /> in the "Bilbo purge".<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 240.</ref> Bilbo's actions severely damaged the university's reputation, leading to the temporary loss of its accreditation. Consequently, in 1944, the [[Constitution of Mississippi]] was amended to protect the university's board of trustees from political pressure.<ref name="barrett23">[[#Barrett|Barrett (1965)]], p. 23.</ref> During [[World War II]], the University of Mississippi was one of 131 colleges and universities that participated in the national [[V-12 Navy College Training Program]], which offered students a path to a Navy commission.<ref name="list-of-v-12">{{cite web |url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/Admin-Hist/115-8thND/115-8ND-23.html |title=U.S. Naval Administration in World War II |publisher=HyperWar Foundation |access-date=September 29, 2011 |archive-date=January 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112105122/http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/Admin-Hist/115-8thND/115-8ND-23.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
The university became [[coeducational]] in 1882 and was the first such institution in the Southeast to hire a female faculty member, [[Sarah McGehee Isom]], doing so in 1885.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/sarah_isom_center/aboutsarahisom.html|title=Sarah Isom Center for Women |publisher=Olemiss.edu|accessdate=December 14, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818085158/http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/sarah_isom_center/aboutsarahisom.html|archivedate=August 18, 2011}}</ref>


===Integration===
The student yearbook was published for the first time in 1897. A contest was held to solicit suggestions for a yearbook title from the student body. Elma Meek, a student, submitted the winning entry of "Ole Miss." Meek's source for the term is unknown; some historians theorize she made a diminutive of "old Mississippi" or derived the term from "ol' missus," an African-American term for a plantation's "old mistress."<ref>''The Mississippian'', May 13, 1939, "Ole Miss Takes Its Name From Darky Dialect, Not Abbreviation of State"</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=J. A.|last=Cabaniss|title= The University of Mississippi; Its first hundred years|year=1949|publisher=University & College Press Of Mississippi|isbn=978-0-87805-000-0}}p. 129</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=Charles |last=Eagles|title=The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss|year=2009|publisher=The University of North Carolina Press|isbn=978-0-8078-3273-8}}p. 17</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=David|last= Sansing|title=The University of Mississippi: A Sesquicentennial History |year=1999 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-57806-091-7}} p. 168</ref> This sobriquet was not only chosen for the yearbook, but also became the name by which the university was informally known.<ref>[http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/smc/yearbook.html ''The Ole Miss'' Student Yearbook] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001151111/http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/smc/yearbook.html |date=October 1, 2013 }}</ref> "Ole Miss" is defined as the school's intangible spirit, which is separate from the tangible aspects of the university.<ref>{{cite book|first=Frank E.|last=Everett|title=Frank E. Everett Collection (MUM00123)|year=1962|publisher=The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olemisssports.com/trads/ole-miss-trads.html|title=OLE MISS Official Athletic Site - Traditions|publisher=Olemisssports.Com|accessdate=December 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630004439/http://www.olemisssports.com/trads/ole-miss-trads.html|archive-date=June 30, 2016|dead-url=yes|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
{{Further|Ole Miss riot of 1962}}
[[File:James Meredith OleMiss.jpg|thumb|alt=James Meredith accompanied by federal officials on either side before the columns of the Lyceum|[[James Meredith]] accompanied by federal officials on campus]]


In 1954, the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S. Supreme Court]] ruled in ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' [[Racial segregation in the United States|racial segregation]] in public schools was unconstitutional.<ref>[[#Roberts|Roberts & Klibanoff (2006)]], pp. 61–62.</ref> Eight years after the ''Brown'' decision, all attempts by African American applicants to enroll had failed.<ref name="bryant60">[[#Bryant|Bryant (2006)]], p. 60.</ref><ref>[[#Cohodas|Cohodas (1997)]], p. 114.</ref> Shortly after the 1961 inauguration of President [[John F. Kennedy]], [[James Meredith]]—an African American [[United States Air Force|Air Force]] veteran and former student at [[Jackson State University]]—applied to the University of Mississippi.<ref name="cohodas112">[[#Cohodas|Cohodas (1997)]], p. 112.</ref> After months of obstruction by Mississippi officials, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Meredith's enrollment, and the [[United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice]] under Attorney General [[Robert F. Kennedy]] entered the case on Meredith's behalf.<ref name="bryant60"/><ref>[[#Roberts|Roberts & Klibanoff (2006)]], p. 276.</ref> On three occasions, either governor [[Ross R. Barnett]] or lieutenant governor [[Paul B. Johnson Jr.]] physically blocked Meredith's entry to the campus.<ref>[[#Heymann|Heymann (1998)]], p. 282.</ref><ref>[[#Roberts|Roberts & Klibanoff (2006)]], p. 288.</ref>
The university began medical education in 1903, when the [[University of Mississippi School of Medicine]] was established on the Oxford campus. In that era, the university provided two-year pre-clinical education certificates, and graduates went out of state to complete doctor of medicine degrees. In 1950, the Mississippi Legislature voted to create a four-year medical school. On July 1, 1955, the University Medical Center opened in the capital of [[Jackson, Mississippi]], as a four-year medical school. The [[University of Mississippi Medical Center]], as it is now called, is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi. It houses the University of Mississippi School of Medicine along with five other health science schools: nursing, dentistry, health-related professions, graduate studies and pharmacy (The School of Pharmacy is split between the Oxford and University of Mississippi Medical Center campuses).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.umc.edu/medical_center/overview.html|title=Overview - University of Mississippi Medical Center|publisher=Umc.edu|date=November 3, 2011|accessdate=December 14, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222200427/http://www.umc.edu/medical_center/overview.html|archive-date=February 22, 2012|dead-url=yes|df=mdy-all}}</ref>


The [[United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit]] held both Barnett and Johnson Jr. in contempt, and issued fines exceeding $10,000 for each day they refused to enroll Meredith.<ref>{{Cite news |agency=Associated Press |date=November 7, 1987 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/07/obituaries/ross-barnett-segregationist-dies-governor-of-mississippi-in-1960-s.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all |work=The New York Times |title=Ross Barnett, Segregationist, Dies; Governor of Mississippi in 1960's |access-date=May 27, 2010 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424203209/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/07/obituaries/ross-barnett-segregationist-dies-governor-of-mississippi-in-1960-s.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all |url-status=live }}</ref> On September 30, 1962, President Kennedy dispatched 127 [[United States Marshals Service|U.S. Marshals]], 316 deputized [[United States Border Patrol|U.S. Border Patrol]] agents, and 97 federalized [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] personnel to escort Meredith.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.usmarshals.gov/news/chron/2012/093012.htm |title=U.S. Marshals Mark 50th Anniversary of the Integration of 'Ole Miss' |website=U.S. Marshals Service |publisher=U.S. Department of Justice |access-date=April 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523031013/https://www.usmarshals.gov/news/chron/2012/093012.htm |archive-date=May 23, 2020 |url-status=dead }}</ref> After nightfall, far-right former Major General [[Edwin Walker]] and outside agitators arrived, and a gathering of segregationist students before the Lyceum became a violent mob.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 302.</ref><ref name="roberts292">[[#Roberts|Roberts & Klibanoff (2006)]], p. 292.</ref><ref>[[#Scheips|Scheips (2005)]], p. 102.</ref> Segregationist rioters threw [[Molotov cocktail]]s and [[Acid attack|bottles of acid]], and fired guns at federal marshals and reporters.<ref>[[#Roberts|Roberts & Klibanoff (2006)]], pp. 291–292.</ref><ref>[[#Scheips|Scheips (2005)]], p. 105.</ref> 160 marshals would be injured, with 28 receiving gunshot wounds,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rateshtari |first1=Roya |title=The U.S. Marshals and the Integration of the University of Mississippi {{!}} U.S. Marshals Service |url=https://www.usmarshals.gov/who-we-are/history/historical-reading-room/us-marshals-and-integration-of-university-of-mississippi |website=www.usmarshals.gov |date=June 17, 2020 |access-date=August 31, 2024 |archive-date=March 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329001244/https://www.usmarshals.gov/who-we-are/history/historical-reading-room/us-marshals-and-integration-of-university-of-mississippi |url-status=live }}</ref> and two civilians—French journalist [[Paul Guihard]] and Oxford repairman Ray Gunter—were killed by gunfire.<ref>[[#Wickham|Wickham (2011)]], pp. 102–112.</ref><ref name="Time"/> Eventually, 13,000 soldiers arrived in Oxford and quashed the riot.<ref>[[#Roberts|Roberts & Klibanoff (2006)]], p. 297.</ref> One-third of the federal officers—166 men—were injured, as were 40 federal soldiers and National Guardsmen.<ref name="Time">{{cite magazine |title=The States: Though the Heavens Fall |magazine=Time |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829233-5,00.html |access-date=October 3, 2007 |date=October 12, 1962 |archive-date=October 14, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014014142/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829233-5,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> More than 30,000 personnel were deployed, alerted, and committed in Oxford—the most in American history for a single disturbance.<ref>[[#Scheips|Scheips (2005)]], pp. 120−121.</ref>
Several attempts were made via the executive and legislative branches of the Mississippi state government to relocate or otherwise close the University of Mississippi. The Mississippi Legislature between 1900 and 1930 introduced several bills aiming to accomplish this, but no such legislation was ever passed by either house. One such bill was introduced in 1912 by Senator William Ellis of Carthage, Mississippi, which would have merged the college with then-Mississippi A&M.<ref>David Sansing, The History of the University of Mississippi: A Sesquicentennial History, Ch. 8</ref> However, this measure was soundly defeated, despite the bill only seeking to form an exploratory committee. In February 1920, 56 members of the legislature arrived on campus and discussed with students and faculty the idea of consolidating MS A&M, MS College of Women and Ole Miss to be located in Jackson, rather than appropriate $750,000.00 of funds requested by then-Chancellor Joseph Powers which were needed to repair dilapidated and structurally unsound buildings on the campus, which was discovered following the partial collapse of a dormitory in 1917 and a scathing review of other buildings later that same year by the state architect.<ref>David Sansing, The History of the University of Mississippi: A Sesquicentennial History, Ch. *</ref> These funds, plus an additional $300,000.00 were appropriated to the school, which was used to build 4 male dormitories, a female dormitory and a pharmacy building, which partially resolved a longstanding issue of inadequate dormitory space for students. During the 1930s, [[Governor of Mississippi|Mississippi Governor]] [[Theodore G. Bilbo]], a populist, tried to move the university to [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]]. Chancellor [[Alfred Hume]] gave the state legislators a grand tour of Ole Miss and the surrounding historic city of Oxford, persuading them to keep it in its original setting.


Meredith enrolled and attended a class on October 1.<ref>{{cite news |title=1962: Mississippi race riots over first black student |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/1/newsid_2538000/2538169.stm |access-date=October 2, 2007 |date=October 1, 1962 |archive-date=October 5, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071005031808/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/1/newsid_2538000/2538169.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> By 1968, Ole Miss had around 100 African American students,<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 321.</ref> and by the 2019–2020 academic year, African Americans constituted 12.5 percent of the student body.<ref name="demo">{{cite web |url=https://irep.olemiss.edu/fall-2019-2020-enrollment/ |title=Fall 2019-2020 Enrollment |website=Office of Institutional Research, Effectiveness, and Planning |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602214300/https://irep.olemiss.edu/fall-2019-2020-enrollment/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
During [[World War II]], UM was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the [[V-12 Navy College Training Program]], which offered students a path to a Navy commission.<ref name="list-of-v-12">{{cite web|url=http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/Admin-Hist/115-8thND/115-8ND-23.html |title=U.S. Naval Administration in World War II|publisher=HyperWar Foundation|accessdate=September 29, 2011|year=2011}}</ref>


===Recent history===
===Integration of 1962 and legacy===
[[File:Rowan Oak.JPG|thumb|alt=A white house set among trees|The university owns [[Rowan Oak]], former home of [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]]-winning writer [[William Faulkner]] and a [[National Historic Landmark]].<ref name="nrhpinv2">{{Cite journal |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: William Faulkner Home, Rowan Oak |url={{NHLS url |id=68000028}} |date=March 30, 1976 |author=Polly M. Rettig and John D. McDermott |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=July 20, 2022 }}</ref>]]
[[File:James Meredith OleMiss.jpg|thumb|right|James Meredith walking to class at the University of Mississippi, accompanied by [[United States Marshals Service|U.S. Marshals]]]]


In 1972, Ole Miss purchased [[Rowan Oak]], the former home of [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]]–winning writer [[William Faulkner]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rowanoak.com/about/history/ |title=History |website=Rowan Oak |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=March 23, 2021 |archive-date=March 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310085413/https://www.rowanoak.com/about/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Luesse |first=Valerie Fraser |date=September 25, 2020 |title=The Haunted History of William Faulkner's Rowan Oak |url=https://www.southernliving.com/travel/mississippi/rowan-oak |work=Southern Living |access-date=March 23, 2021 |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225053719/https://www.southernliving.com/travel/mississippi/rowan-oak |url-status=live }}</ref> The building has been preserved as it was at Faulkner's death in 1962. Faulkner was the university's postmaster in the early 1920s and wrote ''[[As I Lay Dying]]'' (1930) at the university powerhouse. His Nobel Prize medallion is displayed in the university library.<ref>{{cite news |last=Boyer |first=Allen |date=June 3, 1984 |title=William Faulkner's Mississippi |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/travel/1984/06/03/william-faulkners-mississippi/79c5a57b-af93-47ec-a5e5-1bebedd45468/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=March 23, 2021 |archive-date=June 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625173035/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/travel/1984/06/03/william-faulkners-mississippi/79c5a57b-af93-47ec-a5e5-1bebedd45468/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The university hosted the inaugural Faulkner and [[Yoknapatawpha County|Yoknapatawpha]] Conference in 1974. In 1980, [[Willie Morris]] became the university's first writer in residence.<ref name="history">{{cite web |url=https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/university-of-mississippi/ |title=University of Mississippi |website=The Mississippi Encyclopedia |access-date=April 29, 2021 |archive-date=August 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813102848/https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/university-of-mississippi/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
{{See also|Ole Miss riot of 1962}}
[[Desegregation]] came to Ole Miss in the early 1960s with the activities of [[United States Air Force]] veteran [[James Meredith]] from [[Kosciusko, Mississippi]]. Even Meredith's initial efforts required great courage. All involved knew how violently [[William David McCain]] and the white political establishment of Mississippi had recently reacted to similar efforts by [[Clyde Kennard]] to enroll at Mississippi Southern College (now the [[University of Southern Mississippi]]).<ref name="Funding">''The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund'' by William H. Tucker, University of Illinois Press (May 30, 2007), pp 165-66.</ref><ref name="Confederacy">{{cite book|title=Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction|editor-first1=Euan|editor-last1=Hague|editor-first2=Heidi|editor-last2=Beirich|editor-first3=Edward H.|editor-last3=Sebesta|publisher=University of Texas Press|date=2008|isbn=978-0-2927-7921-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LfWdaR9wHEEC|pp=284–285}}</ref><ref name="report">{{cite web |url=http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=135|title=Sons of Confederate Veterans in its own Civil War &#124; Southern Poverty Law Center|publisher=Splcenter.org |accessdate=December 14, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Evers">''Medgar Evers'' by Jennie Brown, Holloway House Publishing, 1994, pp. 128-132.</ref>


In 2002, Ole Miss marked the 40th anniversary of integration with a yearlong series of events, including an oral history of the university, symposiums, a memorial, and a reunion of federal marshals who served at the campus.<ref name="Byrd">{{cite news |first=Shelia Hardwell |last=Byrd |title=Meredith ready to move on |agency=Associated Press |work=Athens Banner-Herald |url=http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/092102/new_20020921041.shtml |date=September 21, 2002 |access-date=October 2, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016065534/http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/092102/new_20020921041.shtml |archive-date=October 16, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Halbfinger |first=David M. |date=September 27, 2002 |title=40 Years After Infamy, Ole Miss Looks to Reflect and Heal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/27/us/40-years-after-infamy-ole-miss-looks-to-reflect-and-heal.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 23, 2021 |archive-date=April 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423161142/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/27/us/40-years-after-infamy-ole-miss-looks-to-reflect-and-heal.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2006, the 44th anniversary of integration, a [[Statue of James Meredith|statue of Meredith]] was dedicated on campus.<ref>{{Cite news |agency=Associated Press |date=October 2, 2006 |title=Ole Miss dedicates civil rights statue |url=https://www.deseret.com/2006/10/2/19977165/ole-miss-dedicates-civil-rights-statue |work=Deseret News |access-date=July 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311211541/https://www.deseret.com/2006/10/2/19977165/ole-miss-dedicates-civil-rights-statue |archive-date=March 11, 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref> Two years later, the site of the 1962 riots was designated as a [[National Historic Landmark]].<ref name="nhlnom">{{Cite book |url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nhl/Fall07Nominations/Lyceum.pdf |title=National Historic Landmark Nomination: Lyceum |date=January 23, 2007 |first1=Gene |last1=Ford |first2=Susan Cianci |last2=Salvatore |publisher=National Park Service |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226084158/http://www.nps.gov/history/nhl/Fall07Nominations/Lyceum.pdf |archive-date=February 26, 2009 }}</ref> The university also held a yearlong program to mark the 50th anniversary of integration in 2012.<ref>{{cite news |first=Campbell |last=Robertson |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/us/university-of-mississippi-commemorates-integration.html?ref=universityofmississippi&_r=0 |work=The New York Times |title=University of Mississippi Commemorates Integration |date=September 30, 2012 |access-date=February 20, 2017 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424203136/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/us/university-of-mississippi-commemorates-integration.html?ref=universityofmississippi&_r=0 |url-status=live }}</ref> The university hosted the [[United States presidential election debates, 2008#September 26: First presidential debate (University of Mississippi)|first presidential debate of 2008]]—the first presidential debate held in Mississippi—between Senators [[John McCain]] and [[Barack Obama]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Dewan |first=Shaila |date=September 23, 2008 |title=Debate Host, Too, Has a Message of Change |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/us/24miss.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 29, 2021 |archive-date=April 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429181411/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/us/24miss.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |via=McClatchy newspapers |date=September 22, 2008 |title=Debates give University of Mississippi a chance to highlight racial progress |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/sep/22/uselections2008.race |work=The Guardian |access-date=April 29, 2021 |archive-date=April 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429181411/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/sep/22/uselections2008.race |url-status=live }}</ref>
Meredith won a lawsuit that allowed him admission to The University of Mississippi in September 1962. He attempted to enter campus on September 20, September 25, and again on September 26,<ref>[http://www.jfklibrary.org/meredith/chron_main.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091112203712/http://www.jfklibrary.org/meredith/chron_main.html|date=November 12, 2009}}</ref> only to be blocked by Mississippi Governor [[Ross R. Barnett]], who proclaimed that "...No school in our state will be integrated while I am your Governor. I shall do everything in my power to prevent integration in our schools." <ref>[https://www.successpoint.ae/campus-life/] {{URL|successpoint.ae|Success Point College|date=April 09, 2019}}</ref>


Ole Miss retired its mascot [[Colonel Reb]] in 2003, citing its Confederate imagery.<ref>{{cite news |last=Martin |first=Michael |date=February 25, 2010 |title=Ole Miss Retires Controversial Mascot |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124081743 |work=NPR |access-date=April 5, 2021 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424203206/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124081743 |url-status=live }}</ref> Although a grass-roots movement to adopt ''[[Star Wars]]'' character [[Admiral Ackbar]] of the [[Rebel Alliance]] gained significant support,<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Malinowski |first=Erik |date=September 8, 2010 |title=Ole Miss' Admiral Ackbar Campaign Fizzles |url=https://www.wired.com/2010/09/ole-miss-admiral-ackbar/ |magazine=Wired |access-date=April 5, 2021 |archive-date=January 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130212446/https://www.wired.com/2010/09/ole-miss-admiral-ackbar/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first1=Larry |last1=Hartstein |first2=Ty |last2=Tagami |date=March 1, 2010 |title=Admiral Ackbar for Ole Miss mascot spurs backlash |url=https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/admiral-ackbar-for-ole-miss-mascot-spurs-backlash/mLpbHwbEjzarKjx17EMyzN/ |work=The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |access-date=August 29, 2021 |archive-date=June 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605024512/https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/admiral-ackbar-for-ole-miss-mascot-spurs-backlash/mLpbHwbEjzarKjx17EMyzN/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Rebel Black Bear]], a reference to Faulkner's short story ''[[Go Down, Moses (book)#The Bear|The Bear]]'', was selected in 2010.<ref>{{cite news |last=Stevens |first=Stuart |date=October 31, 2015 |title=Between Ole Miss and Me |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/between-ole-miss-and-me |work=The Daily Beast |access-date=June 28, 2021 |archive-date=July 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210701193349/https://www.thedailybeast.com/between-ole-miss-and-me |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="shark"/> The Bear was replaced with another mascot, [[Tony the Landshark]], in 2017.<ref name="shark">{{cite news |date=October 6, 2017 |title=Ole Miss adopts Landshark as new official mascot for athletic events |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/20939377/ole-miss-rebels-retire-rebel-bear-mascot-replaced-landshark |publisher=ESPN |access-date=April 5, 2021 |archive-date=December 11, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211133810/https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/20939377/ole-miss-rebels-retire-rebel-bear-mascot-replaced-landshark |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Maddie |url=https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/college/ole-miss/2018/08/11/ole-miss-unveils-its-landshark-mascot-meet-rebels-day/966506002/ |title=Ole Miss unveils its Landshark mascot, a melding of Rebels history and Hollywood design |work=The Clarion Ledger |access-date=September 8, 2018 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424203207/https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/college/ole-miss/2018/08/11/ole-miss-unveils-its-landshark-mascot-meet-rebels-day/966506002/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Beginning in 2022, football coach [[Lane Kiffin]]'s dog Juice became the de facto mascot.<ref>{{cite news |last=Suss |first=Nick |date=August 12, 2022 |title=How Lane Kiffin's dog, Juice, has become the face of Ole Miss football |url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/lane-kiffins-dog-juice-become-175246429.html |work=USA Today |access-date=November 13, 2022 |archive-date=September 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240903080850/https://sports.yahoo.com/lane-kiffins-dog-juice-become-175246429.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=King |first=Ben |date=October 5, 2022 |title=Lane Kiffin's Dog 'Juice' Agrees to NIL Deal With The Grove Collective |url=https://www.si.com/college/olemiss/football/ole-miss-rebels-nil-deal-juice-kiffin |magazine=Sports Illustrated |access-date=November 13, 2022 |archive-date=November 13, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113190816/https://www.si.com/college/olemiss/football/ole-miss-rebels-nil-deal-juice-kiffin |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2015, the university removed the [[Flag of Mississippi|Mississippi State Flag]], which included the Confederate battle emblem,<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/26/us/ole-miss-confederate-state-flag-removed-campus/index.html |title=Ole Miss removes state flag from campus |date=October 26, 2015 |first=Eliott C. |last=McLaughlin |publisher=CNN |access-date=May 10, 2019 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424203122/https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/26/us/ole-miss-confederate-state-flag-removed-campus/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and in 2020, it relocated a prominent Confederate monument.<ref>{{cite news |last=Pettus |first=Emily Wagster |date=July 14, 2020 |title=Ole Miss moves Confederate statue from prominent campus spot |url=https://apnews.com/article/us-news-ap-top-news-oxford-mississippi-ms-state-wire-d5824d7b24b9d7af5976da60741d4a28 |work=Associated Press |access-date=August 2, 2021 |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602175814/https://apnews.com/article/us-news-ap-top-news-oxford-mississippi-ms-state-wire-d5824d7b24b9d7af5976da60741d4a28 |url-status=live }}</ref>
After the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit]] held both Barnett and Lieutenant Governor [[Paul B. Johnson, Jr.]] in contempt, with fines of more than $10,000 for each day they refused to allow Meredith to enroll,<ref>{{Cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/11/07/obituaries/ross-barnett-segregationist-dies-governor-of-mississippi-in-1960-s.html?sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all|work=The New York Times|title=Ross Barnett, Segregationist, Dies; Governor of Mississippi in 1960's|date=November 7, 1987|accessdate=May 27, 2010}}</ref> Meredith, escorted by a force of [[United States Marshals Service|U.S. Marshals]], entered the campus on September 30, 1962.<ref>[http://www.eotu.uiuc.edu/pedagogy/grogers/GRP/Meredith_1.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706035016/http://www.eotu.uiuc.edu/pedagogy/grogers/GRP/Meredith_1.htm|date=July 6, 2010}}</ref>


==Campus==
Two people were killed by gunfire during the riot, a French journalist, [[Paul Guihard]] and an Oxford repairman, Ray Gunter.<ref>{{cite book |last=Doyle |first=William|title=An American Insurrection|year=2001|publisher=Doubleday|location=New York, NY|isbn=978-0385499699|page=215}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=The Civil Rights Movement: Struggle and Resistance|author=Riches, William T. Martin|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan, 2004}}</ref> One-third of the US Marshals, 166 men, were injured, as were 40 soldiers and National Guardsmen.<ref name="Time">{{cite news|title=The States: Though the Heavens Fall |work=TIME |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,829233-5,00.html|accessdate=October 3, 2007|date=October 12, 1962}}</ref>


===Oxford campus===
After control was re-established by federal forces, Meredith, thanks to the protection afforded by federal marshals, was able to enroll and attend his first class on October 1. Following the [[riot]], elements of an [[Army National Guard]] division were stationed in Oxford to prevent future similar violence. While most Ole Miss students did not riot prior to his official enrollment in the university, many harassed Meredith during his first two semesters on campus.<ref name="cohodas">''The band played Dixie: Race and the liberal conscience at Ole Miss'', Nadine Cohodas, (1997), New York, Free Press</ref>
{{wide image|File:Panorama of Courtyard with Lyceum Building - University of Mississippi - Oxford - Mississippi - USA.jpg|alt=Panoramic view of the courtyard behind the Lyceum|align-cap=center|1089px|Panoramic view of the courtyard behind the [[Lyceum (Mississippi)|Lyceum]] (1848)}}


The University of Mississippi's Oxford campus is partially located in Oxford and partially in [[University, Mississippi]], a [[census-designated place]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st28_ms/place/p2875520_university/DC20BLK_P2875520.pdf |title=2020 census - census block map: University CDP, MS |publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]] |access-date=August 14, 2022 |quote=Univ of Mississippi (blue text) |archive-date=August 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220814055324/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st28_ms/place/p2875520_university/DC20BLK_P2875520.pdf |url-status=live }}<br />{{cite web |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st28_ms/place/p2854840_oxford/DC20BLK_P2854840.pdf |title=2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Oxford city, MS |publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]] |access-date=August 14, 2022 |quote=Univ of Mississippi |page=1 (PDF p. 2/5) |archive-date=July 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220721211613/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st28_ms/place/p2854840_oxford/DC20BLK_P2854840.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> The main campus is situated at an altitude of around {{Convert|500|feet|meters|abbr=out}}, and has expanded from {{Convert|1|sqmi|ha|abbr=out|spell=in}} of land to around {{Convert|1,200|acre|sqmi ha|abbr=out}}. The campus' buildings are largely designed in a [[Georgian architecture|Georgian architectural style]]; some of the newer buildings have a more contemporary architecture.<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu">{{Cite web |url=https://catalog.olemiss.edu/university/buildings |title=About the University of Mississippi |website=UM Catalog |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=May 8, 2021 |archive-date=May 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508215524/https://catalog.olemiss.edu/university/buildings |url-status=live }}</ref>
According to first-person accounts, students living in Meredith's dorm bounced basketballs on the floor just above his room through all hours of the night. When Meredith walked into the cafeteria for meals, the students eating would all turn their backs. If Meredith sat at a table with other students, all of whom were white, they would immediately move to another table.<ref name="cohodas"/> Many of these events are featured in the 2012 ESPN documentary film ''[[30 for 30#Volume II|Ghosts of Ole Miss]]''.


[[File:Barnard Observatory angled view.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|alt=Barnard Observatory|[[Barnard Observatory]] (1859) was designed to house the world's largest telescope.]]
====Historical observations and remembrances====
In 2002 the university marked the 40th anniversary of integration with a yearlong series of events titled "Open Doors: Building on 40 Years of Opportunity in Higher Education." These included an oral history of Ole Miss, various symposiums, the April unveiling of a $130,000 memorial, and a reunion of federal marshals who had served at the campus. In September 2003, the university completed the year's events with an international conference on race. By that year, 13% of the student body identified as African American. Meredith's son Joseph graduated as the top doctoral student at the School of Business Administration.<ref name="Byrd">{{cite news|author=Shelia Hardwell Byrd|title=Meredith ready to move on|agency=Associated Press, at Athens Banner-Herald (OnlineAthens)|url=http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/092102/new_20020921041.shtml|date=September 21, 2002|accessdate=October 2, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016065534/http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/092102/new_20020921041.shtml|archive-date=October 16, 2007|dead-url=yes|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
[[File:Historical Landmark Plague.jpg|thumb|right|upright|A plaque outside the Meek School of Journalism and New Media declaring campus a historic landmark in journalism by the [[Society of Professional Journalists]]]]


At the campus' center is "[[Lyceum–The Circle Historic District|The Circle]]", which consists of eight academic buildings organized around an ovaloid common. The buildings include the Lyceum (1848), the "Y" Building (1853), and six later buildings constructed in a [[Neoclassical Revival]] style.<ref name="nhlnom"/> The Lyceum was the first building on the campus and was expanded with two wings in 1903. According to the university, the Lyceum's bell is the oldest academic bell in the United States.<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu"/> Near the Circle is [[The Grove (Ole Miss)|The Grove]], a {{Convert|10|acre|ha|abbr=out|adj=on}} plot of land that was set aside by chancellor [[Robert Burwell Fulton]] {{Circa|1893}}, and hosts up to 100,000 [[Tailgate party|tailgaters]] during home games.<ref>{{cite news |last=Anderson |first=Seph |date=April 17, 2013 |title=The Grove at Ole Miss: Where Football Saturdays Create Lifelong Memories |url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1607602-the-grove-at-ole-miss-where-football-saturdays-create-lifelong-memories |work=Bleacher Report |access-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-date=April 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412210653/https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1607602-the-grove-at-ole-miss-where-football-saturdays-create-lifelong-memories |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="tailgate">{{cite news |last=Gentry |first=James K. |date=October 31, 2014 |title=Tailgating Goes Above and Beyond at the University of Mississippi |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/sports/ncaafootball/tailgating-goes-above-and-beyond-at-the-university-of-mississippi.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=May 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506010818/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/01/sports/ncaafootball/tailgating-goes-above-and-beyond-at-the-university-of-mississippi.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Barnard Observatory]], which was constructed under Chancellor Barnard in 1859, was designed to house the world's largest telescope. Due to the Civil War's outbreak, however, the telescope was never delivered and was instead acquired by [[Northwestern University]].<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu"/><ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 91.</ref> The observatory was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1978.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/78001607 |title=Barnard Observatory |website=NPGallery Digital Asset Management System |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627225920/https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/78001607 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Sansing 1999 p. 315">[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 315.</ref> The first major building built after the Civil War was Ventress Hall, which was constructed in a [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Victorian Romanesque]] style in 1889.<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu"/>
Six years later, in 2008, the site of the riots, known as [[Lyceum-The Circle Historic District]], was designated as a [[National Historic Landmark]].<ref name="nhlnom">{{Cite book|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nhl/Fall07Nominations/Lyceum.pdf|title=National Historic Landmark Nomination: Lyceum|date=January 23, 2007|author=Gene Ford and Susan Cianci Salvatore|publisher=National Park Service |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226084158/http://www.nps.gov/history/nhl/Fall07Nominations/Lyceum.pdf|archivedate=February 26, 2009}}</ref> The district includes:
* The [[Lyceum-The Circle Historic District|Lyceum]]
* The [[Lyceum-The Circle Historic District|Circle]], including its flagpole and Confederate Monument.
* [[Croft Institute for International Studies]], also known as the "Y" Building
* Brevard Hall, also known as the "Old Chemistry" Building
* Carrier Hall
* Shoemaker Hall
* Ventress Hall
* Bryant Hall
* Peabody Hall


From 1929 to 1930, architect [[Frank P. Gates]] designed 18 buildings on campus, mostly in [[Georgian Revival architecture|Georgian Revival architectural style]], including (Old) University High School, Barr Hall, Bondurant Hall, Farley Hall (also known as Lamar Hall), Faulkner Hall, and Wesley Knight Field House.<ref name="clarionledgerobit">{{cite news |title=Frank Gates Dies Here; Rites Today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/185654466/?terms=%22Frank%2BGates%22 |access-date=November 7, 2017 |work=The Clarion Ledger |date=January 3, 1975 |page=7 |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=registration |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424203159/https://www.newspapers.com/image/185654466/?terms=%22Frank%2BGates%22 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="missdepartmentgates">{{cite web |title=Gates, Frank P., Co. (b.1895 - d.1975) |url=http://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=artisanSearch&Name=Gates%2C%20Frank%20P.%2C%20Co.&City=Any&Role=Any |website=Mississippi Department of Archives and History |access-date=November 7, 2017 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424203201/https://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=artisanSearch&Name=Gates%2C+Frank+P.%2C+Co.&City=Any&Role=Any |url-status=live }}</ref> During the 1930s, the many building projects at the campus were largely funded by the [[Public Works Administration]] and other federal entities.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], pp. 252–253.</ref> Among the notable buildings built in this period is the dual-domed [[Kennon Observatory]] (1939).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://physics.olemiss.edu/kennon/ |title=Kennon Observatory |website=Department of Physics and Astronomy |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=August 3, 2021 |archive-date=August 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804034731/https://physics.olemiss.edu/kennon/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Additionally, on April 14, 2010, the university campus was declared a [[National Historic Sites (United States)|National Historic Site]] by the [[Society of Professional Journalists]] to honor reporters who covered the 1962 riot, including the late [[France|French]] reporter [[Paul Guihard]], a victim of the riot.<ref name="jmitchell">{{Cite news|url=http://blogs.clarionledger.com/jmitchell/2010/04/14/ole-miss-declared-national-historic-site/|title=Ole Miss declared National Historic Site|author=Jerry Mitchell|publisher=''[[The Clarion-Ledger]]''|date=April 14, 2010|accessdate=April 14, 2010 |deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5ozPEcbPo?url=http://blogs.clarionledger.com/jmitchell/2010/04/14/ole-miss-declared-national-historic-site/ |archivedate=April 14, 2010|df=}}</ref>
Two large modern buildings—the Ole Miss Union (1976) and Lamar Hall (1977)—caused controversy by diverging from the university's traditional architecture.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], pp. 315–316.</ref> In 1998, the Gertrude C. Ford Foundation donated $20 million to establish the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://fordcenter.org/about/ |title=About |website=Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126173210/https://fordcenter.org/about/ |url-status=live }}</ref> which was the first building on campus to be solely dedicated to the performing arts.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 350.</ref> As of 2020, the university was constructing a {{Convert|202000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} [[STEM]] facility, the largest single construction project in the campus' history.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hahn |first=Tina H. |date=February 8, 2020 |title=Record-setting construction project at Ole Miss: Business leaders commit to STEM education |url=https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2020/02/08/ole-miss-stem-facility-construction-donation-duff-brothers/4667053002/ |work=The Clarion Ledger |access-date=May 19, 2021 |archive-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210602175747/https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2020/02/08/ole-miss-stem-facility-construction-donation-duff-brothers/4667053002/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The university owns and operates the [[University of Mississippi Museum]], which comprises collections of American fine art, Classical antiquities, and Southern folk art, as well as historic properties in Oxford.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://museum.olemiss.edu/about/history/ |title=History |website=The University of Mississippi Museum |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413162640/https://museum.olemiss.edu/about/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Ole Miss also owns [[University-Oxford Airport]], which is located north of the main campus.<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu"/>


North Mississippi Japanese Supplementary School, a [[Hoshuko|Japanese weekend school]], is operated in conjunction with Ole Miss, with classes held on campus.<ref name=HoshukoEN>"[http://usjp.olemiss.edu/english/ Japanese Supplementary School] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217042126/https://usjp.olemiss.edu/english/ |date=February 17, 2022 }}." OGE-US Japan Partnership, University of Mississippi. Retrieved on February 25, 2015.</ref><ref>"[http://usjp.olemiss.edu/maps/ 周辺案内] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217042123/https://usjp.olemiss.edu/maps/ |date=February 17, 2022 }}." North Mississippi Japanese Supplementary School at The University of Mississippi. Retrieved on April 1, 2015.</ref> It opened in 2008 and was jointly established by several Japanese companies and the university. Many children have parents who are employees at [[Toyota]] facilities in [[Blue Springs, Mississippi|Blue Springs]].<ref>{{cite web |last=McArthur |first=Danny |url=https://www.djournal.com/news/local/a-wide-perspective-learning-japanese-american-culture-through-language-and-education/article_e07e1b48-386b-5002-bf77-2a0bc23ccd26.html |title=A wide perspective': Learning Japanese, American culture through language and education |newspaper=Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal |date=October 24, 2021 |access-date=February 16, 2022 |archive-date=February 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217040318/https://www.djournal.com/news/local/a-wide-perspective-learning-japanese-american-culture-through-language-and-education/article_e07e1b48-386b-5002-bf77-2a0bc23ccd26.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
From September 2012 to May 2013, the university marked its 50th anniversary of integration with a program called ''Opening the Closed Society'', referring to ''Mississippi: The Closed Society'', a 1964 book by James W. Silver, a history professor at the university.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/us/university-of-mississippi-commemorates-integration.html?ref=universityofmississippi&_r=0|work=The New York Times |first=Campbell|last=Robertson|title=University of Mississippi Commemorates Integration|date=September 30, 2012}}</ref> The events included lectures by figures such as Attorney General [[Eric H. Holder Jr.]] and the singer and activist [[Harry Belafonte]], movie screenings, panel discussions, and a "walk of reconciliation and redemption."<ref>[http://news.olemiss.edu/um-commemorates-50-years-of-integration/#.UQd15PJ0E04 Calendar Set for 50 Years of Integration at Ole Miss]. News.olemiss.edu (September 25, 2012). Retrieved on 2013-08-17.</ref> [[Myrlie Evers-Williams]], widow of Medgar Evers, slain civil rights leader and late president of the state NAACP, closed the observance on May 11, 2013, by delivering the address at the university's 160th commencement.<ref name="Mitchell">{{cite news |last=Mitchell|first=Jerry|title=Ole Miss honors Evers-Williams|url=http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20130512/NEWS01/305120048/Ole-Miss-honors-Evers-Williams|accessdate=May 29, 2013|newspaper=Clarion Ledger|date=May 11, 2013}}</ref><ref name="Mitchell"/>


<gallery mode="packed" caption="Campus of the University of Mississippi">
===Recent history===
File:Ventress Hall 2.jpg|alt=Ventress Hall|Ventress Hall (1889)
File:Kennon Observatory.jpg|[[Kennon Observatory]] (1939)
File:Farley Hall 2.jpg|Farley Hall (1929)
File:Oxford - Bryant Hall.jpg|Bryant Hall (1911)<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu" />
File:Picture of Ole Miss Basketball Court.jpg|[[The Sandy and John Black Pavilion]] (2016)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://olemisssports.com/facilities/the-pavilion-at-ole-miss/6 |title=The Sandy and John Black Pavilion |website=Ole Miss Sports |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=November 12, 2022 |archive-date=September 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230908140151/https://olemisssports.com/facilities/the-pavilion-at-ole-miss/6 |url-status=live }}</ref>
</gallery>


===Satellite campuses===
The university was chosen to host the [[United States presidential election debates, 2008|first presidential debate of 2008]], between Senator [[John McCain]] and then-Senator [[Barack Obama]] which was held September 26, 2008. This was the first presidential debate to be held in Mississippi.<ref>[http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071120/SPECIAL02/711200379 "University lands first of 3 debates"]{{Dead link|date=March 2015}}, ''The Clarion-Ledger'', Accessed November 20, 2007</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://debate.olemiss.edu/|title=2008 Presidential Debate - The University of Mississippi - Official Home Page|publisher=|accessdate=May 29, 2015|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205002702/http://debate.olemiss.edu./|archivedate=December 5, 2008|df=}}</ref>
In 1903, the [[University of Mississippi School of Medicine]] was established on the Oxford campus. It offered only two years of medical courses; students had to attend an out-of-state medical school to complete their degrees.<ref name="med">{{cite web |url=https://www.umc.edu/UMMC/About-Us/History/History-Overview.html |title=History |website=University of Mississippi Medical Center |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-date=June 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601064022/https://umc.edu/UMMC/About-Us/History/History-Overview.html |url-status=live }}</ref> This form of medical education continued until 1955, when the [[University of Mississippi Medical Center]] (UMMC) was established on a {{Convert|164|acre|ha|abbr=out|adj=on}} site in [[Jackson, Mississippi]], and the School of Medicine was relocated there.<ref name="medSansing">[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], pp. 162, 265–266.</ref> A nursing school was established in 1956 and since then, other health-related schools have been added. {{As of|2021}}, UMMC offers medical and graduate degrees.<ref name="med"/> In addition to the medical center, the university has satellite campuses in Booneville,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://outreach.olemiss.edu/booneville/why_umb.html |title=Why Ole Miss and UM-Booneville? |website=UM, Booneville |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 24, 2021 |archive-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306053434/https://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/booneville/why_umb.html |url-status=live }}</ref> DeSoto,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://outreach.olemiss.edu/desoto/why_umd.html |title=Why Ole Miss and UM-DeSoto? |website=UM, DeSoto |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 24, 2021 |archive-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306044652/https://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/desoto/why_umd.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Grenada,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://outreach.olemiss.edu/grenada/why_umg.html |title=Why Ole Miss and UM-Tupelo? |website=UM, Grenada |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 24, 2021 |archive-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306060304/https://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/grenada/why_umg.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Rankin,<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://outreach.olemiss.edu/rankin/why_umr.html |title=Why Ole Miss and UM-Rankin? |website=UM, Rankin |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 24, 2021 |archive-date=July 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724182720/https://outreach.olemiss.edu/rankin/why_umr.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and Tupelo.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://outreach.olemiss.edu/tupelo/why_umt.html |title=Why Ole Miss and UM-Tupelo? |website=UM, Tupelo |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 24, 2021 |archive-date=March 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306054431/https://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/tupelo/why_umt.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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==Organization and administration==
The university adopted a new on-field mascot for athletic events in the fall of 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mascot.olemiss.edu/?p=333|title=Mascot Selection Committee » Rebel Black Bear Selected As New On-Field Mascot for Ole Miss Rebels|publisher=Mascot.olemiss.edu|date=October 14, 2010|accessdate=December 14, 2012 |deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904072014/http://mascot.olemiss.edu/?p=333|archivedate=September 4, 2015|df=}}</ref> [[Colonel Reb]], retired from the sidelines of sporting events in 2003, was officially replaced by "[[Rebel Black Bear|Rebel]]", a black bear, and then, in 2018, was replaced by The Landshark.<ref>https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/college/ole-miss/2018/08/11/ole-miss-unveils-its-landshark-mascot-meet-rebels-day/966506002/</ref> All university sports teams are still officially referred to as the [[Ole Miss Rebels|Rebels]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.olemiss.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5203:bearmascot&catid=125:generalnews&Itemid=12|title=Ole Miss News|publisher=News.olemiss.edu|accessdate=December 14, 2012}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="float:right; margin-left:1em; font-size:90%; line-height:1.4em; width:280px;"
|+ {{sronly|Table featuring schools of the University of Mississippi}}
! style="background:#011E41;color:white;text-align:left;" |School
! style="background:#011E41;color:white;" |Founded
! style="background:#011E41;color:white;" |{{abbr|Ref.|Reference(s)}}
|-
| College of Liberal Arts
| {{center|1848}}
|style="text-align:center;"|<ref name="liberalarts">{{cite web |url=https://libarts.olemiss.edu/history-of-the-college-of-liberal-arts/ |title=Mission & History of the College of Liberal Arts |website=College of Liberal Arts |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516095920/https://libarts.olemiss.edu/history-of-the-college-of-liberal-arts/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[University of Mississippi School of Law|School of Law]]
| {{center|1854}}
|style="text-align:center;"|<ref name="law"/>
|-
| School of Engineering
| {{center|1900}}
|style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://engineering.olemiss.edu/about-history/ |title=History |website=Ole Miss Engineering |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=January 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118190955/https://engineering.olemiss.edu/about-history/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| School of Education
| {{center|1903}}
|style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://education.olemiss.edu/about/history.html |title=History |website=School of Education |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=October 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201004131135/http://education.olemiss.edu/about/history.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| [[University of Mississippi School of Medicine|School of Medicine]]
| {{center|1903}}
|style="text-align:center;"|<ref name="med"/>
|-
| School of Pharmacy
| {{center|1908}}
|style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pharmacy.olemiss.edu/about-sop/welcome/ |title=Welcome from Dean David D. Allen |website=School of Pharmacy |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=April 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413202616/https://pharmacy.olemiss.edu/about-sop/welcome/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| School of Business Administration
| {{center|1917}}
|style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://business.olemiss.edu/about/history/ |title=History |website=Ole Miss Business |date=October 29, 2019 |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=January 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210122220226/https://business.olemiss.edu/about/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| School of Journalism and New Media
| {{center|1947}}
|style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://catalog.olemiss.edu/journalism |title=School of Journalism and New Media |website=Academic Catalog |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=July 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200701172045/http://catalog.olemiss.edu/journalism |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| School of Nursing
| {{center|1948}}
|style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.umc.edu/son/SON_Home.html |title=School of Nursing |website=School of Nursing |publisher=University of Mississippi Medical Center |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=June 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601064147/https://umc.edu/son/SON_Home.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| School of Health Related Professions
| {{center|1971}}
|style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.umc.edu/shrp/SHRP_Home.html |title=School of Health Related Professions |website=School of Health Related Professions |publisher=University of Mississippi Medical Center |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=June 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601064111/https://umc.edu/shrp/SHRP_Home.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| School of Dentistry
| {{center|1975}}
|style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.umc.edu/sod/SOD_Home.html |title=School of Dentistry |website=School of Dentistry |publisher=University of Mississippi Medical Center |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=June 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601063523/https://www.umc.edu/sod/SOD_Home.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| Patterson School of Accountancy
| {{center|1979}}
|style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://accountancy.olemiss.edu/message-from-the-dean/ |title=Message from the Dean |website=Patterson School of Accountancy |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=November 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128052949/https://accountancy.olemiss.edu/message-from-the-dean/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| School of Applied Sciences
| {{center|2001}}
|style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://catalog.olemiss.edu/applied-sciences |title=School of Applied Sciences |website=Academic Catalog |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124213813/http://catalog.olemiss.edu/applied-sciences |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
| School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences
| {{center|2001}}
|style="text-align:center;"|<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.umc.edu/graduateschool/GraduateSchool_Home.html |title=School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences |website=School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences |publisher=University of Mississippi Medical Center |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=June 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601063606/https://www.umc.edu/graduateschool/GraduateSchool_Home.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
|-
|}


===Divisions of the university===
The university's 25th Rhodes Scholar was named in 2008. Since 1998, it has produced two Rhodes Scholars, as well as 10 Goldwater Scholars, seven Truman Scholars, 18 Fulbright Scholars, a Marshall Scholar, three Udall Scholars, two Gates Cambridge Scholars, one Mitchell Scholar, 19 Boren Scholars, one Boren fellow and one German Chancellor Fellowship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.olemiss.edu/aboutum/history.html|title=History {{!}} University of Mississippi|website=www.olemiss.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-11-27}}</ref>
The University of Mississippi consists of 15 schools.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.forbes.com/colleges/university-of-mississippi-main-campus/?sh=c95fe4565a79 |title=University of Mississippi Main Campus |website=Forbes |access-date=April 25, 2021 |archive-date=April 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425224708/https://www.forbes.com/colleges/university-of-mississippi-main-campus/?sh=c95fe4565a79 |url-status=live }}</ref> The largest undergraduate school is the College of Liberal Arts.<ref name="liberalarts"/> Graduate schools include a law school, a school of business administration, an engineering school, and a medical school.<ref name="usnews"/>

===Administration===
{{See also|Chancellor of the University of Mississippi}}

The University of Mississippi's chief administrative officer is the [[Chancellor of the University of Mississippi|chancellor]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Blinder |first=Alan |date=April 2, 2015 |title=University of Mississippi Chief, Whose Ouster Led to Protests, Rejects Offer to Stay |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/us/daniel-jones-university-of-mississippi-chief-whose-ouster-led-to-protests-rejects-offer-to-stay.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=August 11, 2021 |archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108164400/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/us/daniel-jones-university-of-mississippi-chief-whose-ouster-led-to-protests-rejects-offer-to-stay.html |url-status=live }}</ref> a position [[Glenn Boyce]] has held since 2019.<ref>{{cite news |last=Fowler |first=Sarah |date=October 4, 2019 |title=Who is Glenn Boyce? 5 things to know about the new Ole Miss chancellor |url=https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2019/10/04/glenn-boyce-new-ole-miss-chancellor-5-things-know/3863042002/ |work=The Clarion Ledger |access-date=June 2, 2021 |archive-date=May 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210527200623/https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2019/10/04/glenn-boyce-new-ole-miss-chancellor-5-things-know/3863042002/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The chancellor is supported by vice-chancellors who administer areas such as research and intercollegiate athletics. The provost oversees the university's academic affairs,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://provost.olemiss.edu/welcome-to-the-office-of-the-provost/ |title=Welcome to the Office of the Provost |website=Office of the Provost |date=January 13, 2017 |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 7, 2021 |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185248/https://provost.olemiss.edu/welcome-to-the-office-of-the-provost/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and a dean oversees each school, as well as general studies and the honors college.<ref name="org">{{cite web |url=https://olemiss.edu/aboutum/leadership.html |title=Senior Leadership |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 7, 2021 |archive-date=June 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601063631/https://olemiss.edu/aboutum/leadership.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A faculty senate advises the administration.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://olemiss.edu/faculty_senate/ |title=Faculty Senate |website=Faculty Senate |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 10, 2021 |archive-date=July 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210710221028/https://olemiss.edu/faculty_senate/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The board of trustees of the Mississippi State Institutions of Higher Learning is the constitutional governing body that is responsible for policy and financial oversight of the University of Mississippi and the state's other seven public secondary institutions. the board consists of 12 members, who serve staggered nine-year terms and represent the state's three Supreme Court Districts. The board appoints the commissioner of higher education, who administers its policies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mississippi.edu/about/ |title=Frequently Asked Questions |publisher=Mississippi State Institutions of Higher Learning |access-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-date=January 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210110234028/http://www.mississippi.edu/about/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Finances===
{{As of|April 2021}}, the University of Mississippi's endowment was $775 million.<ref name="endow">{{cite web |url=https://news.olemiss.edu/um-endowment-builds-to-record-775-million/ |title=UM Endowment Builds to Record $775 Million |date=April 1, 2021 |website=Ole Miss News |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513012105/https://news.olemiss.edu/um-endowment-builds-to-record-775-million/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The university's budget for fiscal year 2019 was over $540 million.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://adminfinance.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/74/2019/04/Expenditures-FY2019.pdf |title=Current Educational and General and Auxiliary Enterprises Funds Summary of Expenditures By Departments and Objects |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=November 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115223801/https://adminfinance.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/74/2019/04/Expenditures-FY2019.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Less than 13% of operating revenues are funded by the state of Mississippi,<ref name="endow"/> and the university relies heavily on private donations. The [[Ford Foundation]] has donated nearly $65 million to the Oxford campus and UMMC.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hahn |first=Tina H. |url=https://news.olemiss.edu/university-expands-student-unions-name-to-pay-tribute-to-ford/ |title=University Expands Student Union's Name to Pay Tribute to Ford |date=October 16, 2020 |website=Ole Miss News |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=August 20, 2021 |archive-date=August 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820165233/https://news.olemiss.edu/university-expands-student-unions-name-to-pay-tribute-to-ford/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


==Academics==
==Academics==
The University of Mississippi is the state's largest university by enrollment and is considered the state's flagship university.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2021/11/university-system-enrollment-continues-remain-steady |title=University system enrollment continues to remain steady |date=November 2, 2021 |access-date=January 28, 2022 |archive-date=January 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128213116/https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2021/11/university-system-enrollment-continues-remain-steady |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://news.olemiss.edu/record-breaking-enrollment-sets-um-apart-in-2023/#:~:text=Bolstered%20by%20this%20record%20incoming,%2C%20an%20increase%20of%207.7%25./ |title=Record-Breaking Enrollment Set UM Apart in 2023 |website=University of Mississippi News |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=November 8, 2023 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424203112/https://irep.olemiss.edu/fall-2017-2018-enrollment/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/tuition-fees-flagship-universities-over-time |title=Tuition and Fees at Flagship Universities over Time |publisher=The College Board |access-date=May 21, 2019 |archive-date=April 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402003859/https://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/tuition-fees-flagship-universities-over-time |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://olemiss.edu/aboutum/ |title=About UM: University of Mississippi |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=May 21, 2019 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424203112/https://olemiss.edu/aboutum/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2015, the student-faculty ratio was 19:1. Of its classes, 47.4 percent have fewer than 20 students. The most popular subjects include marketing, education and teaching, accountancy, finance, pharmaceutical sciences, and administration.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://irep.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2016/01/Mini-Fact-Book-in-Excel_2015-2016.pdf |title=The University of Mississippi 2015–2016 Fact Book |date=January 15, 2016 |website=Office of Institutional Research, Effectiveness, and Planning |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=April 18, 2016 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424203126/https://irep.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2016/01/Mini-Fact-Book-in-Excel_2015-2016.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> To receive a bachelor's degree, students must have at least 120 semester hours with passing grades and a cumulative 2.0 GPA.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://catalog.olemiss.edu/academics/regulations/degree-requirements. |title=Academic Regulations |website=Academic Catalog |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 7, 2021 |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709190747/https://catalog.olemiss.edu/academics/regulations/degree-requirements. |url-status=live }}</ref>


The university also offers graduate degrees such as PhDs and masters of art, science, and fine arts.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://catalog.olemiss.edu/graduate-school/programs |title=Graduate School |website=Academic Catalog |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 7, 2021 |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183534/https://catalog.olemiss.edu/graduate-school/programs |url-status=live }}</ref> The university maintains the [[Mississippi Teacher Corps]], a free graduate program that educates teachers for critical-needs public schools.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mtc.olemiss.edu/about-us |title=About Us |website=Mississippi Teacher Corps |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=April 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200410195641/https://www.mtc.olemiss.edu/about-us |url-status=live }}</ref>
The student-faculty ratio at University of Mississippi is 19:1, and the school has 47.4 percent of its classes with fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors at University of Mississippi include: Integrated Marketing Communications, Elementary Education and Teaching; Marketing/Marketing Management, General; Accountancy, Finance, General; Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, and Administration, Other; Biology, Psychology and Criminal Justice; and Business Administration and Management, General.
The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student success and satisfaction, is 85.3 percent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://irep.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2016/01/Mini-Fact-Book-in-Excel_2015-2016.pdf|title=The University of Mississippi 2015–2016 Fact Book|date=January 15, 2016}}</ref>


Taylor Medals, which were first awarded in 1905, are presented to exceptional students nominated by the faculty. The medals are named in honor of [[Marcus Elvis Taylor]], who graduated in 1871 and are given to less than one percent of each class.<ref name="sansing168">[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 168.</ref>
===Divisions of the university===
[[File:U.S. Government Medical Marijuana crop. University of Mississippi. Oxford.jpg|thumb|right|Medicinal [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] farmed by the university for the government]]
The degree-granting divisions located at the main campus in Oxford are:
* School of Accountancy
* School of Applied Sciences
* [[University of Mississippi School of Business Administration|School of Business Administration]]
* School of Education
* [[University of Mississippi School of Engineering|School of Engineering]]
* College of Liberal Arts
* Graduate School
* [[University of Mississippi School of Law|School of Law]]
* School of Pharmacy
* School of Journalism and New Media
* General Studies Program
The schools at the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus in Jackson are:
* School of Dentistry
* School of Health Related Professions
* School of Nursing (with a satellite unit at the main campus)
* School of Medicine
* School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences
*School of Population Health


===Research===
University of Mississippi Medical Center surgeons, led by [[James Hardy (surgeon)|James Hardy]], performed the world's first human lung transplant, in 1963, and the world's first animal-to-human heart transplant, in 1964. The heart of a [[Common chimpanzee|chimpanzee]] was used for the heart transplant because of Hardy's research on transplantation, consisting of primate studies during the previous nine years.<ref name="emory">{{cite web|date=April 12, 2005 |url=http://www.emoryhealthcare.org/transplant-center/lung-transplant/history.html|title=History of Lung Transplantation|publisher=Emory University |accessdate=September 8, 2009|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002121447/http://www.emoryhealthcare.org/transplant-center/lung-transplant/history.html|archivedate=October 2, 2009|df=}}</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897112,00.html Surgery: First Heart Transplant]. ''Time Magazine''. January 31, 1964</ref>
[[File:Snow at the University of Mississippi Field Station 1.JPG|thumb|upright=2|alt=A series of shallow ponds arranged in a grid and surrounded by forest. There is light snow on the ground.|Research ponds at the University of Mississippi Field Station]]


Ole Miss is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".<ref>{{cite web |title=Carnegie Classifications Institution Lookup |url=https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=176017 |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education |website=Carnegie Classifications |access-date=July 25, 2020 |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924003441/https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=176017 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Washington Post 2016">{{cite news |last=Anderson |first=Nick |date=February 4, 2016 |title=In new sorting of colleges, Dartmouth falls out of an exclusive group |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/02/04/in-new-sorting-of-colleges-dartmouth-falls-out-of-an-exclusive-group/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=June 9, 2018 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424233049/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/02/04/in-new-sorting-of-colleges-dartmouth-falls-out-of-an-exclusive-group/ |url-status=live }}</ref> According to the [[National Science Foundation]], the university spent $137 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 142nd in the nation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Table 20. Higher education R&D expenditures, ranked by FY 2018 R&D expenditures: FYs 2009–18 |url=https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2018/html/herd18-dt-tab020.html |website=National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics |publisher=National Science Foundation |access-date=July 25, 2020 |archive-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930141919/https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/herd/2018/html/herd18-dt-tab020.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It is one of the 33 colleges and universities participating in the [[National Sea Grant Program]] and participates in the [[National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program]].<ref name="NASA 2015">{{cite web |title=National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program |publisher=NASA |date=July 28, 2015 |url=http://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/spacegrant/home/index.html |access-date=June 9, 2018 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424203113/https://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/spacegrant/home/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Since 1948, the university has been a member of the [[Oak Ridge Associated Universities]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.research.olemiss.edu/resources/ORAU |title=Oak Ridge Associated Universities |website=Research, Scholarship, Innovation and Creativity |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=August 3, 2021 |archive-date=August 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803235803/https://www.research.olemiss.edu/resources/ORAU |url-status=live }}</ref>
The [[University of Mississippi Field Station]] in Abbeville is a natural laboratory used to study, research and teach about sustainable freshwater ecosystems.


In 1963, University of Mississippi Medical Center surgeons, led by [[James Hardy (surgeon)|James Hardy]], performed the world's first human lung transplant, and in 1964 the world's first animal-to-human heart transplant. Because Hardy researched transplantation, consisting of primate studies during the previous nine years, the heart of a [[Common chimpanzee|chimpanzee]] was used for the transplant.<ref name="emory">{{cite web |date=April 12, 2005 |url=http://www.emoryhealthcare.org/transplant-center/lung-transplant/history.html |title=History of Lung Transplantation |publisher=Emory University |access-date=September 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002121447/http://www.emoryhealthcare.org/transplant-center/lung-transplant/history.html |archive-date=October 2, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |date=January 31, 1964 |title=Surgery: First Heart Transplant |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897112,00.html |magazine=Time |access-date=December 14, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214015249/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,897112,00.html |archive-date=December 14, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Since 1968, the school operates the only legal [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] farm and production facility in the United States. The [[National Institute on Drug Abuse]] (NIDA) contracts to the university the production of cannabis for the use in approved research studies on the plant as well as for distribution to the seven surviving [[medical cannabis]] patients grandfathered into the [[Compassionate Investigational New Drug program]] (established in 1978 and canceled in 1991).<ref>[http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/18/government.marijuana.garden/index.html Government runs nation's only legal pot garden]. CNN. May 18, 2009</ref>


In 1965, the university established its Medicinal Plant Garden, which the School of Pharmacy uses for drug research.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cdfl.com/the-university-of-mississippi-insight-park-medicinal-plant-garden |title=The University of Mississippi Insight Park, Medicinal Plant Garden |publisher=CDFL |access-date=May 8, 2021 |archive-date=May 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508210646/https://cdfl.com/the-university-of-mississippi-insight-park-medicinal-plant-garden |url-status=live }}</ref> Since 1968, the school has operated the only legal [[Cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] farm and production facility in the United States. The [[National Institute on Drug Abuse]] contracts to the university production of cannabis for use in approved research studies and for distribution to the seven surviving [[medical marijuana]] patients grandfathered into the [[Compassionate Investigational New Drug program]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ahlers |first1=Mike |last2=Meserve |first2=Jeanne |date=May 18, 2009 |title=Government runs nation's only legal pot garden |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/18/government.marijuana.garden/index.html |publisher=CNN |access-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120930052933/http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/18/government.marijuana.garden/index.html |archive-date=September 30, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> The facility is the only source of marijuana medical researchers can use to conduct [[Food and Drug Administration]]-approved tests.<ref name="lat">{{cite news |last=Halper |first=Evan |date=May 28, 2014 |title=Mississippi, home to federal government's official stash of marijuana |url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pot-monopoly-20140529-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414143225/https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pot-monopoly-20140529-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Erickson |first=Britt E. |date=June 29, 2020 |title=Cannabis research stalled by federal inaction |url=https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/natural-products/Cannabis-research-stalled-federal-inaction/98/i25 |work=Chemical and Engineering News |publisher=American Chemical Society |access-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414143227/https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/natural-products/Cannabis-research-stalled-federal-inaction/98/i25 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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The National Center for Physics Acoustics (NCPA), which Congress established in 1986, is located on campus.<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu"/><ref name="usnews"/><ref name="acoustics">{{cite web |url=https://ncpa.olemiss.edu |title=Welcome |website=National Center for Physics Acoustics |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419165756/https://ncpa.olemiss.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In addition to conducting research, the NCPA houses the [[Acoustical Society of America]]'s archives.<ref name="acoustics"/> The university also operates the University of Mississippi Field Station, which includes 223 research ponds and supports long-term ecological research,<ref>{{cite journal |title=The University of Mississippi Field Station |journal=Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America |date=2000 |volume=81 |page=82 |publisher=Ecological Society of America |doi=10.1890/0012-9623(2000)081[0082:FOFS]2.0.CO;2 |issn=0012-9623 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and hosts the Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research and the Mississippi Law Research Institute.<ref name="usnews"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://mcsr.olemiss.edu |title=Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-date=April 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414063836/https://mcsr.olemiss.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1156713&HistoricalAwards=false |title=REU Site: Ole Miss Physical Chemistry Summer Research Program |publisher=National Science Foundation |access-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511190653/https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1156713&HistoricalAwards=false |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://mlri.olemiss.edu |title=Mississippi Law Research Institute |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-date=April 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430025838/https://www.mlri.olemiss.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2012, the university completed [[Insight Park]], a research park that "welcomes companies commercializing University of Mississippi research".<ref>{{cite news |date=April 15, 2012 |title=Research facility opens |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/186041207/?terms=%22insight%2Bpark%22 |work=The Clarion-Ledger |page=20 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=July 22, 2021 |url-access=registration |archive-date=July 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729141610/https://www.newspapers.com/image/186041207/?terms=%22insight%2Bpark%22 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insightparkum.com/internal_park_about.html |title=Insight Park |website=Insight Park |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 2, 2021 |archive-date=April 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410112242/http://www.insightparkum.com/internal_park_about.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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The university houses one of the largest [[blues music]] archives in the United States. Some of the contributions to the collection were donated by [[BB King]] who donated his entire personal record collection. The archive includes the first ever commercial blues recording, a song called "Crazy Blues" recorded by [[Mamie Smith]] in 1920.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=HBQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA82 Internet site shines light on archival blues recordings]. ''Billboard Magazine''. June 9, 2001</ref> The Mamie and Ellis Nassour Arts & Entertainment Collection, highlighted by a wealth of theater and film scripts, photographs and memorabilia, was dedicated in September 2005.


===Special programs===
===Special programs===
[[File:Trent Lott Leadership Institute.jpg|thumb|left|upright=2|alt=Trent Lott Leadership Institute|Panoramic view of the Trent Lott Leadership Institute]]


Honors education at the University of Mississippi, consisting of lectures by distinguished academics, began in 1953. In 1974, this program became the University Scholars Program, and in 1983, the University Honors Program was created and honors-core courses were offered.<ref name="smbhhistory">{{cite web |url=https://www.honors.olemiss.edu/about/history/ |title=History |website=Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424233158/https://www.honors.olemiss.edu/about/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1997, [[Netscape]] CEO [[Jim Barksdale]] and wife Sally donated $5.4 million to establish the [[Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College]] (SMBHC),<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 347.</ref> which provides a capstone project—a senior thesis—and endowed scholarships.<ref name="smbhhistory"/>
====Center for Intelligence and Security Studies====


In 1977, the university established its [[Center for the Study of Southern Culture]] with funding from the [[National Endowment for the Humanities]], which is housed in the College of Liberal Arts. The center provides for interdisciplinary studies of [[History of the Southern United States|Southern history]] and [[Culture of the Southern United States|culture]].<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 318.</ref> In 2000, the university established the Trent Lott Leadership Institute, which is named after alumnus and then-[[Party leaders of the United States Senate|US Senate majority leader]] [[Trent Lott]]. The institute was funded with large corporate donations from [[MCI Inc.]], [[Lockheed Martin]], and other companies.<ref name="lott">{{cite news |last=Bruni |first=Frank |date=May 8, 1999 |title=Donors Flock to University Center Linked to Senate Majority Leader |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/08/us/donors-flock-to-university-center-linked-to-senate-majority-leader.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-date=February 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227084012/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/08/us/donors-flock-to-university-center-linked-to-senate-majority-leader.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In addition to leadership initiatives, the institute offers a BA degree in Public Policy Leadership.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://lottinst.olemiss.edu/about/about-the-institute/ |title=About the Institute |website=Trent Lott Leadership Institute |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=November 27, 2018 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424233015/https://lottinst.olemiss.edu/about-2/about-trent-lott/about-the-institute/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
The [[Center for Intelligence and Security Studies]] (CISS) delivers academic programming to prepare outstanding students for careers in intelligence analysis in both the public and private sectors. In addition, CISS personnel engage in applied research and consortium building with government, private and academic partners. In late 2012, the United States Director of National Intelligence designated CISS as an Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence (CAE). CISS is one of only 29 college programs in the United States with this distinction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dni.gov/|title=Home|publisher=|accessdate=May 29, 2015}}</ref>


The [[Center for Intelligence and Security Studies]] (CISS) delivers academic programming on intelligence analysis and engages in applied research and consortium building with government, private, and academic partners.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ciss.olemiss.edu |title=Welcome to the Center for Intelligence and Security Studies (CISS) |website=Center for Intelligence and Security Studies |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-date=May 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501125444/https://ciss.olemiss.edu/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2012, the [[United States Director of National Intelligence]] designated CISS as an Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence (CAE), becoming one of 29 such college programs in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dni.gov/ |title=Home |publisher=Office of the Director of National Intelligence |access-date=May 29, 2015 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424233010/https://www.dni.gov/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other special programs include the Haley Barbour Center for Manufacturing Excellence—established jointly by the university and [[Toyota]] in 2008—and the Chinese Language Flagship Program ({{zh|first=s|s=中文旗舰项目|t=中文旗艦項目|p=Zhōngwén Qíjiàn Xiàngmù}}).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cme.olemiss.edu/history/ |title=History |website=Haley Barbour Center for Manufacturing Excellence |date=January 31, 2020 |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-date=February 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225131650/https://cme.olemiss.edu/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olemiss.edu/chinese/about-program/introduction/ |title=Introduction |website=Chinese Language Flagship Program |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424204149/https://chinese.olemiss.edu/about-introduction/ |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Croft Institute for International Studies]], which was founded in 1998, provides the only international studies undergraduate program in Mississippi.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2021 Best Mississippi Colleges for International Relations |url=https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges-for-international-relations/s/mississippi/ |access-date=July 22, 2021 |website=Niche |archive-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723181959/https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/best-colleges-for-international-relations/s/mississippi/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
==== Center for Manufacturing Excellence ====
The Haley Barbour Center for Manufacturing Excellence<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://cme.olemiss.edu/about-cme/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171120042538/http://cme.olemiss.edu/about-cme/|dead-url=yes|archive-date=2017-11-20|title=CME - The Haley Barbour Center for Manufacturing Excellence - About CME|website=cme.olemiss.edu|access-date=2018-11-27}}</ref> (CME) was established in June 2008 to provide unique opportunities for students interested in manufacturing. The CME is developing interdisciplinary educational opportunities within an innovative academic learning model that provides our students with the practical experiences, fundamental knowledge, and creative skill sets needed to lead the world of modern manufacturing. The CME is working with companies who express a strong desire to become industry leaders and who wish to work with CME staff and students.


The University of Mississippi is a member of the SEC Academic Consortium, which has since been renamed [[Southeastern Conference#Formation of SECU and SEC academic network|SECU]]. The collaborative initiative was designed to promote research, scholarship, and achievement among the member universities in the [[Southeastern Conference]].<ref>{{cite web |title=SECU |url=http://www.secsymposium.com/secu.php |publisher=SEC |access-date=February 13, 2013 |archive-date=January 24, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124074319/http://www.secsymposium.com/secu.php |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=SECU: The Academic Initiative of the SEC |url=http://www.secdigitalnetwork.com/AcademicConsortium |publisher=SEC Digital Network |access-date=February 13, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721055557/http://www.secdigitalnetwork.com/AcademicConsortium |archive-date=July 21, 2012 }}</ref> In 2013, the university participated in the SEC Symposium on renewable energy in [[Atlanta]], Georgia, which was organized and led by the [[University of Georgia]] and the [[University of Georgia#Bioenergy Systems Research Institute|UGA Bioenergy Systems Research Institute]].<ref>{{cite web |title=SEC Symposium to address role of Southeast in renewable energy |date=February 6, 2013 |url=http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/sec-symposium-to-address-role-of-southeast-in-renewable-energy/ |publisher=University of Georgia |access-date=February 13, 2013 |archive-date=February 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212211032/http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/sec-symposium-to-address-role-of-southeast-in-renewable-energy/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
====Chinese Language Flagship Program====


In 2021, actor [[Morgan Freeman]] and Professor Linda Keena donated $1 million to the University of Mississippi to create the Center for Evidence-Based Policing and Reform, which will provide law-enforcement training and seek to improve engagement between law enforcement and communities.<ref>{{Cite news |first1=Amir |last1=Vera |first2=Dave |last2=Alsup |first3=Jamiel |last3=Lynch |title=Morgan Freeman and a University of Mississippi professor donate $1M to college's policing program |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/09/us/morgan-freeman-university-of-mississippi-policing/index.html |access-date=June 10, 2021 |publisher=CNN |archive-date=June 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610100714/https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/09/us/morgan-freeman-university-of-mississippi-policing/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |agency=Associated Press |title=Morgan Freeman, professor give $1M for police training center at University of Mississippi |url=https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2021/06/08/morgan-freeman-prof-donate-million-dollars-new-police-training-center-ole-miss/7611872002/ |access-date=June 10, 2021 |work=The Clarion Ledger |archive-date=June 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625173008/https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/local/2021/06/08/morgan-freeman-prof-donate-million-dollars-new-police-training-center-ole-miss/7611872002/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
The university offers the Chinese Language Flagship Program ({{zh|first=s|s=中文旗舰项目|t=中文旗艦項目|p=Zhōngwén Qíjiàn Xiàngmù}}), a study program aiming to provide Americans with an advanced knowledge of Chinese.<ref>"[http://www.olemiss.edu/chinese/about-program/introduction/ Introduction]." Chinese Language Flagship Program, University of Mississippi. Retrieved on May 3, 2012.</ref>


===Rankings and accolades===
====Croft Institute for International Studies====
{{Infobox US university ranking
| Forbes = 231
| THE_WSJ = 278
| USNWR_NU = 171 (tie)
| Wamo_NU = 304
| USNWR_W = 428 (tie)
}}In ''[[U.S. News & World Report]]''{{'}}s 2023 rankings, the University of Mississippi was tied for 163rd place among national universities and 88th among public universities.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-mississippi-2440/overall-rankings |title=University of Mississippi Rankings |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=September 23, 2021 |archive-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511204528/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-mississippi-2440/overall-rankings |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2023, ''[[Bloomberg Businessweek]]'' ranked the professional MBA program at the School of Business Administration #72 nationally,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/business-schools/regions/us/ |title=Best B-Schools in US |date=September 14, 2023 |publisher=[[Bloomberg BusinessWeek]] |access-date=September 18, 2023 |archive-date=April 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419175001/https://www.bloomberg.com/business-schools/regions/us/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and the online MBA program in the top 25.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.olemiss.edu/ole-miss-online-mba-program-ranks-u-s-news-top-25/ |title=Ole Miss Online MBA Program Ranks in U.S. News Top 25 |date=January 9, 2018 |website=Ole Miss News |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=November 27, 2018 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424204205/https://news.olemiss.edu/ole-miss-online-mba-program-ranks-u-s-news-top-25/ |url-status=live }}</ref> {{As of|2018}}, all three degree programs at the Patterson School of Accountancy were among the top 10 accounting programs according to the ''[[Public Accounting Report]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.olemiss.edu/accountancy-programs-maintain-top-10-standing/ |title=Accountancy Programs Maintain Top 10 Standing |date=October 1, 2018 |website=Ole Miss News |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=November 27, 2018 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424204206/https://news.olemiss.edu/accountancy-programs-maintain-top-10-standing/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


Since 2012, the ''[[Chronicle of Higher Education]]'' has named the University of Mississippi as one of the "Great Colleges to Work For". In the 2018 results, released in the ''Chronicle''{{'}}s annual report on "The Academic Workplace", the university was among 84 institutions honored from the 253 colleges and universities surveyed.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.olemiss.edu/um-named-among-great-colleges-work/ |title=UM Again Named Among 'Great Colleges to Work For' |date=July 16, 2018 |website=Ole Miss News |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=November 27, 2018 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424204251/https://news.olemiss.edu/um-named-among-great-colleges-work/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2018, the university's campus was ranked the second-safest in the SEC and one of the safest in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.olemiss.edu/ums-robust-approach-campus-safety-lands-national-rankings/ |title=Robust Approach to Campus Safety Places UM in National Rankings |date=March 12, 2018 |website=Ole Miss News |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=November 27, 2018 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424204149/https://news.olemiss.edu/ums-robust-approach-campus-safety-lands-national-rankings/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
The Croft Institute for International Studies at the University of Mississippi is a privately funded, select-admissions, undergraduate program for high achieving students who pursue a B.A. degree in international studies. Croft students combine a regional concentration in Europe, East Asia, Latin America, or the Middle East with a thematic concentration in global economics and business, international governance and politics, or social and cultural identity. The program emphasizes intensive foreign language training, qualitative and quantitative skills, mandatory study abroad for a semester or more, and a yearlong senior thesis.


As of 2019, the university has had 27 [[Rhodes Scholars]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Thompson |first=Jake |date=November 25, 2019 |title=Hudson named University of Mississippi's 27th Rhodes Scholar |url=https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2019/11/25/hudson-named-university-of-mississippis-27th-rhodes-scholar/ |work=The Oxford Eagle |access-date=April 5, 2021 |archive-date=April 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410004909/https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2019/11/25/hudson-named-university-of-mississippis-27th-rhodes-scholar/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Since 1998, it has 10 [[Goldwater Scholars]], seven [[Truman Scholar]]s, 18 [[Fulbright Scholar]]s, one [[Marshall Scholar]], three [[Udall Scholar]]s, two [[Gates Cambridge Scholar]]s, one [[Mitchell Scholar]], 19 [[Boren Scholar]]s, one [[Boren fellow]], and one [[German Chancellor Fellowship]].<ref name="his">{{Cite web |url=http://www.olemiss.edu/aboutum/history.html |title=History |website=About UM |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=November 27, 2018 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424203239/https://olemiss.edu/aboutum/history.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
====International Student Organization====


==Student life==
The University of Mississippi has several student organizations to help students get to know one another and adapt to life at the university. One organization is the International Student Organization (ISO), which organizes activities and events for international students. Notable events of the ISO include a cultural night, date auction and international sports tournament.
[[File:University of Mississippi Class of 1861.jpg|thumb|alt=Class of 1861|The class of 1861]]


===Student body===
==== Lott Leadership Institute ====
As of the 2023–2024 academic year, the student body consists of 18,533 undergraduates and 2,264 in graduate programs.<ref name="Enroll2324">{{cite web |url=https://irep.olemiss.edu/fall-2023-2024-enrollment/ |title=Office of Institutional Research, Effectiveness, and Planning &#124; Fall 2023-2024 Enrollment |access-date=April 10, 2024 |archive-date=September 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240903080852/https://irep.olemiss.edu/fall-2023-2024-enrollment/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Around 57 percent of the undergraduate student body were female.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-mississippi-main-campus/student-life/diversity/ |title=Ole Miss Demographics & Diversity Report |website=College Factual |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=May 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170529220503/http://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/university-of-mississippi-main-campus/student-life/diversity/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="mini"/> As of Fall 2023, minorities composed 23.5 percent of the body.<ref name="Enroll2324"/> The median family income of students is $116,600, and over half of students come from the top 20 percent. According to ''[[The New York Times]]'', the University of Mississippi has the seventh-highest share of students from the economic top-one percent among selective public schools.<ref>{{cite news |title=University of Mississippi |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/university-of-mississippi |work=The New York Times |date=January 18, 2017 |access-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-date=March 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310000140/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/university-of-mississippi |url-status=live }}</ref> The median starting salary of a graduate is $47,700, according to ''US News''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-mississippi-2440 |title=University of Mississippi |work=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=June 9, 2018 |archive-date=May 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507222436/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-mississippi-2440 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Named in honor of distinguished Ole Miss alumnus, former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott, the Lott Leadership Institute<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://lottinst.olemiss.edu/about/about-the-institute/|title=About the Institute - Trent Lott Leadership Institute|work=Trent Lott Leadership Institute|access-date=2018-11-27|language=en-US}}</ref> offers a wide range of leadership and outreach programs that work to enrich the lives and enhance the abilities of students and faculty, as well as high school students, students from other colleges and universities, and the community.


Although 54 percent of undergraduates are from Mississippi,<ref name="demo"/> the student body is geographically diverse. As of late 2020, the university's undergraduates represented [[List of counties in Mississippi|all 82 counties]] in Mississippi, 49 states, the [[Washington, D.C.|District of Columbia]], and 86 countries.<ref name="UM news">{{cite web |url=https://news.olemiss.edu/um-releases-enrollment-for-fall-2020/ |title=UM Releases Enrollment for Fall 2020 |last=Stone |first=Lisa |date=November 3, 2020 |website=Ole Miss News |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=July 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719135752/https://news.olemiss.edu/um-releases-enrollment-for-fall-2020/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student success and satisfaction, is 85.7 percent.<ref name="UM news"/> In 2020, the student body included over 1,100 transfer students.<ref name="mini">{{cite web |url=https://irep.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2020/12/Mini-Fact-Book-in-Excel_2020-2021.pdf |title=2020-2021 Mini Fact Book |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723025009/https://irep.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2020/12/Mini-Fact-Book-in-Excel_2020-2021.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
==== Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program ====
UM is a collaborator in the Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://metp.olemiss.edu/|title=Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program|website=Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-27}}</ref>, designed to attract top students to teacher education programs with full scholarships and professional incentives. The goal is to attract the top high school seniors who want to become mathematics and English teachers in Mississippi. Funded by the Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation, the program is designed to create a unique “honors college style” learning experience for high-performing education students and promote collaboration between students and faculty at UM and Mississippi State University.


===Traditions===
'''The World Class Teaching Program'''
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A common greeting on campus is "Hotty Toddy!", which is also used in the school chant. The phrase has no explicit meaning and its origin is unknown.<ref name="hottytoddy"/> The chant was first published in 1926, but "Hotty Toddy" was spelled "Heighty Tighty"; this early spelling has led some to suggest it originated with [[Virginia Tech]]'s regimental band, The Heighty Tighties.<ref name="hottytoddy"/><ref name="yearbook">{{cite web |url=http://theolemissyearbook.com/ole-miss-traditions-what-makes-us-rebels/ |title=Ole Miss Traditions: What Makes Us Rebels |last=Wiggs |first=Hayden |date=October 29, 2020 |website=The Ole Miss |access-date=August 21, 2021 |archive-date=August 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210822004539/http://theolemissyearbook.com/ole-miss-traditions-what-makes-us-rebels/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Other proposed origins are "[[wiktionary:hoity-toity|hoity-toity]]", meaning snobbish,<ref name="toddy"/><ref name="yearbook"/> and the alcoholic drink [[hot toddy]].<ref name="toddy">{{cite news |last=Staff report |date=September 5, 2016 |title=What is Hotty Toddy? Ole Miss chant, cheer also popular Rebel greeting |url=https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2016/09/05/what-is-hotty-toddy-ole-miss-chant-greeting-is-popular-rebel-cheer/ |work=The Oxford Eagle |access-date=September 17, 2021 |archive-date=September 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917210800/https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2016/09/05/what-is-hotty-toddy-ole-miss-chant-greeting-is-popular-rebel-cheer/ |url-status=live }}</ref>


On football game days, the Grove, a {{cvt|10|acre|adj=on}} plot of trees, hosts an elaborate [[Tailgate party|tailgating]] tradition;<ref name="tailgate"/><ref name="grove">{{cite news |last=Ward |first=Doug |date=August 30, 2010 |title=Rebel spell: timeless tailgating tradition |url=https://www.espn.com/travel/news/story?id=5513718 |work=ESPN |access-date=October 2, 2021 |archive-date=June 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626223928/https://www.espn.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref> according to ''The New York Times'', "Perhaps there isn't a word for the ritualized pregame revelry&nbsp;... 'Tailgating' certainly does not do it justice". The tradition began in 1991 when cars were banned from the Grove.<ref name="tailgate"/> Prior to each game, over 2,000 red-and-blue trash cans are placed throughout the Grove. This event is known as "Trash Can Friday". Each barrel marks a tailgating spot.<ref>{{cite news |last=Guizerix |first=Anna |date=September 7, 2018 |title=Dixie Cups: Trash Can Friday is back again |url=https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2018/09/07/dixie-cups-trash-can-friday-is-back-again/ |work=The Oxford Eagle |access-date=September 17, 2021 |archive-date=September 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917214813/https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2018/09/07/dixie-cups-trash-can-friday-is-back-again/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The spots are claimed by tailgaters, who erect a "tent city" of 2,500 shelters.<ref name="tailgate"/><ref name="grove"/> Many of the tents are extravagant, feature chandeliers and fine china, and typically host meals of [[Cuisine of the Southern United States|Southern cuisine]].<ref name="grove"/> To accommodate the crowds, the university maintains elaborate portable bathrooms on [[Semi-trailer truck|18-wheeler]] platforms known as "Hotty Toddy Potties".<ref name="tailgate"/>
The World Class Teaching Program is a special program at the University of Mississippi School of Education designed to provide support to teachers going through the National Board Certification process.<ref>http://education.olemiss.edu/academics/special_programs.html</ref>


===Student organizations===
==== Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College ====
[[File:Ole Miss Band 1925.jpg|thumb|upright=1.6|left|alt=The Ole Miss band in 1925|One of the earliest photographs of the Ole Miss band, "[[The Pride of the South]]" (1925)]]
The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.honors.olemiss.edu/about/|title=About the College – Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College|website=www.honors.olemiss.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-27}}</ref> attracts a diverse body of high-performing students to the University of Mississippi and prepares citizen scholars who are fired by the life of the mind, committed to the public good and driven to find solutions. Established in 1997 through a gift from the Jim Barksdale family, the Honors College merges intellectual rigor with community action. It offers an education similar to that at prestigious private liberal arts schools and universities, but at a far lower cost. Small, discussion-based classes, dedicated faculty and a nurturing staff enable honors students to experience intellectual as well as personal growth.


The University of Mississippi's first sanctioned student organizations, literary societies the Hermaean Society and the Phi Sigma Society, were established in 1849. Weekly meetings, of which attendance was mandatory, were held in the Lyceum until 1853 and then in the chapel.<ref name="sansing63">[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 63.</ref> With the university's emphasis on rhetoric, student-organized public orations on the first Monday of every month were popular. Studies were sometimes canceled so students could attend speeches of visiting politicians such as [[Jefferson Davis]] and [[William L. Sharkey]].<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 65.</ref>
====SECU: SEC Academic Initiative====


In the 1890s, extracurricular and nonintellectual activities proliferated on campus, and interest in oratory and the now-voluntary literary societies diminished.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], pp. 165–166.</ref> Turn-of-the-20th-century student organizations included Cotillion Club, the elite Stag Club, and German Club.<ref name="sansing166"/> In the 1890s, the local [[YMCA]] began publishing a list of the organizations in the ''M-Book''.<ref name="sansing166">[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 166.</ref> As of 2021, the handbook was still provided to students.<ref name="sansing166"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://conflictresolution.olemiss.edu/m-book/ |title=M Book |website=Office of Conflict Resolution and Student Conduct |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 2, 2021 |archive-date=May 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210501150230/https://conflictresolution.olemiss.edu/m-book/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
The University of Mississippi is a member of the SEC Academic Consortium. Now renamed the [[Southeastern Conference#The formation of SECU and SEC academic network|SECU]], the initiative was a collaborative endeavor designed to promote research, scholarship and achievement among the member universities in the [[Southeastern Conference]]. The SECU formed to serve as a means to bolster collaborative academic endeavors of [[Southeastern Conference#Member universities|Southeastern Conference universities]]. Its goals include highlighting the endeavors and achievements of SEC [[Faculty (academic staff)|faculty]], students and its universities and advancing the academic reputation of SEC universities.<ref>{{cite web |title=SECU |url=http://www.secsymposium.com/secu.php|publisher=SEC|accessdate=February 13, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=SECU: The Academic Initiative of the SEC |url=http://www.secdigitalnetwork.com/AcademicConsortium|publisher=SEC Digital Network|accessdate=February 13, 2013 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120721055557/http://www.secdigitalnetwork.com/AcademicConsortium|archivedate=July 21, 2012}}</ref>


The [[Associated Student Body]] (ASB), which was established in 1917,<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 184.</ref> is the university's student government organization. Students are elected to the ASB Senate in the spring semester and leftover seats are voted on in open-seat elections in the fall. Senators can represent registered student organizations such as the Greek councils and sports clubs, or they can run to represent their academic school.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.olemissasb.org/ |title=Associated Student Body |website=Associated Student Body |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=October 3, 2019 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424204213/https://www.olemissasb.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The University of Mississippi's marching band [[The Pride of the South]] performs in-concert and at athletic events. The band was formally organized in 1928,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://band.olemiss.edu/about/ |title=About Us |website=Ole Miss Band—The Pride of the South |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=January 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127193829/https://band.olemiss.edu/about/ |url-status=live }}</ref> but it existed before that date as a smaller organization led by a student director.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://band.olemiss.edu/our-history/ |title=Our History |website=Ole Miss Band—The Pride of the South |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=January 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127200335/https://band.olemiss.edu/our-history/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A [[Phi Beta Kappa]] chapter was established in 2001.<ref name="his"/>
In 2013, the University of Mississippi participated in the SEC Symposium in [[Atlanta, Georgia]] which was organized and led by the [[University of Georgia]] and the [[University of Georgia#UGA Bioenergy Systems Research Institute|UGA Bioenergy Systems Research Institute]]. The topic of the symposium was titled "Impact of the Southeast in the World's Renewable Energy Future."<ref>{{cite web|title=SEC Symposium to address role of Southeast in renewable energy |url=http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/sec-symposium-to-address-role-of-southeast-in-renewable-energy/|publisher=University of Georgia|accessdate=February 13, 2013}}</ref>


===Rankings and accolades===
===Amenities===
[[File:Starship Technologies Mississippi.jpg|thumb|alt=Starship Technologies robots on campus|[[Starship Technologies]] robots on campus. A traditional dorm can be seen in the foreground: larger modern dorms can be seen in the background.]]


Approximately 5,300 students live on campus in thirteen residence halls, two residential colleges, and two apartment complexes.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://studenthousing.olemiss.edu/buildings/ |title=Residence Halls |website=Student Housing |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=November 27, 2018 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424204149/https://studenthousing.olemiss.edu/buildings/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Students are required to live on-campus during their first year.<ref name="usnews">{{cite web |url=https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-mississippi-2440 |title=University of Mississippi |website=U.S. News & World Report |access-date=May 11, 2021 |archive-date=May 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507222436/https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-mississippi-2440 |url-status=live }}</ref> Within residence halls, students designated as [[Resident assistant|community assistants]] provide information and resolve issues.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://studenthousing.olemiss.edu/student-positions/ |title=Student Positions |website=Student Housing |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919000210/https://studenthousing.olemiss.edu/student-positions/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In the early 20th century, the university provided cottages for married students.<ref name="sansing166"/> In 1947, Vet Village was constructed to room the surge in [[World War II]] veteran applicants.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 263.</ref>
{{Infobox US university ranking
| Forbes=367
| USNWR_W = 374
| QS_W = 801-1000
| USNWR_NU=152
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The University of Mississippi provides Oxford University Transit, a shuttle system that is free of charge for students, faculty, and staff.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://olemiss.edu/parking/shuttle.html |title=Shuttle System |website=Department of Parking & Transportation |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210722202725/https://olemiss.edu/parking/shuttle.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In early 2020, [[Starship Technologies]] introduced an automated food delivery consisting of a fleet of 30 robots on campus; it was the first such system of any SEC school.<ref>{{cite news |last=Jackson |first=Wilton |date=February 3, 2020 |title=Day or night, robots navigate campus sidewalks to deliver food to Ole Miss students |url=https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2020/02/03/ole-miss-starship-delivery-robots-first-in-sec-conference-oxford-mississippi/4546451002/ |work=The Clarion Ledger |access-date=March 22, 2021 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424204210/https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2020/02/03/ole-miss-starship-delivery-robots-first-in-sec-conference-oxford-mississippi/4546451002/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Thompson |first=Jake |date=January 22, 2020 |title=Ole Miss Dining introduces new food delivery robots |url=https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2020/01/22/ole-miss-dining-introduces-new-food-delivery-robots/ |work=The Oxford Eagle |access-date=March 22, 2021 |archive-date=January 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119120451/https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2020/01/22/ole-miss-dining-introduces-new-food-delivery-robots/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
The University of Mississippi was No. 18 on the 2012 ''[[Forbes]]'' Best Value Colleges list, part of the annual America's Top Colleges section. It was the only SEC school to make the Top 20 list.<ref>[http://news.olemiss.edu/um-moves-up-in-forbes-listing-of-nations-20-best-college-buys/#.UQeRGPJ0E05 UM Moves Up in Forbes Listing of Nation's 20 Best College Buys]. News.olemiss.edu (August 3, 2012). Retrieved on 2013-08-17.</ref> However, it failed to make the top 300 in best value in 2017.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/value-colleges/list/#tab:rank</ref> For the last 10 years, the ''[[Chronicle of Higher Education]]'' named the University of Mississippi as one of the "Great Colleges to Work For", putting the institution in elite company. The 2018 results, released in the ''Chronicle''{{'}}s annual report on "The Academic Workplace", Ole Miss was among 84 institutions honored from the 253 colleges and universities surveyed.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.olemiss.edu/um-named-among-great-colleges-work/|title=UM Again Named Among 'Great Colleges to Work For' - Ole Miss News|date=2018-07-16|work=Ole Miss News|access-date=2018-11-27|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2018, the Ole Miss campus was ranked the second safest in the SEC and one of the safest in nation.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.olemiss.edu/ums-robust-approach-campus-safety-lands-national-rankings/|title=Robust Approach to Campus Safety Places UM in National Rankings - Ole Miss News|date=2018-03-12|work=Ole Miss News|access-date=2018-11-27|language=en-US}}</ref> ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranks the Professional MBA program at the UM School of Business Administration in the top 50 among American public universities, and the online MBA program ranks in the top 25.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.olemiss.edu/bloomberg-businessweek-ranks-ole-miss-mba-program-top-50/|title=Bloomberg BusinessWeek Ranks Ole Miss MBA Program in Top 50 - Ole Miss News|date=2018-11-14|work=Ole Miss News|access-date=2018-11-27|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.olemiss.edu/ole-miss-online-mba-program-ranks-u-s-news-top-25/|title=Ole Miss Online MBA Program Ranks in U.S. News Top 25 - Ole Miss News|date=2018-01-09|work=Ole Miss News|access-date=2018-11-27|language=en-US}}</ref> All three degree programs at the University of Mississippi's Patterson School of Accountancy are among the top 10 in the 2018 annual national rankings of accounting programs published by the journal Public Accounting Report. The undergraduate and doctoral programs are No. 7, while the master's program is No. 9. The undergraduate and doctoral programs lead the Southeastern Conference in the rankings, and the master's program is second in the SEC. One or more Ole Miss programs have led the SEC in each of the past eight years.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.olemiss.edu/accountancy-programs-maintain-top-10-standing/|title=Accountancy Programs Maintain Top 10 Standing - Ole Miss News|date=2018-10-01|work=Ole Miss News|access-date=2018-11-27|language=en-US}}</ref>


On-campus dining services Catering at UM and the Rebel Market are the only [[Green Restaurant Certification|Certified Green]] restaurants in the state of Mississippi.<ref>{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Edwin |url=https://news.olemiss.edu/ums-lenoir-dining-going-green/ |title=UM Restaurants Going Green |date=July 13, 2016 |website=Ole Miss News |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=August 21, 2021 |archive-date=August 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829013431/https://news.olemiss.edu/ums-lenoir-dining-going-green/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2019, the university opened a {{Convert|98000|sqft|m2|abbr=out|adj=on}} recreation center containing a gym, indoor climbing wall, basketball courts, and other services.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://campusrec.olemiss.edu/southcampusrecreationcenter/ |title=South Campus Recreation Center—Now Open! |website=Campus Recreation |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=August 20, 2021 |archive-date=August 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820164313/https://campusrec.olemiss.edu/southcampusrecreationcenter/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
The Army ROTC program received one of eight prestigious MacArthur Awards in February 2012. Presented by the U.S. Army Cadet Command and the Gen. Douglas MacArthur Foundation, the award recognizes the ideals of "duty, honor and country" as advocated by MacArthur. For its life-changing work in 12 Delta communities, the UM School of Pharmacy won the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy's 2011–12 Lawrence C. Weaver Transformative Community Service Award. AACP presents the award annually to one pharmacy school that not only demonstrates a major commitment to addressing unmet community needs through education, practice and research but also serves as an example of social responsiveness for others. Ole Miss continues to be the premiere destination for college tailgating as the Grove claimed second place in Southern Living's "South's Best Tailgate" contest in 2012. The William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi was honored by the International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies with its 2012 International Award. This accolade from the nonprofit organization devoted to promoting civil and human rights around the world was presented in New Orleans.<ref>[http://news.olemiss.edu/winter-institute-receives-international-award-for-globally-promoting-civil-human-rights/#.UQeUGfJ0E05 Winter Institute Receives International Award for Globally Promoting Civil, Human Rights]. News.olemiss.edu (September 18, 2012). Retrieved on 2013-08-17.</ref>


==Campus==
===Greek life===
[[File:University of Mississippi's Library 2016.jpg|thumb|right|The University of Mississippi Library]]
[[File:St. Anthony Hall Phi Chapter House, University of Mississippi, 1906.jpg|thumb|left|upright|alt=A black and white photograph of a Victorian-style fraternity house|St. Anthony Hall Phi Chapter House, University of Mississippi, 1906]]
The University of Mississippi's main campus is located in [[Oxford, Mississippi|Oxford]]. There are also regional campuses in Booneville, DeSoto, Grenada, and Tupelo.


[[Fraternities and sororities|Greek life]] at the University of Mississippi comprises 33 organizations and around 8,700 affiliated students.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://greeks.olemiss.edu |title=Fraternity & Sorority Life |website=Fraternity & Sorority Life |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 2, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210426080828/https://greeks.olemiss.edu/ |archive-date=April 26, 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref> Greek societies at the University of Mississippi are housed along Fraternity Row and Sorority Row, which were constructed in the 1930s with federal funds.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 253.</ref>
The University of Mississippi in Oxford is the original campus, beginning with only one square-mile of land.<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu">{{Cite web|url=http://ifc.olemiss.edu/chapters/|title=Interfraternity Council - IFC Chapters|last=|first=|date=|website=catalog.olemiss.edu|language=en|access-date=May 10, 2017}}</ref> The main campus today contains around 1,200 acres of land. Also, the University of Mississippi owns a golf course and airport in Oxford.<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu"/> The golf course and airport are considered part of the University of Mississippi, Oxford campus as well.
[[File:University of Mississippi Bondurant Hall Front.jpg|thumb|right|Bondurant Hall, designed by Gates]]
[[File:University of Mississippi Longstreet Hall.jpg|thumb|right|Longstreet Hall, designed by Gates]]


The [[Rainbow Fraternity]], which was founded at the University of Mississippi in 1848, was the first fraternity to be founded in the South.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sigmachiku.com/history-of-fraternities/ |title=History of Fraternities |publisher=Sigma Chi Fraternity |access-date=September 8, 2021 |archive-date=September 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908205318/https://sigmachiku.com/history-of-fraternities/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="rainbow">{{cite news |date=March 28, 1885 |title=Two Secret Societies United—Delta Tau Delta and the Rainbow Society Join Hands. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1885/03/28/102965283.pdf |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307215016/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1885/03/28/102965283.pdf |archive-date=March 7, 2021 |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{efn|group=note|The Rainbow Fraternity merged with [[Delta Tau Delta]] in 1886.<ref name="rainbow"/>}} Other early fraternities established at the university include [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]] (1850), Delta Kappa (1853), [[Delta Psi]] (1854), and Epsilon Alpha (1855).<ref name="sansing63"/> By 1900, a majority of University of Mississippi students were members of a fraternity or a sorority. Non-member students felt excluded on campus and tensions between members and non-members escalated. ''The University Magazine'' denounced the Greek societies as "the most vicious institution that has grown up in any college".<ref name="sansing177">[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 177.</ref> In 1902, [[Lee M. Russell|Lee Russell]], a poor student who was rejected by the fraternities, appeared before the board of trustees to criticize the Greek societies.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], pp. 177–178.</ref>{{efn|group=note|Russell was elected Governor of Mississippi in 1919.<ref name="sansing177"/>}} In response, the board threatened to abolish Greek life if non-member students continued to be ostracized. In 1903, rumors Greek-life members and non-member students were preparing to "meet in combat" appeared.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 178.</ref> Multiple state-legislative investigations were held to address the issue.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], pp. 178–179.</ref> All Greek life at the university was suspended from 1912 to 1926 due to statewide anti-fraternity legislation.<ref name="mshistory">{{cite web |last=Sansing |first=David G. |url=http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/265/index.php?s=extra&id=141 |title=Lee Maurice Russell: Fortieth Governor of Mississippi: 1920-1924 |website=Mississippi History Now |publisher=Mississippi Historical Society |access-date=May 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424204153/http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/265/index.php?s=extra&id=141 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 204.</ref>
The buildings on the main University of Mississippi campus come from the Georgian age of architecture; however, some of the newer buildings today have a more contemporary architecture.<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu"/> The first building built on the Oxford campus is the Lyceum, and is the only original building remaining.<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu"/> The construction of the Lyceum began in 1846 and was completed in 1848.<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu"/> The Lyceum served as a hospital to soldiers in the Civil War.<ref name="Haunted History">{{Cite web|url=https://news.olemiss.edu/haunted-history/|title=Haunted History|website=news.olemiss.edu|language=en-US|access-date=May 10, 2017}}</ref> Also on the campus, the Croft Institute for International Studies and Barnard Observatory were used for soldiers during the civil war.<ref name="Haunted History"/> The Oxford campus of the University of Mississippi contains a lot of history with the Civil War. The campus was used as a hospital, but also after soldiers died, the campus served as a morgue. Where Farley Hall is now located, the prior building was referred to as the "Dead House" where the bodies of deceased soldiers were stored.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thelocalvoice.net/oxford/rediscover-the-battle-of-shiloh/|title=Rediscover the Battle of Shiloh|website=www.thelocalvoice.net|language=en-US|access-date=May 10, 2017}}</ref>


As part of a larger crackdown on embarrassing fraternity incidents, Chancellor [[R. Gerald Turner|Gerald Turner]] ended the traditional Shrimp and Beer Festival in 1984.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], pp. 334–335.</ref> In 1988, [[Phi Beta Sigma]], a black fraternity, was preparing to move into a house on the all-white Fraternity Row when arsonists burned their house. An alumnus helped purchase another house and Fraternity Row was integrated two months later.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], pp. 335–336.</ref> In a 1989 incident, fraternity members dropped naked students painted with racist slurs at the historically black [[Rust College]].<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 336.</ref> In 2014, three fraternity members placed a noose and a Confederate symbol on the Meredith statue,<ref>{{cite news |last=Blinder |first=Alan |date=February 18, 2014 |title=F.B.I. Joins Ole Miss Inquiry After Noose Is Left on Statue |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/19/us/fbi-joins-ole-miss-inquiry-after-noose-is-left-on-statue.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 30, 2021 |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125022344/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/19/us/fbi-joins-ole-miss-inquiry-after-noose-is-left-on-statue.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Blinder |first=Alan |date=September 17, 2015 |title=Man Sentenced to Six Months for Role in Placing Noose on Ole Miss Statue |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/us/man-sentenced-to-six-months-for-role-in-placing-noose-on-ole-miss-statue.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=June 30, 2021 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114055209/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/us/man-sentenced-to-six-months-for-role-in-placing-noose-on-ole-miss-statue.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and in 2019, fraternity members posed with guns in front of an [[Emmett Till]] historical marker.<ref>{{cite news |last=Farzan |first=Antonia Noori |date=July 26, 2019 |title=Ole Miss frat brothers brought guns to an Emmett Till memorial. They're not the first. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/26/ole-miss-emmitt-till-guns-kappa-alpha-fraternity/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=June 30, 2021 |archive-date=February 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210216044831/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/07/26/ole-miss-emmitt-till-guns-kappa-alpha-fraternity/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Architect [[Frank P. Gates]] designed 18 buildings on campus in 1929-1930, mostly in the [[Georgian Revival architecture|Georgian Revival architectural style]], including (Old) University High School, Barr Hall, Bondurant Hall, Farley Hall (also known as Lamar Hall), Faulkner Hall, Hill Hall, Howry Hall, Isom Hall, Longstreet Hall, Martindale Hall, Vardaman Hall, the Cafeteria/Union Building, and the Wesley Knight Field House.<ref name="clarionledgerobit">{{cite news|title=Frank Gates Dies Here; Rites Today|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/185654466/?terms=%22Frank%2BGates%22|accessdate=November 7, 2017|work=The Clarion Ledger|date=January 3, 1975|location=Jackson, Mississippi|page=7|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|registration=yes}}</ref><ref name="missdepartmentgates">{{cite web|title=Gates, Frank P., Co. (b.1895 - d.1975)|url=http://www.apps.mdah.ms.gov/Public/rpt.aspx?rpt=artisanSearch&Name=Gates%2C%20Frank%20P.%2C%20Co.&City=Any&Role=Any|website=[[Mississippi Department of Archives and History]]|accessdate=November 7, 2017}}</ref>


===Media===
Today on the University of Mississippi campus, most of the buildings have been completely renovated or newly constructed. There are currently at least 15 residential buildings on the Oxford campus, with more being built.<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu"/> The Oxford campus is also home to eleven sorority houses and fourteen fraternity houses.<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu"/> The chancellor of The University of Mississippi also lives on the edge of campus.<ref name="catalog.olemiss.edu"/>
The first student publication at the University of Mississippi was ''The University Magazine'', which was founded in 1856 and published by the literary societies.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], pp. 163, 168.</ref> The rivalry between the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State originated from an 1895 condemnation by ''The University Magazine'' of a Mississippi State publication which had written that the University of Mississippi "lacked dignity".<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], pp. 167–168.</ref> The first student newspaper ''The University Record'' began publication in 1898; it and the ''Magazine'' suffered financially and were suspended in 1902.<ref name="sansing168"/>


In 1907, the YMCA and student athletic organization revived the university's newspaper as the ''Varsity Voice''.<ref name="sansing168"/> In 1911, this newspaper was superseded by another student-published newspaper, ''[[The Daily Mississippian]]''.<ref name="sansing168"/><ref name="DM"/> The paper is editorially independent and is the only daily college newspaper in the state. The paper is also published online as ''TheDMonline.com'', with supplementary content.<ref name="DM">{{cite web |url=https://smc.olemiss.edu/daily-mississippian/ |title=The Daily Mississippian |website=Student Media Center |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=June 30, 2021 |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124013635/https://smc.olemiss.edu/daily-mississippian/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
The University of Mississippi campus in Oxford is known for the beauty of the campus. The campus has been recognized multiple years, but most recently, in 2016, ''USA Today'' recognized Ole Miss as the "Most Beautiful Campus".<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite web |url=http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/landscape/ |title=Landscape Services {{!}} University of Mississippi|website=www.olemiss.edu|language=en|access-date=May 10, 2017}}</ref> The campus grounds are kept up through the University of Mississippi's personal landscape service.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>


''NewsWatch'', which was established in 1980, is a student-produced, live newscast and the only local newscast in Lafayette County.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://smc.olemiss.edu/newswatch/ |title=NewsWatch |website=Student Media Center |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=June 30, 2021 |archive-date=November 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124002331/https://smc.olemiss.edu/newswatch/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The University of Mississippi owns and operates [[WUMS]] 92.1 Rebel Radio, which began broadcasting in 1989; it is one of a few university-operated commercial FM radio stations in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://smc.olemiss.edu/rebel-radio/ |title=Rebel Radio |website=Student Media Center |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=June 30, 2021 |archive-date=January 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128060158/https://smc.olemiss.edu/rebel-radio/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
The different satellite campuses that The University of Mississippi has are much smaller than the main campus in Oxford. The satellite campus in Tupelo started running in a larger space in 1972,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/tupelo/about/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070207121146/http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/tupelo/about/index.html|dead-url=yes|archive-date=February 7, 2007|title=The University of Mississippi – Tupelo|website=www.outreach.olemiss.edu|language=en|access-date=May 10, 2017}}</ref> the DeSoto campus opened in 1996,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/desoto/about/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709023905/http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/desoto/about/index.html|dead-url=yes|archive-date=July 9, 2010|title=The University of Mississippi – DeSoto|website=www.outreach.olemiss.edu|language=en|access-date=May 10, 2017}}</ref> and the Grenada campus has been operated on the Holmes Community College campus since 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/grenada/about/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817005805/http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/grenada/about/index.html|dead-url=yes|archive-date=August 17, 2011|title=The University of Mississippi – Grenada|website=www.outreach.olemiss.edu|language=en|access-date=May 10, 2017}}</ref> The University of Mississippi campus and satellite campuses continue to grow. There will continue to be progress in construction to accommodate for the large growth in student population.
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==Athletics==
==Athletics==
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The University of Mississippi's athletic teams participate in the [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] (NCAA), [[Southeastern Conference]] (SEC), [[NCAA Division I|Division I]] as the [[Ole Miss Rebels]].<ref name="usnews"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ncaa.com/schools/ole-miss |title=University of Mississippi |publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association |access-date=April 27, 2021 |archive-date=February 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210204165426/https://www.ncaa.com/schools/ole-miss |url-status=live }}</ref> Women's varsity athletic teams at the University of Mississippi include [[Ole Miss Rebels women's basketball|basketball]], cross country, golf, rifle, soccer, [[Ole Miss Rebels softball|softball]], [[Ole Miss Rebels tennis|tennis]], track and field, and volleyball. Men's varsity teams are [[Ole Miss Rebels baseball|baseball]], [[Ole Miss Rebels men's basketball|basketball]], cross country, [[Ole Miss Rebels football|football]], golf, [[Ole Miss Rebels tennis|tennis]], and track and field.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://olemisssports.com |title=Sports |website=Ole Miss Sports |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=March 18, 2020 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424203149/https://olemisssports.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[Archie Manning]]'s uniform number, 18, is the official speed limit of the Oxford campus.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/travel/faulkner-and-football-in-oxford-miss.html?pagewanted=all|work=The New York Times |first=Dwight |last=Garner |title=Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss|date=October 14, 2011}}</ref> In March 2012, Ross Bjork was named the university's new athletics director.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.olemisssports.com/genrel/032212aac.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016132430/http://www.olemisssports.com/genrel/032212aac.html|dead-url=no|archive-date=October 16, 2012|title=Bjork Press Conference" March 22, 2012}}</ref>
The other speed limit on campus is 10, for the uniform number of Eli Manning (Archie's son).


In 1893, professor [[Alexander Bondurant]] organized the university's football team.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 170.</ref> As collegiate athletic teams began to receive names, a contest result selected the name "Mississippi Flood" in 1929. Due to the lasting harm of the [[Great Mississippi Flood of 1927]], however, the name was changed to the "Rebels" in 1936.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 255.</ref> The first prime-time telecast of college football was of a 1969 Ole Miss game.<ref>[[#Sansing|Sansing (1999)]], p. 331.</ref> The team has won six SEC championships.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ncaa.com/history/football/fbs |title=NCAA Football Championship History |publisher=National Collegiate Athletic Association |access-date=March 18, 2020 |archive-date=December 29, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229004449/http://www.ncaa.com/history/football/fbs |url-status=live }}</ref> Major [[College rivalry|rivals]] include [[LSU Tigers football|Louisiana State University]] and [[Mississippi State Bulldogs football|Mississippi State University]], which Ole Miss plays against in the [[Magnolia Bowl]] and [[Egg Bowl]], respectively.<ref>{{cite news |last=Landry |first=Kennedy |date=September 25, 2018 |title=Magnolia Bowl: The history of the LSU-Ole Miss rivalry |url=https://www.lsureveille.com/daily/magnolia-bowl-the-history-of-the-lsu-ole-miss-rivalry/article_9ebab620-c101-11e8-b7c2-9fc373ca7356.html |work=Reveille |access-date=August 3, 2021 |archive-date=August 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804022111/https://www.lsureveille.com/daily/magnolia-bowl-the-history-of-the-lsu-ole-miss-rivalry/article_9ebab620-c101-11e8-b7c2-9fc373ca7356.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Rollins |first=Khadrice |date=November 23, 2017 |title=Why Is Ole Miss vs. Mississippi State Called the Egg Bowl? |url=https://www.si.com/college/2017/11/23/ole-miss-mississippi-state-egg-bowl-history |magazine=Sports Illustrated |access-date=August 3, 2021 |archive-date=August 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804021619/https://www.si.com/college/2017/11/23/ole-miss-mississippi-state-egg-bowl-history |url-status=live }}</ref> Other rivalries include [[Ole Miss–Tulane football rivalry|Tulane]] and [[Ole Miss–Vanderbilt football rivalry|Vanderbilt]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://tulanegreenwave.com/news/2015/5/21/Tulane_Football_adds_Oklahoma_Ole_Miss_to_Future_Schedules |title=Tulane Football adds Oklahoma, Ole Miss to Future Schedules |date=May 21, 2015 |website=Tulane Green Wave |publisher=Tulane University |access-date=August 5, 2021 |archive-date=August 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805163709/https://tulanegreenwave.com/news/2015/5/21/Tulane_Football_adds_Oklahoma_Ole_Miss_to_Future_Schedules |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Ashoff |first=Edward |date=September 4, 2014 |title=Ole Miss, Vandy share unheralded rivalry |url=https://www.espn.com/blog/sec/post/_/id/87863/ole-miss-and-vandy-share-unheralded-rivalry |publisher=ESPN |access-date=August 5, 2021 |archive-date=August 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210805163707/https://tags.bluekai.com/site/24667?ret=html&phint=pageName%3Despn%3Ancf%3Asec%3Ablog&phint=channel%3Despn%3Ancf&phint=eVar34%3D&phint=events%3Devent3&phint=prop1%3Despn&phint=swid%3DA9D0EA8A-2198-4993-C9C5-4F03EE55F573&phint=unid%3D70469a9b-7ed7-466b-b49b-a04ace066646&phint=prop4%3Dblog&phint=prop9%3Dstory%3Ascroll%2Bnext_story&phint=prop23%3Dkeim_john&phint=prop25%3Dfootball&phint=prop26%3Dncf&phint=prop30%3Dpremium-no&phint=prop32%3D&phint=prop45%3D&phint=__bk_t%3DNick%20Saban%27s%20open-door%20policy%20a%20factor%20in%20Alabama%27s%20draft%20success%20-%20SEC%20Blog-%20ESPN&phint=__bk_k%3D&phint=__bk_l%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.com%2Fblog%2Fsec%2Fpost%2F_%2Fid%2F131421%2Fnick-sabans-open-door-policy-a-factor-in-alabamas-draft-success&phint=__bk_v%3D3.1.10&limit=10&r=6654406 |url-status=live }}</ref> Football alumni [[Archie Manning|Archie]] and [[Eli Manning]], both quarterbacks, are honored on campus with speed limits set to 18 and 10&nbsp;mph; their respective jersey numbers.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/travel/faulkner-and-football-in-oxford-miss.html?pagewanted=all |work=The New York Times |first=Dwight |last=Garner |title=Faulkner and Football in Oxford, Miss |date=October 14, 2011 |access-date=January 16, 2012 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424204208/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/travel/faulkner-and-football-in-oxford-miss.html?pagewanted=all |url-status=live }}</ref>
==Student life==
There are hundreds of students organizations, including 25 religious organizations.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dos.orgsync.com/stuorgshome|title=Office of Leadership & Advocacy|website=dos.orgsync.com|language=en|access-date=2018-11-27}}</ref>


[[File:Ole-miss logo from NCAA.svg |left|alt=Ole Miss Rebels logo|thumb|The official logo of the Ole Miss Rebels]]
===Student media===
* ''[[The Daily Mississippian]]'' (''DM'') is the student-published newspaper of the university, established in 1911. Although it is located on the Ole Miss campus, it is operated largely as an independent newspaper run by students. The ''DM'' is the only college newspaper in the state that is published five times a week. The staff consists of approximately 15 editors, about 25 writers and photographers, and a five-person student sales staff. Daily circulation is 12,000. The award-winning publication celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2011–12.
* ''TheDMonline.com'' is the online version of ''The Daily Mississippian'' and also includes original content that supplements the print publication - photo galleries, videos, breaking news and student blogs. Page views average up to 360,000 a month.
* ''The Ole Miss'' student yearbook is a 368-page full-color book produced by students. It has won many awards, including a Gold Crown.<ref>[http://www.thedmonline.com/theolemiss/ ''The Ole Miss''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803010718/http://www.thedmonline.com/theolemiss/ |date=August 3, 2008 }}</ref>
* [[WUMS-FM]] 92.1 Rebel Radio, is a FCC commercially licensed radio station. It is one of only a few student-run, commercially licensed radio stations in the nation, with a signal stretching about 60 miles across North Mississippi. Its format features Top 40, alternative and college rock, news and talk shows.
* ''NewsWatch'' is a student-produced, live newscast, and the only local newscast in Lafayette County. Broadcast through the Metrocast cable company, it is live at 5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and livestreamed on newswatcholemiss.com.


Outside football, Ole Miss baseball has won seven overall SEC championships and three [[Southeastern Conference baseball tournament|SEC Tournaments]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.secsports.com/article/12878767/baseball-sec-champions |title=Baseball SEC Champions |website=SEC |access-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627221424/https://www.secsports.com/article/12878767/baseball-sec-champions |url-status=live }}</ref> They have played in the [[College World Series|Men's College World Series]] six times,<ref>{{cite news |date=June 23, 2022 |title=Ole Miss baseball advances to College World Series finals |url=https://cm.clarionledger.com/offers-reg/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.clarionledger.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fcollege%2Fole-miss%2F2022%2F06%2F23%2Fole-miss-baseball-college-world-series-championship-advance-dylan-delucia%2F7713914001%2F |work=The Clarion Ledger |access-date=June 26, 2022 |archive-date=June 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626223928/https://cm.clarionledger.com/offers-reg/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.clarionledger.com%2Fstory%2Fsports%2Fcollege%2Fole-miss%2F2022%2F06%2F23%2Fole-miss-baseball-college-world-series-championship-advance-dylan-delucia%2F7713914001%2F |url-status=live }}</ref> and won the [[2022 Men's College World Series|2022 series]].<ref>{{cite news |last=ESPN News Services |date=June 26, 2022 |title=Ole Miss Rebels sweep Oklahoma Sooners to win first Men's College World Series title |url=https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/34152995/ole-miss-rebels-sweep-oklahoma-sooners-win-first-men-college-world-series-title |publisher=ESPN |access-date=June 26, 2022 |archive-date=June 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220626223928/https://www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/34152995/ole-miss-rebels-sweep-oklahoma-sooners-win-first-men-college-world-series-title |url-status=live }}</ref> The men's tennis team has won five overall [[NCAA Men's Tennis Championship|SEC championships]] and has had one NCAA Singles Champion—[[Devin Britton]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://a.espncdn.com/SEC/media/2017/Men's%20Tennis%20Record%20Book.pdf |title=Men's Tennis Record Book |publisher=ESPN |access-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627022728/http://a.espncdn.com/SEC/media/2017/Men%27s%20Tennis%20Record%20Book.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |date=May 25, 2009 |title=Freshmen win singles titles |url=https://www.espn.com/college-sports/news/story?id=4204793 |publisher=ESPN |access-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627215819/https://www.espn.com/college-sports/news/story?id=4204793 |url-status=live }}</ref> The women's basketball team has won one overall SEC championship.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.secsports.com/article/12884811/women-basketball-sec-champions |title=Women's Basketball SEC Champions |website=SEC |access-date=June 30, 2021 |archive-date=June 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604011931/https://www.secsports.com/article/12884811/women-basketball-sec-champions |url-status=live }}</ref> Notable former players include [[Armintie Price]], who holds the SEC record for steals in a game and was the third pick in the [[2007 WNBA draft]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.secsports.com/article/12208945/armintie-price-herrington-ole-miss |title=SEC Legend Spotlight: Armintie Price Herrington, Ole Miss |last=SEC Staff |website=SEC |access-date=June 30, 2021 |archive-date=February 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150228191004/http://www.secsports.com/article/12208945/armintie-price-herrington-ole-miss |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Jennifer Gillom]], 1986 SEC Female Athlete of the Year and 1988 Olympic Gold Medalist.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://msfame.com/inductees/jennifer-gillom/ |title=Jennifer Gillom |website=Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame |access-date=June 30, 2021 |archive-date=January 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116050416/https://msfame.com/inductees/jennifer-gillom/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Men's basketball has won two [[SEC men's basketball tournament|SEC Tournaments]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.secsports.com/article/12878811/men-basketball-sec-champions |title=Men's Basketball SEC Champions |website=SEC |access-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210627221914/https://www.secsports.com/article/12878811/men-basketball-sec-champions |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2021, Ole Miss women's golf won its first [[NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships|NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Nichols |first=Beth Ann |date=May 26, 2021 |title=Historymakers: Ole Miss women's golf claims school's first recognized NCAA Championship |url=https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2021/05/26/ole-miss-womens-golf-first-ncaa-championship/ |work=Golfweek |publisher=USA Today |access-date=June 27, 2021 |archive-date=May 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210529165925/https://golfweek.usatoday.com/2021/05/26/ole-miss-womens-golf-first-ncaa-championship/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
These publications and broadcasts are part of the S. Gale Denley Student Media Center at Ole Miss.


===Student housing===
==Notable people==
Approximately 5,300 students live on campus in 13 residence halls, two residential colleges and two apartment complexes<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://studenthousing.olemiss.edu/buildings/|title=Buildings - Student Housing|work=Student Housing|access-date=2018-11-27|language=en-US}}</ref>. All freshmen (students with less than 30 credit hours) are required to live in campus housing their first year unless they meet certain commuter guidelines.<ref>[http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/stu_housing/apply.html#2 Student Housing – The University of Mississippi] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001194411/http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/stu_housing/apply.html#2 |date=October 1, 2013 }}</ref> The Department of Student Housing is an auxiliary, meaning that it is self-supporting and does not receive appropriations from state funds. All rent received from students pays for housing functions such as utilities, staff salaries, furniture, supplies, repairs, renovations and new buildings.<ref>[http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/stu_housing/about.html Student Housing – The University of Mississippi] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208075026/http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/stu_housing/about.html |date=December 8, 2010 }}</ref> Most of the residence staff members are students, including day-to-day management, conduct board members and maintenance personnel.<ref name="olemiss.edu">[http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/stu_housing/index.html Student Housing and Residence Life – The University of Mississippi] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131001134154/http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/stu_housing/index.html |date=October 1, 2013 }}</ref> Upon acceptance to the University of Mississippi, a housing application is submitted with an application fee.<ref name="olemiss.edu"/> The cost of on-campus housing ranges from approximately $4,000 to more than $8,000 (the highest price being that of the newly renovated Village apartments) per academic or calendar year, depending on the occupancy and room type.<ref name="olemiss.edu"/> Students (with more than 30 credit hours) have the option to live off campus in unaffiliated housing.<ref name="olemiss.edu"/>


===Faculty===
{| class="wikitable"
[[File:Robert Marston 4.jpg|thumb|right|upright=.5|[[Robert Q. Marston]], Director of the [[National Institutes of Health]], served as medical school dean.]]
|-
! Residence hall !! Year built / renovation !! Type
|-
| Brown || Built 1961 / renovated NA || Traditional
|-
| Burns || Built 2011 / renovated NA || Contemporary
|-
| Crosby || Built 1971 / renovated NA || Traditional
|-
| Campus Walk || Built 2001 / renovated NA || Apartment
|-
| Deaton || Built 1952 / renovated 2001 || Traditional
|-
| Hefley || Built 1959 / renovated 2001 || Traditional
|-
| Kincannon || Closed fall 2016 || Traditional
|-
| Luckyday Residential College || Built 2010 / renovated NA || Contemporary
|-
| Martin || Built 1969 / renovated NA || Traditional
|-
| Minor || Built 2011 / renovated NA || Contemporary
|-
| Northgate || Built 1950s / renovated unknown || Apartment
|-
| Pittman || Built 2011 / renovated NA || Contemporary
|-
| Residential Hall 1 || Built 2015 / renovated NA || Contemporary
|-
| Residential Hall 2 || Built 2016 / renovated NA || Contemporary
|-
| Residential Hall 3 || Built 2016 / renovated NA || Contemporary
|-
| Residential College South || Built 2009 / renovated NA || Contemporary
|-
| Stewart || Built 1963 / renovated NA || Traditional
|-
| Stockard || Built 1969 / renovated NA || Traditional
|}


As of the 2020–2021 academic year, there were—excluding those of UMMC—1,092 professors, of whom 424 were tenured. At this time, there were 592 male and 500 female professors.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://irep.olemiss.edu/fall-2020-2021-enrollment/ |title=Fall 2020-2021 Enrollment |website=Office of Institutional Research, Effectiveness, and Planning |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=January 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127032227/https://irep.olemiss.edu/fall-2020-2021-enrollment/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Graduate students, undergraduate students aged 25 or older, students who are married, and students with families may live in the Village Apartments. The complex consists of six two story buildings, and is adjacent to the University of Mississippi Law School. Undergraduates over 25, married students, and graduate students may live in the one-bedroom apartments. Graduate students and students over 25 may live in studio style apartments. Students with children may live in the two-bedroom apartments.<ref>"[http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/stu_housing/village.html Village]." University of Mississippi. Retrieved on February 2, 2012.</ref> Children living in the Village Apartments are zoned to the [[Oxford School District]].<ref>"[http://map.olemiss.edu/ Campus Map]." University of Mississippi. Retrieved on February 2, 2012.</ref> Residents are zoned to Bramlett Elementary School (PreK-1), Oxford Elementary School (2-3), Della Davidson Elementary School (4-5), Oxford Middle School (6-8), and [[Oxford High School (Mississippi)|Oxford High School]] (9-12).<ref>"[http://www.oxford.k12.ms.us/domain/7 Our Schools] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221190031/http://www.oxford.k12.ms.us/domain/7 |date=2012-02-21 }}." [[Oxford School District]]. Retrieved on February 2, 2012.</ref>


With the early emphasis on classical studies, multiple notable classicists including [[George Tucker Stainback]], [[Wilson Gaines Richardson]], and [[William Hailey Willis]], have held teaching positions at the University of Mississippi.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://classics.olemiss.edu/history/the-early-years/ |title=From the Beginning to 'The War' |website=Department of Classics |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=June 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210604170429/https://classics.olemiss.edu/history/the-early-years/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/9241-willis-william-hailey |title=Willis, William Hailey |website=Database of Classical Scholars |publisher=Rutgers School of Arts and Science |access-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-date=July 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715150442/https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/9241-willis-william-hailey |url-status=live }}</ref> Archeologist [[David Moore Robinson]], who is credited with discovering the ancient city [[Olynthus]], also taught classics at the university.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/9064-robinson-david-moore |title=Robinson, David Moore |website=Database of Classical Scholars |publisher=Rutgers School of Arts and Science |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=May 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190526130412/https://dbcs.rutgers.edu/all-scholars/9064-robinson-david-moore |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://classics.olemiss.edu/videocast-david-moore-robinson-the-archaeologist-as-collector-news-the-american-school-of-classical-studies-at-athens/ |title=Videocast – "David Moore Robinson: The Archaeologist as Collector" / News / The American School of Classical Studies at Athens |website=Department of Classics |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-date=November 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127135048/https://classics.olemiss.edu/videocast-david-moore-robinson-the-archaeologist-as-collector-news-the-american-school-of-classical-studies-at-athens/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Former Mississippi Governor [[Ronnie Musgrove]] was a political science lecturer,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://umfoundation.com/main/2013/09/09/musgroves-expand-legacy-with-gift/ |title=Musgroves Expand Legacy with Gift |date=September 13, 2013 |website=The University of Mississippi Foundation |access-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723182002/https://umfoundation.com/main/2013/09/09/musgroves-expand-legacy-with-gift/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Kyle Duncan (judge)|Kyle Duncan]] was an assistant law professor prior to his appointment to the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Severino |first=Callie Campbell |date=September 28, 2017 |title=Who is Kyle Duncan? |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/who-kyle-duncan/ |work=National Review |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=March 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210326070033/https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/who-kyle-duncan/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Thompson |first=Jake |date=March 6, 2020 |title=Now in Session: U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals hears cases at Ole Miss |url=https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2020/03/06/now-in-session-u-s-fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals-hears-cases-at-ole-miss/ |work=The Oxford Eagle |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126030130/https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2020/03/06/now-in-session-u-s-fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals-hears-cases-at-ole-miss/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Landon Garland]] taught astronomy and philosophy before becoming the first president of [[Vanderbilt University]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6ns1ck6 |title=Garland, Landon C. (Landon Cabell), 1810-1895 |website=Social Networks and Archival Context |access-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-date=December 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191201080713/https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6ns1ck6 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vanderbilt.edu/chancellor/history/ |title=History of the Office |website=Office of the Chancellor |date=February 2, 2010 |publisher=Vanderbilt University |access-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-date=December 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051115/https://www.vanderbilt.edu/chancellor/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Actor [[James Best]], who is best known for his work on ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'', was an artist in residence.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.olemiss.edu/wtva-former-um-artist-residence-passes-away/ |title=WTVA: Former UM Artist-in-Residence Passes Away |last=Whittington |first=Ryan |date=April 7, 2015 |website=Ole Miss News |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-date=August 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827081405/http://news.olemiss.edu/wtva-former-um-artist-residence-passes-away/ |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Robert Q. Marston]], director of the [[National Institutes of Health]], served as the dean of the medical school,<ref>{{cite journal |last=McGuigan |first=James W. |date=2005 |title=Robert Quarles Marston, M.D. 1923–1999 |journal=Transactions of the American Clinical & Climatological Association |volume=116 |pages=lx-lxiii |pmid=16555601 |pmc=1473135 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/rm/feature/biographical-information |title=Brief Chronology |website=Regional Medical Programs |date=March 12, 2019 |publisher=US National Library of Medicine |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=March 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318085806/https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/rm/feature/biographical-information |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Eugene W. Hilgard]], considered the father of [[soil science]], taught chemistry at Ole Miss.<ref>[[#Pittman Jr.|Pittman Jr. (1985)]], p. 26.</ref> Other notable scientific faculty include psychologist [[David H. Barlow]] and physicist [[Mack A. Breazeale]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bu.edu/psych/profile/david-h-barlow/ |title=David Barlow |publisher=Boston University |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=February 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223061118/http://www.bu.edu/psych/profile/david-h-barlow/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.olemiss.edu/breazeale-obit/ |title=Acoustics Scientist Mack Breazeale Dies at 79 |date=September 18, 2009 |website=Ole Miss News |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723045836/https://news.olemiss.edu/breazeale-obit/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Greek life===
Despite the relatively small number of Greek-letter organizations on campus, a third of all undergraduates participate in Greek life at Ole Miss. The tradition of Greek life on the Oxford campus is a deep-seated one. In fact, the first fraternity founded in the South was the [[Rainbow Fraternity]], founded at Ole Miss in 1848. The fraternity merged with [[Delta Tau Delta]] in 1886.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1885/03/28/102965283.pdf|title=TWO SECRET SOCIETIES UNITED. - DELTA TAU DELTA AND THE RAINBOW SOCIETY JOIN HANDS. - View Article - NYTimes.com|date=March 28, 1885|publisher=|accessdate=April 30, 2016}}</ref> [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]] followed shortly after at Ole Miss in 1850, as the first to have a house on campus in Mississippi. [[Delta Gamma]] Women's Fraternity was founded in 1873 at the Lewis School for Girls in nearby Oxford. All Greek life at Ole Miss was suspended from 1912 to 1926 due to statewide anti-fraternity legislation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/265/index.php?s=extra&id=141|title=Mississippi History Now - Lee Maurice Russell: Fortieth Governor of Mississippi: 1920-1924|publisher=|accessdate=May 29, 2015}}</ref>


===Alumni===
Today, sorority chapters are very large, with some boasting over 400 active members. Recruitment is fiercely competitive and potential sorority members are encouraged to secure personal recommendations from Ole Miss sorority alumnae to increase the chances of receiving an invitation to join one of the eleven NPC sororities on campus. Fraternity recruitment is also fierce, with only 14 active IFC chapters on campus.
{{Main|List of University of Mississippi notable alumni}}
[[File:Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner.jpg|thumb|upright=.75|left|alt=William Faulkner, Nobel Prize-winning novelist.|[[William Faulkner]], novelist who won the 1949 [[Nobel Prize in Literature]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1949/summary/ |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 |website=The Nobel Prize |publisher=Nobel Foundation |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-date=June 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200602015135/https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1949/summary/ |url-status=live }}</ref>]]


In addition to William Faulkner,<ref>{{cite news |last=Harpaz |first=Beth J. |date=April 19, 2017 |title=Exploring Oxford, Mississippi, from Faulkner's Rowan Oak to the Ole Miss campus |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2017/04/19/oxford-mississippi-william-faulkner-ole-miss/ |work=The Denver Post |access-date=March 21, 2021 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424204159/https://www.denverpost.com/2017/04/19/oxford-mississippi-william-faulkner-ole-miss/ |url-status=live }}</ref> notable writers who attended the University of Mississippi include [[Florence Mars]],<ref>[[#Dollar|Dollar (2015)]], p. 28.</ref> [[Patrick D. Smith]],<ref>[[#Lloyd|Lloyd (1980)]], p. 414.</ref> [[Stark Young]],<ref>[[#Lloyd|Lloyd (1980)]], p. 485.</ref> and [[John Grisham]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |date=May 31, 2017 |title=Plot Twist! John Grisham's New Thriller Is Positively Lawyerless |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/books/review/john-grisham-camino-island.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 1, 2021 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112013046/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/books/review/john-grisham-camino-island.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Alumni in film include [[Emmy Awards|Emmy Award]]-winning actor [[Gerald McRaney]] and [[Tate Taylor]], director of ''[[The Help (film)|The Help]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://news.olemiss.edu/blog-ole-miss-gerald-mcraney-jack-pendarvis-take-home-emmy-awards/ |title=Ole Miss' Gerald McRaney and Jack Pendarvis Take Home Emmy Awards |last=Hector |first=Emily |date=September 20, 2017 |website=Ole Miss News |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210704191249/https://news.olemiss.edu/blog-ole-miss-gerald-mcraney-jack-pendarvis-take-home-emmy-awards/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Dodes |first=Rachel |date=August 5, 2011 |title=An Unknown, With Leverage |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903366504576486460342694934 |work=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=October 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012125837/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424053111903366504576486460342694934 |url-status=live }}</ref> Musicians who studied at the university include [[Mose Allison]] and [[Grammy Awards|Grammy Award]]-winner [[Glen Ballard]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Chinen |first=Nate |date=November 15, 2016 |title=Mose Allison, a Fount of Jazz and Blues, Dies at 89 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/arts/music/mose-allison-a-font-of-jazz-and-blues-dies-at-89.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 25, 2021 |archive-date=April 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425223817/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/arts/music/mose-allison-a-font-of-jazz-and-blues-dies-at-89.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://libarts.olemiss.edu/grammy-winner-glen-ballard-inducted-into-um-hall-of-fame/ |title=Grammy Winner Glen Ballard Inducted into UM Hall of Fame |website=College of Liberal Arts |date=March 16, 2009 |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=August 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809110310/https://libarts.olemiss.edu/grammy-winner-glen-ballard-inducted-into-um-hall-of-fame/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Athlete graduates include 12-time [[Grand Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] tennis champion [[Mahesh Bhupathi]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://olemisssports.com/sports/2018/7/20/sports-m-tennis-archive-bhupathi-champion-html.aspx |title=Mahesh Bhupathi |website=Ole Miss Sports |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=July 1, 2021 |archive-date=March 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307191624/https://olemisssports.com/sports/2018/7/20/sports-m-tennis-archive-bhupathi-champion-html.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> NFL quarterbacks [[Archie Manning]] and [[Eli Manning]], [[New York Yankees]] catcher [[Jake Gibbs]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Anderson |first=Seph |date=May 21, 2013 |title=Exclusive: Ole Miss Football, Baseball Great Jake Gibbs Shares Memories |url=https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1645632-exclusive-ole-miss-football-baseball-great-jake-gibbs-shares-memories |work=Bleacher Report |access-date=August 11, 2021 |archive-date=August 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812002044/https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1645632-exclusive-ole-miss-football-baseball-great-jake-gibbs-shares-memories |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Michael Oher]], NFL offensive lineman and subject of the film ''[[The Blind Side (film)|The Blind Side]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Scott |first=A.O. |date=November 18, 2009 |title=Two Films, Two Routes From Poverty |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/movies/22scott.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 26, 2021 |archive-date=April 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427010433/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/movies/22scott.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Additionally, three [[Miss America]]s and one [[Miss USA]] are among the alumni.<ref>{{cite news |last=Watkins |first=Billy |date=December 9, 2014 |title=Mary Ann Mobley, Mississippi's first Miss America, has died |url=https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/12/09/mary-ann-mobley-dies/20163687/ |work=The Clarion Ledger |access-date=March 21, 2021 |archive-date=December 10, 2014 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20141210012458/http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2014/12/09/mary-ann-mobley-dies/20163687/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=McGrath |first=Anne |date=September 10, 1986 |title='More Nervous This Year': Miss America 1986 |url=https://apnews.com/article/cb1a293ee330444819add1b1c0116037 |work=Associated Press |access-date=March 21, 2021 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424204155/https://apnews.com/article/cb1a293ee330444819add1b1c0116037 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Guizerix |first=Anna |date=November 10, 2020 |title=Ole Miss graduate Asya Branch crowned Miss USA 2020 |url=https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2020/11/10/ole-miss-graduate-asya-branch-crowned-miss-usa-2020/ |work=The Oxford Eagle |access-date=March 21, 2021 |archive-date=April 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424204203/https://www.oxfordeagle.com/2020/11/10/ole-miss-graduate-asya-branch-crowned-miss-usa-2020/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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The University of Mississippi's alumni include five [[United States Senate|US senators]] and ten [[Governor (United States)|governors]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olemissalumni.com/notablealumnilawandpolitics/ |title=Notable Alumni: Law and Politics |website=Ole Miss Alumni Organization |access-date=April 5, 2021 |archive-date=April 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425091134/http://www.olemissalumni.com/notablealumnilawandpolitics/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Other public servant graduates include [[Supreme Court of Mississippi|Mississippi Supreme Court]] Chief Justices [[Sydney M. Smith]] and [[Bill Waller Jr.]],<ref name="Smith-OSR">{{Cite book |last=Rowland |first=Dunbar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z8sGAQAAIAAJ&q=sydney |title=The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Volume 5 |date=1923 |publisher=Department of Archives and History |language=en |pages=87–89 |access-date=February 8, 2022 |archive-date=February 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208212106/https://books.google.com/books?id=z8sGAQAAIAAJ&q=sydney |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://law.olemiss.edu/um-law-alum-chief-justice-waller-retires-after-21-years-on-ms-supreme-court/ |title=UM Law Alum, Chief Justice Waller Retires after 21 Years on MS Supreme Court |date=March 4, 2019 |website=University of Mississippi School of Law |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=July 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210705010207/https://law.olemiss.edu/um-law-alum-chief-justice-waller-retires-after-21-years-on-ms-supreme-court/ |url-status=live }}</ref> US Secretary of the Navy [[Ray Mabus]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Boyer |first=Peter J. |date=February 28, 1988 |title=The Yuppies of Mississippi; How They Took Over the Statehouse |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/28/magazine/the-yuppies-of-mississippi-how-they-took-over-the-statehouse.html |work=The New York Times Magazine |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=March 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309031211/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/28/magazine/the-yuppies-of-mississippi-how-they-took-over-the-statehouse.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Schmidt |first=Michael S. |date=July 17, 2016 |title=Navy Secretary Ray Mabus Knows a Thing or 30 About First Pitches |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/sports/baseball/navy-secretary-ray-mabus-first-pitches.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=July 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210705010217/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/18/sports/baseball/navy-secretary-ray-mabus-first-pitches.html |url-status=live }}</ref> White House Press Secretary [[Larry Speakes]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Well |first=Martin |date=January 10, 2014 |title=Larry Speakes, former Reagan deputy press secretary, dies at 74 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/reagan-spokesman-larry-speakes-dies-at-74/2014/01/10/2e113276-7a4f-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=November 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128041552/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/reagan-spokesman-larry-speakes-dies-at-74/2014/01/10/2e113276-7a4f-11e3-8963-b4b654bcc9b2_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and Dominican Prime Minister [[Roosevelt Skerrit]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dominicaconsulategreece.com/roosevelt-skerrit-prime-minister-of-dominica/ |title=The Honourable Roosevelt Skerrit – Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica |publisher=Commonwealth of Dominica Consulate of Greece |access-date=August 29, 2021 |archive-date=January 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128092357/https://dominicaconsulategreece.com/roosevelt-skerrit-prime-minister-of-dominica/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Notable academics include [[Pomona College]] president [[E. Wilson Lyon]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Arnold |first=Roxanne |date=March 5, 1989 |title=E.W. Lyon, 84; Ex-President of Pomona College |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-05-mn-509-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=July 4, 2021 }}</ref> [[Pulitzer Prize for History|Pulitzer Prize]]-winning [[Harvard]] professor [[Thomas K. McCraw]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Weber |first=Bruce |date=November 6, 2012 |title=Thomas K. McCraw, Historian Who Enlivened Economics, Dies at 72 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/business/thomas-k-mccraw-historian-who-enlivened-economics-dies-at-72.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=January 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126103932/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/business/thomas-k-mccraw-historian-who-enlivened-economics-dies-at-72.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Mercer University]] president [[James Bruton Gambrell]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/gambrell-james-bruton |title=Gambrell, James Bruton |website=Handbook of Texas |publisher=Texas State Historical Association |access-date=July 4, 2021 |archive-date=July 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210705010148/https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/gambrell-james-bruton |url-status=live }}</ref> Notable physicians include [[Arthur Guyton]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Lavietes |first=Stuart |date=April 14, 2003 |title=Dr. Arthur Guyton, Author and Researcher, Dies at 83 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/us/dr-arthur-guyton-author-and-researcher-dies-at-83.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 10, 2021 |archive-date=July 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210710185648/https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/14/us/dr-arthur-guyton-author-and-researcher-dies-at-83.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[American Medical Association]] head [[Edward Hill (physician)|Edward Hill]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olemissalumni.com/alumni-spotlight-dr-ed-hill/ |title=Alumni Spotlight: Dr. Ed Hill |website=Ole Miss Alumni Association |publisher=University of Mississippi |access-date=August 12, 2021 |archive-date=August 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812201205/https://www.olemissalumni.com/alumni-spotlight-dr-ed-hill/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Thomas F. Frist Sr.]], co-founder of [[Hospital Corporation of America]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Kenneth N. |last=Gilpin |date=January 8, 1998 |title=Dr. Thomas Frist Sr., HCA Founder, Dies at 87 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/08/business/dr-thomas-frist-sr-hca-founder-dies-at-87.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 22, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200907232721/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/08/business/dr-thomas-frist-sr-hca-founder-dies-at-87.html |archive-date=September 7, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> Alumnus [[William W. Parsons (NASA)|William Parsons]] served as director of [[NASA]]'s [[Stennis Space Center]] and later that of [[Kennedy Space Center]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/biographies/parsons.html |title=William W. (Bill) Parsons |publisher=NASA |access-date=August 28, 2021 |archive-date=August 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829011012/https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/about/biographies/parsons.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
;NPC sororities
* [[Alpha Delta Pi]], 1961–1995, 2013–present
* [[Alpha Omicron Pi]], 1958
* [[Alpha Phi]], 2015–present
* [[Chi Omega]], 1899–1912, 1926–present
* [[Delta Delta Delta]], 1904–1912, 1926–present
* [[Delta Gamma]], 1927–1931, 1938–present
* [[Kappa Delta]], 1927
* [[Kappa Kappa Gamma]], 1947
* [[Phi Mu]], June 1926
* [[Pi Beta Phi]], 1962
Inactive chapters:
* [[Alpha Xi Delta]], 1971, inactive since 1976
* [[Delta Zeta]], 1928, inactive since 1953
* [[Zeta Tau Alpha]], 1939–1986, recolonized 1989; inactive since 1999
* [[Kappa Alpha Theta]], 1979, closing December 2018<ref>http://thedmonline.com/theta-leaving-campus</ref>
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;IFC fraternities
* [[Alpha Tau Omega]], 1927
* [[Beta Theta Pi]], 1879
* [[Chi Psi]], 1858–2007, 2013–present
* [[Delta Psi]], 1855
* [[Kappa Alpha Order]], 1900
* [[Kappa Sigma]], 1926
* [[Phi Delta Theta]], 1877
* [[Phi Kappa Psi]], 1857
* [[Phi Kappa Tau]], 1969
* [[Pi Kappa Alpha]], 1927
* [[Sigma Chi]], 1857
* [[Sigma Nu]], 1927
* [[Sigma Pi]], 1957–1971, 1974–1991, 2009–present
* [[Pi Kappa Phi]], 1927, 2014–present


==Notes and references==
Inactive chapters:
* [[Alpha Sigma Phi|Phi Pi Phi]], 1927, merged with Alpha Sigma Phi in 1938, currently inactive
* [[Delta Kappa Epsilon]], 1850, currently inactive
* [[Delta Tau Delta]], 1886–1912, 1926–1942, currently inactive
* [[Phi Epsilon Pi]], 1935, merged with Zeta Beta Tau nationally in 1961, currently inactive
* [[Phi Gamma Delta]], 1855, 1868–1879, 1994–2000, currently inactive
* [[Phi Kappa Sigma]], 1859, 1949 currently inactive
* [[Phi Kappa Theta]], 1971–1988, currently inactive
* [[Sigma Alpha Epsilon]], 1866-2017, closed
* [[Sigma Phi Epsilon]], 1927–2014, closed
* [[Tau Kappa Epsilon]], colonized in 1984, currently inactive
* [[Zeta Beta Tau]], colonized in the 1980s, currently inactive
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===Notes===
;NPHC fraternities and sororities
{{notelist|group=note}}
* [[Alpha Kappa Alpha]], 1974
* [[Alpha Phi Alpha]], 1978
* [[Delta Sigma Theta]], 1974
* [[Iota Phi Theta]], 2008
* [[Kappa Alpha Psi]], 1983
* [[Omega Psi Phi]], 1973
* [[Phi Beta Sigma]], 1975
* [[Sigma Gamma Rho]], 1994
* [[Zeta Phi Beta]], 1976


===Citations===
; Other fraternities and sororities
{{Reflist}}
* [[Alpha Phi Omega]], 1948–1982, 2004–present
* [[Beta Upsilon Chi]], 2007
* [[Omega Phi Alpha]], 2003
* [[Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia]], 1962
* [[Sigma Alpha Iota]], 1937
* [[Sigma Phi Lambda]], 2007
* [[Alpha Kappa Psi]], 2000
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==Works cited==
===Associated Student Body===
{{Refbegin|30em}}
The Associated Student Body (ASB) is the Ole Miss student government organization. The student body, excluding the Medical Center, includes 18,121 undergraduates, 2,089 graduate students, 357 law students and 323 students in the Doctor of Pharmacy program. African-Americans comprise 12.8 percent of the student body.<ref><nowiki>https://irep.olemiss.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/98/2018/02/Mini-Fact-Book-in-Excel_2017-2018.pdf</nowiki>    </ref>
*{{cite book |last=Barrett |first=Russell H. |date=1965 |title=Integration at Ole Miss |publisher=Quadrangle Books |location=Chicago |asin=B0007DELMI |ref=Barrett}}

*{{cite journal |last=Bryant |first=Nick |date=Autumn 2006 |title=Black Man Who Was Crazy Enough to Apply to Ole Miss |journal=The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education |issue=53 |pages=60–71 |jstor=25073538 |ref=Bryant}}
==Notable alumni==
*{{cite book |first=J. A. |last=Cabaniss |title=The University of Mississippi; Its First Hundred Years |year=1949 |publisher=University & College Press Of Mississippi |isbn=9780878050000 |ref=Cabaniss}}
{{Main|List of University of Mississippi notable alumni}}
*{{cite book |last=Cohodas |first=Nadine |date=1997 |title=The Band Played Dixie |publisher=Free Press |isbn=9780684827216 |ref=Cohodas}}
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*{{cite journal |last1=Dollar |first1=Charles M. |date=Spring–Summer 2015 |title=Florence Latimer Mars: A Courageous Voice Against Racial Injustice in Neshoba County, Mississippi (1923-2006) |url=http://www.mississippihistory.org/sites/default/files/spring_summer_2015_final.pdf |journal=The Journal of Mississippi History |volume=LXXVII |issue=1 & 2 |pages=1–24 |ref=Dollar |access-date=July 3, 2021 |archive-date=October 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009054721/http://www.mississippihistory.org/sites/default/files/spring_summer_2015_final.pdf |url-status=live}}
* Nobel Prize-winning novelist [[William Faulkner]], who attended the university but did not graduate, served as the university's postmaster from 1921 to 1924.<ref>{{cite web|title=William Faulkner Quits His Post Office Job in Splendid Fashion with a 1924 Resignation Letter|publisher=Openculture|date=September 30, 2012|url=http://www.openculture.com/2012/09/william_faulkner_tells_his_post_office_boss_to_stick_it_1924.html}}</ref> In 1929, Faulkner wrote ''[[As I Lay Dying (novel)|As I Lay Dying]]'' in the [[University of Mississippi Power House]], where he worked as a fireman and night watchman.<ref>{{cite web |last=Spillman|first=Rob|title=On William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying|publisher=PEN America|date=October 15, 2012|url=http://www.pen.org/nonfiction/william-faulkner%E2%80%99s-i-lay-dying}}</ref>
*{{cite journal |last=Fowler |first=Richard |date=December 1941 |title=The University of Mississippi |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4604602 |journal=BIOS |publisher=Beta Beta Beta Biological Society |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=213–215 |jstor=4604602 |ref=Fowler |access-date=April 5, 2021 |archive-date=June 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210606011533/https://www.jstor.org/stable/4604602 |url-status=live}}
* Best-selling [[legal thriller]] writer [[John Grisham]] received his Juris Doctor degree at [[University of Mississippi School of Law|Ole Miss Law]].<ref name="John Grisham- Bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.jgrisham.com/bio/|title=Bio - John Grisham|publisher=|accessdate=May 29, 2015}}</ref>
* {{cite book |last=Heymann |first=C. Davis |title=RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy |year=1998 |publisher=Dutton Adult |isbn=9780525942177 |ref=Heymann}}
* [[United States Senator]]s [[Trent Lott]], [[Roger Wicker]] and [[Thad Cochran]] earned their undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Mississippi, and Senator [[Jeanne Shaheen]] earned a master's degree.
*{{cite book |first=Charles |last=Eagles |title=The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss |year=2009 |publisher=The University of North Carolina Press |isbn=9780807832738 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/priceofdefiancej00eagl |ref=Eagles}}
* [[National Football League|NFL]] quarterback [[Archie Manning]] attended Ole Miss and played football for the Rebels.
*{{cite book |last=Lloyd |first=James B. |date=1980 |title=Lives of Mississippi Writers, 1817-1967 |location=Jackson, Mississippi |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |ref=Lloyd}}
* Manning's youngest son, [[National Football League|NFL]] quarterback [[Eli Manning]], a two-time Super Bowl champion, also played at Ole Miss.
*{{cite journal |last=Pittman |first=Walter E. Jr. |date=1985 |title=Eugene W. Hilgard and Scientific Education in Mississippi |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24138437 |journal=Earth Sciences History |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=26–32 |doi=10.17704/eshi.4.1.b8653w6k36620834 |jstor=24138437 |bibcode=1985ESHis...4...26P |ref=Pittman Jr. |access-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-date=July 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210723143438/https://www.jstor.org/stable/24138437 |url-status=live}}
* [[Mahesh Bhupathi]], tennis player and winner of 4 Grand Slam doubles titles.
*{{cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=Gene |last2=Klibanoff |first2=Hank |title=The Race Beat |publisher=Vintage Books |year=2006 |isbn=9780679735656 |ref=Roberts}}
* The university has produced three [[Miss America]]s: [[Susan Akin]], [[Mary Ann Mobley]] and [[Lynda Lee Mead]].
*{{cite book |author1-link=David Sansing |first=David |last=Sansing |title=The University of Mississippi: A Sesquicentennial History |year=1999 |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |isbn=9781578060917 |ref=Sansing}}
* [[Charlie's Angels|Charlie's Angel]] [[Kate Jackson]] and longtime ''[[As the World Turns]]'' star [[Anthony Herrera]] attended the university.
*{{cite book |last1=Scheips |first1=Paul J. |title=The Role of Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1945–1992 |year=2005 |publisher=Center of Military History, U.S. Army |location=Washington, D.C. |isbn=9780160723612 |url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/books/030/30-20/cmh_pub_30-20.pdf |access-date=May 8, 2021 |archive-date=March 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210311165404/https://history.army.mil/html/books/030/30-20/CMH_Pub_30-20.pdf |url-status=live}}
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==See also==
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*[[Mississippi Teacher Corps]] – based at the university
*[[Insight Park]]

==Further reading==
* {{cite article
|title=Removing Confederate Symbols Is a Step, but Changing a Campus Culture Can Take Years
|first=Katherine
|last=Mangan
|date=June 25, 2015
|magazine=[[Chronicle of Higher Education]]
|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Removing-Confederate-Symbols/231141}}
* {{cite article
|first=Bryant
|last=Nick
|date=Autumn 2006
|title=Black Man Who Was Crazy Enough to Apply to Ole Miss
|journal=Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
|volume=53
|pages=60–71}}

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University of Mississippi
MottoPro scientia et sapientia (Latin)
Motto in English
"For knowledge and wisdom"
TypePublic research university
EstablishedFebruary 24, 1844; 180 years ago (February 24, 1844)
Endowment$840 million (2023)
Budget$670 million (2024)[1]
ChancellorGlenn Boyce
ProvostNoel E. Wilkin
Students24,710 (for 2023-2024 year)[2]
Location,
CampusRemote town[3], 3,497 acres (14.15 km2)
NicknameRebels
Sporting affiliations
Websiteolemiss.edu

The University of Mississippi (byname Ole Miss) is a public research university in Oxford, Mississippi, United States, with a medical center in Jackson. It is Mississippi's oldest public university and is the state's largest by enrollment.[4]

The Mississippi Legislature chartered the university on February 24, 1844, and in 1848 admitted its first 80 students. During the Civil War, the university operated as a Confederate hospital and narrowly avoided destruction by Ulysses S. Grant's forces. In 1962, during the civil rights movement, a race riot occurred on campus when segregationists tried to prevent the enrollment of African American student James Meredith. The university has since taken measures to improve its image. The university is closely associated with writer William Faulkner and owns and manages his former Oxford home Rowan Oak, which with other on-campus sites Barnard Observatory and Lyceum–The Circle Historic District, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Ole Miss is classified as "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". It is one of 33 institutions participating in the National Sea Grant Program and also participates in the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program. Its research efforts include the National Center for Physics Acoustics, the National Center for Natural Products Research, and the Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research. The university operates the country's only federally contracted Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved cannabis facility. It also operates interdisciplinary institutes such as the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Its athletic teams compete as the Ole Miss Rebels in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) Division I Southeastern Conference.

The university's alumni, faculty, and affiliates include 27 Rhodes Scholars, 10 governors, 5 US senators, a head of government, and a Nobel Prize Laureate. Other alumni have received accolades in the arts such as Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, and Pulitzer Prizes. Its medical center performed the first human lung transplant and animal-to-human heart transplant.

History

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Founding and early history

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Frederick A. P. Barnard, a spectacled and bearded man
The Lyceum in 1861
Frederick A. P. Barnard, the last antebellum chancellor, and the Lyceum in 1861

The Mississippi Legislature chartered the University of Mississippi on February 24, 1844.[5] Planners selected an isolated, rural site in Oxford as a "sylvan exile" that would foster academic studies and focus.[6] In 1845, residents of Lafayette County donated land west of Oxford for the campus and the following year, architect William Nichols oversaw construction of an academic building called the Lyceum, two dormitories, and faculty residences.[5] On November 6, 1848, the university, offering a classical curriculum, opened to its first class of 80 students,[6][7] most of whom were children of elite slaveholders, all of whom were white, and all but one of whom were from Mississippi.[6][8] For 23 years, the university was Mississippi's only public institution of higher learning[9] and for 110 years, its only comprehensive university.[10] In 1854, the University of Mississippi School of Law was established, becoming the fourth state-supported law school in the United States.[11]

Early president Frederick A. P. Barnard sought to increase the university's stature, placing him in conflict with the more-conservative board of trustees.[12] The only result of Barnard's hundred-page 1858 report to the board was the university head's title being changed to "chancellor".[13] Barnard was a Massachusetts-born graduate of Yale University; his northern background and Union sympathies made his position contentious—a student assaulted his slave and the state legislature investigated him.[12] Following the election of US President Abraham Lincoln in 1860, Mississippi became the second state to secede; the university's mathematics professor Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar drafted the articles of secession.[14] Students organized into a military company called the "University Greys", which became Company A, 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment in the Confederate States Army.[15] Within a month of the Civil War's outbreak, only five students remained at the university, and by late 1861, it was closed. In its final action, the board of trustees awarded Barnard a doctorate of divinity.[15]

Within six months, the campus had been converted into a Confederate hospital; the Lyceum was used as the hospital and a building that had stood on the modern-day site of Farley Hall operated as its morgue.[16] In November 1862, the campus was evacuated as General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces approached. Although Kansan troops destroyed much of the medical equipment, a lone remaining professor persuaded Grant against burning the campus.[17][note 1] Grant's forces left after three weeks and the campus returned to being a Confederate hospital. Over the war's course, more than 700 soldiers were buried on campus.[19]

Post-war

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A woman in collegiate garb
The University of Mississippi was the first college in the Southeast to hire a female faculty member: Sarah McGehee Isom in 1885.

The University of Mississippi reopened in October 1865.[19] To avoid rejecting veterans, the university lowered admission standards and decreased costs by eliminating tuition and allowing students to live off-campus.[7] The student body remained entirely white: in 1870 the chancellor declared that he and the entire faculty would resign rather than admit "negro" students.[20] In 1882, the university began admitting women[21] but they were not permitted to live on campus or attend law school.[7] In 1885, the University of Mississippi hired Sarah McGehee Isom, becoming the first southeastern US college to hire a female faculty member.[7][22] Nearly 100 years later, in 1981, the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies was established in her honor.[7][22]

The university's byname "Ole Miss" was first used in 1897, when it won a contest of suggestions for a yearbook title.[23] The term originated as a title domestic slaves used to distinguish the mistress of a plantation from "young misses".[24] Fringe origin theories include it coming from a diminutive of "Old Mississippi",[25][26][27] or from the name of the "Ole Miss" train that ran from Memphis to New Orleans.[23][28] Within two years, students and alumni were using "Ole Miss" to refer to the university.[29]

Between 1900 and 1930, the Mississippi Legislature introduced bills aiming to relocate, close, or merge the university with Mississippi State University. All such legislation failed.[30] During the 1930s, the governor of Mississippi Theodore G. Bilbo was politically hostile toward the University of Mississippi, firing administrators and faculty, and replacing them with his friends[31] in the "Bilbo purge".[32] Bilbo's actions severely damaged the university's reputation, leading to the temporary loss of its accreditation. Consequently, in 1944, the Constitution of Mississippi was amended to protect the university's board of trustees from political pressure.[31] During World War II, the University of Mississippi was one of 131 colleges and universities that participated in the national V-12 Navy College Training Program, which offered students a path to a Navy commission.[33]

Integration

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James Meredith accompanied by federal officials on either side before the columns of the Lyceum
James Meredith accompanied by federal officials on campus

In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.[34] Eight years after the Brown decision, all attempts by African American applicants to enroll had failed.[35][36] Shortly after the 1961 inauguration of President John F. Kennedy, James Meredith—an African American Air Force veteran and former student at Jackson State University—applied to the University of Mississippi.[37] After months of obstruction by Mississippi officials, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Meredith's enrollment, and the Department of Justice under Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy entered the case on Meredith's behalf.[35][38] On three occasions, either governor Ross R. Barnett or lieutenant governor Paul B. Johnson Jr. physically blocked Meredith's entry to the campus.[39][40]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held both Barnett and Johnson Jr. in contempt, and issued fines exceeding $10,000 for each day they refused to enroll Meredith.[41] On September 30, 1962, President Kennedy dispatched 127 U.S. Marshals, 316 deputized U.S. Border Patrol agents, and 97 federalized Federal Bureau of Prisons personnel to escort Meredith.[42] After nightfall, far-right former Major General Edwin Walker and outside agitators arrived, and a gathering of segregationist students before the Lyceum became a violent mob.[43][44][45] Segregationist rioters threw Molotov cocktails and bottles of acid, and fired guns at federal marshals and reporters.[46][47] 160 marshals would be injured, with 28 receiving gunshot wounds,[48] and two civilians—French journalist Paul Guihard and Oxford repairman Ray Gunter—were killed by gunfire.[49][50] Eventually, 13,000 soldiers arrived in Oxford and quashed the riot.[51] One-third of the federal officers—166 men—were injured, as were 40 federal soldiers and National Guardsmen.[50] More than 30,000 personnel were deployed, alerted, and committed in Oxford—the most in American history for a single disturbance.[52]

Meredith enrolled and attended a class on October 1.[53] By 1968, Ole Miss had around 100 African American students,[54] and by the 2019–2020 academic year, African Americans constituted 12.5 percent of the student body.[55]

Recent history

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A white house set among trees
The university owns Rowan Oak, former home of Nobel Prize-winning writer William Faulkner and a National Historic Landmark.[56]

In 1972, Ole Miss purchased Rowan Oak, the former home of Nobel Prize–winning writer William Faulkner.[57][58] The building has been preserved as it was at Faulkner's death in 1962. Faulkner was the university's postmaster in the early 1920s and wrote As I Lay Dying (1930) at the university powerhouse. His Nobel Prize medallion is displayed in the university library.[59] The university hosted the inaugural Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference in 1974. In 1980, Willie Morris became the university's first writer in residence.[7]

In 2002, Ole Miss marked the 40th anniversary of integration with a yearlong series of events, including an oral history of the university, symposiums, a memorial, and a reunion of federal marshals who served at the campus.[60][61] In 2006, the 44th anniversary of integration, a statue of Meredith was dedicated on campus.[62] Two years later, the site of the 1962 riots was designated as a National Historic Landmark.[63] The university also held a yearlong program to mark the 50th anniversary of integration in 2012.[64] The university hosted the first presidential debate of 2008—the first presidential debate held in Mississippi—between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama.[65][66]

Ole Miss retired its mascot Colonel Reb in 2003, citing its Confederate imagery.[67] Although a grass-roots movement to adopt Star Wars character Admiral Ackbar of the Rebel Alliance gained significant support,[68][69] Rebel Black Bear, a reference to Faulkner's short story The Bear, was selected in 2010.[70][71] The Bear was replaced with another mascot, Tony the Landshark, in 2017.[71][72] Beginning in 2022, football coach Lane Kiffin's dog Juice became the de facto mascot.[73][74] In 2015, the university removed the Mississippi State Flag, which included the Confederate battle emblem,[75] and in 2020, it relocated a prominent Confederate monument.[76]

Campus

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Oxford campus

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Panoramic view of the courtyard behind the Lyceum
Panoramic view of the courtyard behind the Lyceum (1848)

The University of Mississippi's Oxford campus is partially located in Oxford and partially in University, Mississippi, a census-designated place.[77] The main campus is situated at an altitude of around 500 feet (150 m), and has expanded from one square mile (260 ha) of land to around 1,200 acres (1.9 sq mi; 490 ha). The campus' buildings are largely designed in a Georgian architectural style; some of the newer buildings have a more contemporary architecture.[78]

Barnard Observatory
Barnard Observatory (1859) was designed to house the world's largest telescope.

At the campus' center is "The Circle", which consists of eight academic buildings organized around an ovaloid common. The buildings include the Lyceum (1848), the "Y" Building (1853), and six later buildings constructed in a Neoclassical Revival style.[63] The Lyceum was the first building on the campus and was expanded with two wings in 1903. According to the university, the Lyceum's bell is the oldest academic bell in the United States.[78] Near the Circle is The Grove, a 10-acre (4.0 ha) plot of land that was set aside by chancellor Robert Burwell Fulton c. 1893, and hosts up to 100,000 tailgaters during home games.[79][80] Barnard Observatory, which was constructed under Chancellor Barnard in 1859, was designed to house the world's largest telescope. Due to the Civil War's outbreak, however, the telescope was never delivered and was instead acquired by Northwestern University.[78][81] The observatory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[82][83] The first major building built after the Civil War was Ventress Hall, which was constructed in a Victorian Romanesque style in 1889.[78]

From 1929 to 1930, architect Frank P. Gates designed 18 buildings on campus, mostly in Georgian Revival architectural style, including (Old) University High School, Barr Hall, Bondurant Hall, Farley Hall (also known as Lamar Hall), Faulkner Hall, and Wesley Knight Field House.[84][85] During the 1930s, the many building projects at the campus were largely funded by the Public Works Administration and other federal entities.[86] Among the notable buildings built in this period is the dual-domed Kennon Observatory (1939).[87] Two large modern buildings—the Ole Miss Union (1976) and Lamar Hall (1977)—caused controversy by diverging from the university's traditional architecture.[88] In 1998, the Gertrude C. Ford Foundation donated $20 million to establish the Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts,[89] which was the first building on campus to be solely dedicated to the performing arts.[90] As of 2020, the university was constructing a 202,000-square-foot (18,800 m2) STEM facility, the largest single construction project in the campus' history.[91] The university owns and operates the University of Mississippi Museum, which comprises collections of American fine art, Classical antiquities, and Southern folk art, as well as historic properties in Oxford.[92] Ole Miss also owns University-Oxford Airport, which is located north of the main campus.[78]

North Mississippi Japanese Supplementary School, a Japanese weekend school, is operated in conjunction with Ole Miss, with classes held on campus.[93][94] It opened in 2008 and was jointly established by several Japanese companies and the university. Many children have parents who are employees at Toyota facilities in Blue Springs.[95]

Satellite campuses

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In 1903, the University of Mississippi School of Medicine was established on the Oxford campus. It offered only two years of medical courses; students had to attend an out-of-state medical school to complete their degrees.[97] This form of medical education continued until 1955, when the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) was established on a 164-acre (66 ha) site in Jackson, Mississippi, and the School of Medicine was relocated there.[98] A nursing school was established in 1956 and since then, other health-related schools have been added. As of 2021, UMMC offers medical and graduate degrees.[97] In addition to the medical center, the university has satellite campuses in Booneville,[99] DeSoto,[100] Grenada,[101] Rankin,[102] and Tupelo.[103]

Organization and administration

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Table featuring schools of the University of Mississippi
School Founded Ref.
College of Liberal Arts
1848
[104]
School of Law
1854
[11]
School of Engineering
1900
[105]
School of Education
1903
[106]
School of Medicine
1903
[97]
School of Pharmacy
1908
[107]
School of Business Administration
1917
[108]
School of Journalism and New Media
1947
[109]
School of Nursing
1948
[110]
School of Health Related Professions
1971
[111]
School of Dentistry
1975
[112]
Patterson School of Accountancy
1979
[113]
School of Applied Sciences
2001
[114]
School of Graduate Studies in the Health Sciences
2001
[115]

Divisions of the university

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The University of Mississippi consists of 15 schools.[116] The largest undergraduate school is the College of Liberal Arts.[104] Graduate schools include a law school, a school of business administration, an engineering school, and a medical school.[117]

Administration

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The University of Mississippi's chief administrative officer is the chancellor,[118] a position Glenn Boyce has held since 2019.[119] The chancellor is supported by vice-chancellors who administer areas such as research and intercollegiate athletics. The provost oversees the university's academic affairs,[120] and a dean oversees each school, as well as general studies and the honors college.[121] A faculty senate advises the administration.[122]

The board of trustees of the Mississippi State Institutions of Higher Learning is the constitutional governing body that is responsible for policy and financial oversight of the University of Mississippi and the state's other seven public secondary institutions. the board consists of 12 members, who serve staggered nine-year terms and represent the state's three Supreme Court Districts. The board appoints the commissioner of higher education, who administers its policies.[123]

Finances

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As of April 2021, the University of Mississippi's endowment was $775 million.[124] The university's budget for fiscal year 2019 was over $540 million.[125] Less than 13% of operating revenues are funded by the state of Mississippi,[124] and the university relies heavily on private donations. The Ford Foundation has donated nearly $65 million to the Oxford campus and UMMC.[126]

Academics

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The University of Mississippi is the state's largest university by enrollment and is considered the state's flagship university.[127][128][129][130] In 2015, the student-faculty ratio was 19:1. Of its classes, 47.4 percent have fewer than 20 students. The most popular subjects include marketing, education and teaching, accountancy, finance, pharmaceutical sciences, and administration.[131] To receive a bachelor's degree, students must have at least 120 semester hours with passing grades and a cumulative 2.0 GPA.[132]

The university also offers graduate degrees such as PhDs and masters of art, science, and fine arts.[133] The university maintains the Mississippi Teacher Corps, a free graduate program that educates teachers for critical-needs public schools.[134]

Taylor Medals, which were first awarded in 1905, are presented to exceptional students nominated by the faculty. The medals are named in honor of Marcus Elvis Taylor, who graduated in 1871 and are given to less than one percent of each class.[27]

Research

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A series of shallow ponds arranged in a grid and surrounded by forest. There is light snow on the ground.
Research ponds at the University of Mississippi Field Station

Ole Miss is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".[135][136] According to the National Science Foundation, the university spent $137 million on research and development in 2018, ranking it 142nd in the nation.[137] It is one of the 33 colleges and universities participating in the National Sea Grant Program and participates in the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program.[138] Since 1948, the university has been a member of the Oak Ridge Associated Universities.[139]

In 1963, University of Mississippi Medical Center surgeons, led by James Hardy, performed the world's first human lung transplant, and in 1964 the world's first animal-to-human heart transplant. Because Hardy researched transplantation, consisting of primate studies during the previous nine years, the heart of a chimpanzee was used for the transplant.[140][141]

In 1965, the university established its Medicinal Plant Garden, which the School of Pharmacy uses for drug research.[142] Since 1968, the school has operated the only legal marijuana farm and production facility in the United States. The National Institute on Drug Abuse contracts to the university production of cannabis for use in approved research studies and for distribution to the seven surviving medical marijuana patients grandfathered into the Compassionate Investigational New Drug program.[143] The facility is the only source of marijuana medical researchers can use to conduct Food and Drug Administration-approved tests.[144][145]

The National Center for Physics Acoustics (NCPA), which Congress established in 1986, is located on campus.[78][117][146] In addition to conducting research, the NCPA houses the Acoustical Society of America's archives.[146] The university also operates the University of Mississippi Field Station, which includes 223 research ponds and supports long-term ecological research,[147] and hosts the Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research and the Mississippi Law Research Institute.[117][148][149][150] In 2012, the university completed Insight Park, a research park that "welcomes companies commercializing University of Mississippi research".[151][152]

Special programs

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Trent Lott Leadership Institute
Panoramic view of the Trent Lott Leadership Institute

Honors education at the University of Mississippi, consisting of lectures by distinguished academics, began in 1953. In 1974, this program became the University Scholars Program, and in 1983, the University Honors Program was created and honors-core courses were offered.[153] In 1997, Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale and wife Sally donated $5.4 million to establish the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College (SMBHC),[154] which provides a capstone project—a senior thesis—and endowed scholarships.[153]

In 1977, the university established its Center for the Study of Southern Culture with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which is housed in the College of Liberal Arts. The center provides for interdisciplinary studies of Southern history and culture.[155] In 2000, the university established the Trent Lott Leadership Institute, which is named after alumnus and then-US Senate majority leader Trent Lott. The institute was funded with large corporate donations from MCI Inc., Lockheed Martin, and other companies.[156] In addition to leadership initiatives, the institute offers a BA degree in Public Policy Leadership.[157]

The Center for Intelligence and Security Studies (CISS) delivers academic programming on intelligence analysis and engages in applied research and consortium building with government, private, and academic partners.[158] In 2012, the United States Director of National Intelligence designated CISS as an Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence (CAE), becoming one of 29 such college programs in the United States.[159] Other special programs include the Haley Barbour Center for Manufacturing Excellence—established jointly by the university and Toyota in 2008—and the Chinese Language Flagship Program (simplified Chinese: 中文旗舰项目; traditional Chinese: 中文旗艦項目; pinyin: Zhōngwén Qíjiàn Xiàngmù).[160][161] The Croft Institute for International Studies, which was founded in 1998, provides the only international studies undergraduate program in Mississippi.[162]

The University of Mississippi is a member of the SEC Academic Consortium, which has since been renamed SECU. The collaborative initiative was designed to promote research, scholarship, and achievement among the member universities in the Southeastern Conference.[163][164] In 2013, the university participated in the SEC Symposium on renewable energy in Atlanta, Georgia, which was organized and led by the University of Georgia and the UGA Bioenergy Systems Research Institute.[165]

In 2021, actor Morgan Freeman and Professor Linda Keena donated $1 million to the University of Mississippi to create the Center for Evidence-Based Policing and Reform, which will provide law-enforcement training and seek to improve engagement between law enforcement and communities.[166][167]

Rankings and accolades

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Academic rankings
National
Forbes[168]231
U.S. News & World Report[169]171 (tie)
Washington Monthly[170]304
WSJ/College Pulse[171]278
Global
U.S. News & World Report[172]428 (tie)

In U.S. News & World Report's 2023 rankings, the University of Mississippi was tied for 163rd place among national universities and 88th among public universities.[173] In 2023, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the professional MBA program at the School of Business Administration #72 nationally,[174] and the online MBA program in the top 25.[175] As of 2018, all three degree programs at the Patterson School of Accountancy were among the top 10 accounting programs according to the Public Accounting Report.[176]

Since 2012, the Chronicle of Higher Education has named the University of Mississippi as one of the "Great Colleges to Work For". In the 2018 results, released in the Chronicle's annual report on "The Academic Workplace", the university was among 84 institutions honored from the 253 colleges and universities surveyed.[177] In 2018, the university's campus was ranked the second-safest in the SEC and one of the safest in the U.S.[178]

As of 2019, the university has had 27 Rhodes Scholars.[179] Since 1998, it has 10 Goldwater Scholars, seven Truman Scholars, 18 Fulbright Scholars, one Marshall Scholar, three Udall Scholars, two Gates Cambridge Scholars, one Mitchell Scholar, 19 Boren Scholars, one Boren fellow, and one German Chancellor Fellowship.[180]

Student life

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Class of 1861
The class of 1861

Student body

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As of the 2023–2024 academic year, the student body consists of 18,533 undergraduates and 2,264 in graduate programs.[181] Around 57 percent of the undergraduate student body were female.[182][183] As of Fall 2023, minorities composed 23.5 percent of the body.[181] The median family income of students is $116,600, and over half of students come from the top 20 percent. According to The New York Times, the University of Mississippi has the seventh-highest share of students from the economic top-one percent among selective public schools.[184] The median starting salary of a graduate is $47,700, according to US News.[185]

Although 54 percent of undergraduates are from Mississippi,[55] the student body is geographically diverse. As of late 2020, the university's undergraduates represented all 82 counties in Mississippi, 49 states, the District of Columbia, and 86 countries.[186] The average freshman retention rate, an indicator of student success and satisfaction, is 85.7 percent.[186] In 2020, the student body included over 1,100 transfer students.[183]

Traditions

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Are You Ready?
Hell Yeah! Damn Right!
Hotty Toddy, Gosh Almighty,
Who The Hell Are We? Hey!
Flim Flam, Bim Bam
Ole Miss By Damn!

— The Hotty Toddy chant[187]

A common greeting on campus is "Hotty Toddy!", which is also used in the school chant. The phrase has no explicit meaning and its origin is unknown.[187] The chant was first published in 1926, but "Hotty Toddy" was spelled "Heighty Tighty"; this early spelling has led some to suggest it originated with Virginia Tech's regimental band, The Heighty Tighties.[187][188] Other proposed origins are "hoity-toity", meaning snobbish,[189][188] and the alcoholic drink hot toddy.[189]

On football game days, the Grove, a 10-acre (4.0 ha) plot of trees, hosts an elaborate tailgating tradition;[80][190] according to The New York Times, "Perhaps there isn't a word for the ritualized pregame revelry ... 'Tailgating' certainly does not do it justice". The tradition began in 1991 when cars were banned from the Grove.[80] Prior to each game, over 2,000 red-and-blue trash cans are placed throughout the Grove. This event is known as "Trash Can Friday". Each barrel marks a tailgating spot.[191] The spots are claimed by tailgaters, who erect a "tent city" of 2,500 shelters.[80][190] Many of the tents are extravagant, feature chandeliers and fine china, and typically host meals of Southern cuisine.[190] To accommodate the crowds, the university maintains elaborate portable bathrooms on 18-wheeler platforms known as "Hotty Toddy Potties".[80]

Student organizations

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The Ole Miss band in 1925
One of the earliest photographs of the Ole Miss band, "The Pride of the South" (1925)

The University of Mississippi's first sanctioned student organizations, literary societies the Hermaean Society and the Phi Sigma Society, were established in 1849. Weekly meetings, of which attendance was mandatory, were held in the Lyceum until 1853 and then in the chapel.[192] With the university's emphasis on rhetoric, student-organized public orations on the first Monday of every month were popular. Studies were sometimes canceled so students could attend speeches of visiting politicians such as Jefferson Davis and William L. Sharkey.[193]

In the 1890s, extracurricular and nonintellectual activities proliferated on campus, and interest in oratory and the now-voluntary literary societies diminished.[194] Turn-of-the-20th-century student organizations included Cotillion Club, the elite Stag Club, and German Club.[195] In the 1890s, the local YMCA began publishing a list of the organizations in the M-Book.[195] As of 2021, the handbook was still provided to students.[195][196]

The Associated Student Body (ASB), which was established in 1917,[197] is the university's student government organization. Students are elected to the ASB Senate in the spring semester and leftover seats are voted on in open-seat elections in the fall. Senators can represent registered student organizations such as the Greek councils and sports clubs, or they can run to represent their academic school.[198] The University of Mississippi's marching band The Pride of the South performs in-concert and at athletic events. The band was formally organized in 1928,[199] but it existed before that date as a smaller organization led by a student director.[200] A Phi Beta Kappa chapter was established in 2001.[180]

Amenities

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Starship Technologies robots on campus
Starship Technologies robots on campus. A traditional dorm can be seen in the foreground: larger modern dorms can be seen in the background.

Approximately 5,300 students live on campus in thirteen residence halls, two residential colleges, and two apartment complexes.[201] Students are required to live on-campus during their first year.[117] Within residence halls, students designated as community assistants provide information and resolve issues.[202] In the early 20th century, the university provided cottages for married students.[195] In 1947, Vet Village was constructed to room the surge in World War II veteran applicants.[203]

The University of Mississippi provides Oxford University Transit, a shuttle system that is free of charge for students, faculty, and staff.[204] In early 2020, Starship Technologies introduced an automated food delivery consisting of a fleet of 30 robots on campus; it was the first such system of any SEC school.[205][206]

On-campus dining services Catering at UM and the Rebel Market are the only Certified Green restaurants in the state of Mississippi.[207] In 2019, the university opened a 98,000-square-foot (9,100 m2) recreation center containing a gym, indoor climbing wall, basketball courts, and other services.[208]

Greek life

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A black and white photograph of a Victorian-style fraternity house
St. Anthony Hall Phi Chapter House, University of Mississippi, 1906

Greek life at the University of Mississippi comprises 33 organizations and around 8,700 affiliated students.[209] Greek societies at the University of Mississippi are housed along Fraternity Row and Sorority Row, which were constructed in the 1930s with federal funds.[210]

The Rainbow Fraternity, which was founded at the University of Mississippi in 1848, was the first fraternity to be founded in the South.[211][212][note 2] Other early fraternities established at the university include Delta Kappa Epsilon (1850), Delta Kappa (1853), Delta Psi (1854), and Epsilon Alpha (1855).[192] By 1900, a majority of University of Mississippi students were members of a fraternity or a sorority. Non-member students felt excluded on campus and tensions between members and non-members escalated. The University Magazine denounced the Greek societies as "the most vicious institution that has grown up in any college".[213] In 1902, Lee Russell, a poor student who was rejected by the fraternities, appeared before the board of trustees to criticize the Greek societies.[214][note 3] In response, the board threatened to abolish Greek life if non-member students continued to be ostracized. In 1903, rumors Greek-life members and non-member students were preparing to "meet in combat" appeared.[215] Multiple state-legislative investigations were held to address the issue.[216] All Greek life at the university was suspended from 1912 to 1926 due to statewide anti-fraternity legislation.[217][218]

As part of a larger crackdown on embarrassing fraternity incidents, Chancellor Gerald Turner ended the traditional Shrimp and Beer Festival in 1984.[219] In 1988, Phi Beta Sigma, a black fraternity, was preparing to move into a house on the all-white Fraternity Row when arsonists burned their house. An alumnus helped purchase another house and Fraternity Row was integrated two months later.[220] In a 1989 incident, fraternity members dropped naked students painted with racist slurs at the historically black Rust College.[221] In 2014, three fraternity members placed a noose and a Confederate symbol on the Meredith statue,[222][223] and in 2019, fraternity members posed with guns in front of an Emmett Till historical marker.[224]

Media

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The first student publication at the University of Mississippi was The University Magazine, which was founded in 1856 and published by the literary societies.[225] The rivalry between the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State originated from an 1895 condemnation by The University Magazine of a Mississippi State publication which had written that the University of Mississippi "lacked dignity".[226] The first student newspaper The University Record began publication in 1898; it and the Magazine suffered financially and were suspended in 1902.[27]

In 1907, the YMCA and student athletic organization revived the university's newspaper as the Varsity Voice.[27] In 1911, this newspaper was superseded by another student-published newspaper, The Daily Mississippian.[27][227] The paper is editorially independent and is the only daily college newspaper in the state. The paper is also published online as TheDMonline.com, with supplementary content.[227]

NewsWatch, which was established in 1980, is a student-produced, live newscast and the only local newscast in Lafayette County.[228] The University of Mississippi owns and operates WUMS 92.1 Rebel Radio, which began broadcasting in 1989; it is one of a few university-operated commercial FM radio stations in the United States.[229]

Athletics

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Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning in 2003
Vaught–Hemingway Stadium
Former Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning and the university's Vaught–Hemingway Stadium

The University of Mississippi's athletic teams participate in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Southeastern Conference (SEC), Division I as the Ole Miss Rebels.[117][230] Women's varsity athletic teams at the University of Mississippi include basketball, cross country, golf, rifle, soccer, softball, tennis, track and field, and volleyball. Men's varsity teams are baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, tennis, and track and field.[231]

In 1893, professor Alexander Bondurant organized the university's football team.[232] As collegiate athletic teams began to receive names, a contest result selected the name "Mississippi Flood" in 1929. Due to the lasting harm of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, however, the name was changed to the "Rebels" in 1936.[233] The first prime-time telecast of college football was of a 1969 Ole Miss game.[234] The team has won six SEC championships.[235] Major rivals include Louisiana State University and Mississippi State University, which Ole Miss plays against in the Magnolia Bowl and Egg Bowl, respectively.[236][237] Other rivalries include Tulane and Vanderbilt.[238][239] Football alumni Archie and Eli Manning, both quarterbacks, are honored on campus with speed limits set to 18 and 10 mph; their respective jersey numbers.[240]

Ole Miss Rebels logo
The official logo of the Ole Miss Rebels

Outside football, Ole Miss baseball has won seven overall SEC championships and three SEC Tournaments.[241] They have played in the Men's College World Series six times,[242] and won the 2022 series.[243] The men's tennis team has won five overall SEC championships and has had one NCAA Singles Champion—Devin Britton.[244][245] The women's basketball team has won one overall SEC championship.[246] Notable former players include Armintie Price, who holds the SEC record for steals in a game and was the third pick in the 2007 WNBA draft,[247] and Jennifer Gillom, 1986 SEC Female Athlete of the Year and 1988 Olympic Gold Medalist.[248] Men's basketball has won two SEC Tournaments.[249] In 2021, Ole Miss women's golf won its first NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship.[250]

Notable people

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Faculty

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Robert Q. Marston, Director of the National Institutes of Health, served as medical school dean.

As of the 2020–2021 academic year, there were—excluding those of UMMC—1,092 professors, of whom 424 were tenured. At this time, there were 592 male and 500 female professors.[251]

With the early emphasis on classical studies, multiple notable classicists including George Tucker Stainback, Wilson Gaines Richardson, and William Hailey Willis, have held teaching positions at the University of Mississippi.[252][253] Archeologist David Moore Robinson, who is credited with discovering the ancient city Olynthus, also taught classics at the university.[254][255] Former Mississippi Governor Ronnie Musgrove was a political science lecturer,[256] and Kyle Duncan was an assistant law professor prior to his appointment to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.[257][258] Landon Garland taught astronomy and philosophy before becoming the first president of Vanderbilt University.[259][260] Actor James Best, who is best known for his work on The Dukes of Hazzard, was an artist in residence.[261] Robert Q. Marston, director of the National Institutes of Health, served as the dean of the medical school,[262][263] and Eugene W. Hilgard, considered the father of soil science, taught chemistry at Ole Miss.[264] Other notable scientific faculty include psychologist David H. Barlow and physicist Mack A. Breazeale.[265][266]

Alumni

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William Faulkner, Nobel Prize-winning novelist.
William Faulkner, novelist who won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature[267]

In addition to William Faulkner,[268] notable writers who attended the University of Mississippi include Florence Mars,[269] Patrick D. Smith,[270] Stark Young,[271] and John Grisham.[272] Alumni in film include Emmy Award-winning actor Gerald McRaney and Tate Taylor, director of The Help.[273][274] Musicians who studied at the university include Mose Allison and Grammy Award-winner Glen Ballard.[275][276] Athlete graduates include 12-time Grand Slam tennis champion Mahesh Bhupathi,[277] NFL quarterbacks Archie Manning and Eli Manning, New York Yankees catcher Jake Gibbs,[278] and Michael Oher, NFL offensive lineman and subject of the film The Blind Side.[279] Additionally, three Miss Americas and one Miss USA are among the alumni.[280][281][282]

The University of Mississippi's alumni include five US senators and ten governors.[283] Other public servant graduates include Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justices Sydney M. Smith and Bill Waller Jr.,[284][285] US Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus,[286][287] White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes,[288] and Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.[289] Notable academics include Pomona College president E. Wilson Lyon,[290] Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard professor Thomas K. McCraw,[291] and Mercer University president James Bruton Gambrell.[292] Notable physicians include Arthur Guyton,[293] American Medical Association head Edward Hill,[294] and Thomas F. Frist Sr., co-founder of Hospital Corporation of America.[295] Alumnus William Parsons served as director of NASA's Stennis Space Center and later that of Kennedy Space Center.[296]

Notes and references

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Notes

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  1. ^ Chancellor Barnard's friendship with General William Tecumseh Sherman may have also helped save the campus.[18]
  2. ^ The Rainbow Fraternity merged with Delta Tau Delta in 1886.[212]
  3. ^ Russell was elected Governor of Mississippi in 1919.[213]

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