The student teaching experience for University of Mississippi education majors has become a little easier, thanks to a new support program and its generous benefactors. Every education major getting ready to begin their student teaching gets an Essential Education Kit,…
Brent Wood’s recent gift to the University of Mississippi will help shape new construction for the institution that launched his successful 26-year career in accounting. “I went to Ole Miss without a specific major in mind. After taking an Accounting…
For 37 years, the late Alice Henderson of Jackson, Mississippi, supported the University of Mississippi with funds for scholarships. Now her $3.1 million estate gift further illustrates her devotion to strengthening her alma mater. The gift is directed to the…
Lifelong Disney World fan Donna Dukes Wade knows the amusement park considers itself the happiest place on Earth, but don’t tell Mickey that the University of Mississippi makes her a little bit happier. Wade of Oxford, Mississippi, and part-time resident…
To say Bill Roper is driven is an understatement. The Jackson, Mississippi, native has continued to work ever since he started selling tomatoes door-to-door at age 8. Back then, he used some of the money to buy model cars. Today,…
When the last online donation was made Wednesday (April 6) for Giving Day 2022, the University of Mississippi's loyal donors had united to set unprecedented fundraising records for academics. This year, 1,491 Ole Miss students, parents, alumni, friends, faculty and…
A Giving Day pledge of $250,000 brought the University of Mississippi’s Patterson School of Accountancy one step closer to construction of its planned 110,000-square-foot building overlooking the Grove in heart of campus. Doug Self, a 1985 UM accountancy graduate, made…
An anonymous pledge from a family to the University of Mississippi put $1 million into the Chancellor’s Trust as part of Giving Day. Giving Day is a social media-heavy fundraising event that began Tuesday, April 5. When it ended, Giving…
Kirk and Shelly Morgan of Lexington, South Carolina, celebrated Giving Day with a $100,000 gift to help the College of Liberal Arts continue to recruit and retain top faculty. Of course, the biggest beneficiaries of the Shelly and Kirk Morgan…
Dr. Marc E. Walker, a plastic surgeon and Mississippi’s only pediatric and congenital hand surgeon, is the founder and clinical director of the Congenital Hand Clinic at Children’s of Mississippi — the pediatric hospital at the University of Mississippi Medical…