Each moment in the classroom is an opportunity for professors to connect with students and to significantly impact their education as they encounter the world during and beyond college. University of Mississippi English professor Kiese Laymon did so from the moment he arrived on campus.…

Thanks to a $1 million gift from the Joseph C. Bancroft Charitable and Educational Fund, patients of Children’s of Mississippi and their families will receive a send-off as hospitable as their welcome to the state’s only children’s hospital. The seven-story children’s hospital expansion at the…

James Langmesser – who, with his wife, Traute, has committed a $1 million planned gift to the University of Mississippi – becomes reflective and animated when talking about the course offerings he encountered as a student on the Oxford campus. “It was a veritable feast…