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The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research
Research

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 university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 located in Oxford
Oxford, Mississippi

Oxford is a city and the county seat of Lafayette County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1835, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract....
, Mississippi
Mississippi

Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....
. Founded in 1848, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford and three branch campuses located in Booneville
Booneville, Mississippi

Booneville is a city in Prentiss County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 8,625 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Prentiss County, Mississippi....
, Tupelo
Tupelo, Mississippi

Tupelo is the largest city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the eighth largest city in the state of Mississippi, smaller than Meridian, Mississippi, and larger than Olive Branch, Mississippi....
, and Southaven
Southaven, Mississippi

Southaven, a city in DeSoto County, Mississippi, Mississippi. Southaven is a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 28,977....
. UM maintains a field station in Bay Springs as well as the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson
Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
. Additionally, it is both a sea-grant and space-grant
Space grant colleges

The space-grant colleges compose a network of 52 consortium, based at university across the United States, for space-related research. Each consortium is based in one of the U.S....
 institute. Sixty-nine percent of undergraduates are from Mississippi, and nineteen percent of all students are minorities.






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The University of Mississippi, also known as Ole Miss, is a public, coeducational research
Research

Research is defined as human activity based on intellectual application in the investigation of matter. The primary purpose for applied research is discovery , interpretation , and the development of methods and systems for the advancement of human knowledge on a wide variety of scientific matters of our world and the universe....
 university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
 located in Oxford
Oxford, Mississippi

Oxford is a city and the county seat of Lafayette County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. Founded in 1835, it was named after the British university city of Oxford in hopes of having the state university located there, which it did successfully attract....
, Mississippi
Mississippi

Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....
. Founded in 1848, the school is composed of the main campus in Oxford and three branch campuses located in Booneville
Booneville, Mississippi

Booneville is a city in Prentiss County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 8,625 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Prentiss County, Mississippi....
, Tupelo
Tupelo, Mississippi

Tupelo is the largest city in and the county seat of Lee County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is the eighth largest city in the state of Mississippi, smaller than Meridian, Mississippi, and larger than Olive Branch, Mississippi....
, and Southaven
Southaven, Mississippi

Southaven, a city in DeSoto County, Mississippi, Mississippi. Southaven is a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 28,977....
. UM maintains a field station in Bay Springs as well as the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson
Jackson, Mississippi

Jackson is the Capital and the most populous city of the U.S. Mississippi. It is one of two county seats in Hinds County, Mississippi; the town of Raymond, Mississippi is the other....
. Additionally, it is both a sea-grant and space-grant
Space grant colleges

The space-grant colleges compose a network of 52 consortium, based at university across the United States, for space-related research. Each consortium is based in one of the U.S....
 institute. Sixty-nine percent of undergraduates are from Mississippi, and nineteen percent of all students are minorities. International students come from sixty-six nations.

History

James Meredith Olemiss
The University got its nickname "Ole Miss" via a contest in 1897. That same year, the student yearbook was being published for the first time. As a way to find a name for the book, a contest was held to solicit suggestions from the student body. Elma Meek, a student at the time, submitted the winning entry of Ole Miss. Interestingly, the term "Ole Miss" is not derived from Mississippi, but was a term of respect used by slaves for the wife of a plantation owner. This sobriquet was chosen not only for the yearbook, but also became the name by which the University is now affectionately known.

The Lyceum, built in 1848, is the oldest building on campus. In its first year, it housed all of the classrooms and faculty offices of the university. 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.

The School of Medicine, which was originally located at the eastern gate of the campus, was used as a hospital during the Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
 for both Union
Union (American Civil War)

During the American Civil War, the Union was a name used to refer to the Federal government of the United States of the United States, which was supported by the twenty-three states which were not part of the secession attempt by the 11 states that formed the Confederate States of America....
 and Confederate
Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America formed as the government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern United States U.S. state of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S....
 soldiers, especially those who were wounded at the battle of Shiloh
Battle of Shiloh

The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War of the American Civil War, fought on April 6 and April 7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee....
. The School of Medicine is now located in Jackson, Mississippi and the original building, which served as a dormitory for male students in its last years before being condemned in the early 1970s, was replaced by a new Chemistry building in the mid 1970s. Soldiers who died in the campus hospital were buried in a mass grave located at the northeast corner of the Coliseum which was built nearly 100 years later as a venue for concerts and basketball games.

With the outbreak of the Civil War, classes were interrupted when the entire student body and many faculty from Ole Miss enlisted in the Confederate army. Their company, Company A, 11th Mississippi Infantry, was nicknamed the University Grays
University Grays

The University Greys were Company A of the 11th Mississippi Infantry regiment in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Part of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Greys served in many of the most famous and bloody battles of the war....
, and suffered a high casualty rate during the Civil War. A great number of those casualties occurred during Pickett's Charge
Pickett's Charge

Pickett's Charge was an infantry assault ordered by Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee against Major general George G. Meade's Union Army positions on Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863, the last day of the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War....
 at the Battle of Gettysburg
Battle of Gettysburg

The Battle of Gettysburg , fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the Gettysburg Campaign, was the battle with the largest number of casualties in the American Civil War and is frequently cited as the war's Turning point of the American Civil War....
 on July 3, 1863, when the University Grays made the deepest encroachment into Union territory. Some of the soldiers actually crossed the Union defensive fortification wall, only to be killed, wounded or captured. On the very next day, July 4, Confederate forces surrendered
Battle of Vicksburg

The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Army Major general Ulysses S....
 at Vicksburg, Mississippi
Vicksburg, Mississippi

Vicksburg is a city in Warren County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles north by west of New Orleans, Louisiana on the Mississippi River and Yazoo River rivers, and 40 miles due west of Jackson, Mississippi, the state capital....
; the two battles together are commonly viewed as the turning point in the war. When Ole Miss re-opened, only one member of the University Greys was able to visit the university to address the student body. The university was led, during the post-war period, by former Confederate general
General

A General officer is an Officer of high military rank. The term or equivalent is used by nearly every country in the world. General can be used as a generic term for all grades of general officer, or it can specifically refer to a single rank that is just called general....
 A.P. Stewart, a Rogersville, Tennessee
Rogersville, Tennessee

Rogersville is a town in Hawkins County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. It was settled in 1775 by the grandparents of Davy Crockett and is the second-oldest town in the state....
 native, who was President
President

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 from 1874-1886.

The University of Mississippi was also the site of a riot during desegregation
Desegregation

'Desegregation' is the process of ending racial segregation, most commonly used in reference to the United States. Desegregation was long a focus of the African-American Civil Rights Movement , both before and after the Supreme Court of the United States decision in Brown v....
, when James Meredith
James Meredith

James H. Meredith is an American civil rights movement figure. He was the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi, an event that was a flash point in the American civil rights movement....
 of Kosciusko, Mississippi
Kosciusko, Mississippi

Kosciusko is a city in Attala County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 7,372 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Attala County, Mississippi....
, attempted to enroll in the school to become the university's first black student. Thousands of students, citizens from the surrounding area and many from out of state, a number of whom were armed, swarmed the campus on September 30, 1962 in a riotous effort to prevent Meredith's enrollment. Two people died during the race riot on campus. Meredith, thanks to the protection afforded by federal marshals, was able to enroll and attend his first class on October 2. Following the riot
Riot

A riot is a form of civil disorder characterized by disorganized groups lashing out in a sudden and intense rash of violence, vandalism or other crime....
, elements of an Army National Guard
Army National Guard

The Army National Guard is the land force militia organized by each of the several U.S. states and Territories of the United States of the United States....
 division were stationed in Oxford to subdue future riots. 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. According to first person accounts chronicled in Nadine Cohodas's book The Band Played Dixie, 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, the students would immediately get up and go to another table. Because of this incident, the university itself is mentioned in Billy Joel
Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an United States rock music musician, singer-songwriter, and Classical music composer. He released his first hit song, "Piano Man ", in 1973....
's history themed song "We Didn't Start the Fire
We Didn't Start the Fire

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" ("Ole Miss").

The site of these riots was designated as a National Historic Landmark
National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark is a building, :wiktionary:site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the Federal government of the United States for its historical significance....
, the Lyceum-The Circle Historic District
Lyceum-The Circle Historic District

Lyceum-The Circle Historic District is a historic district in Oxford, Mississippi that includes eight buildings and several monuments lining University Circle which surrounds "The Circle" on the campus of the University of Mississippi....
, on October 7, 2008. The district includes:
  • The Lyceum
  • The Circle
  • Croft Institute for International Studies
    Croft Institute for International Studies

    The Croft Institute for International Studies offers a B.A. degree in international studies in conjunction with the University of Mississippi's college of Liberal Arts....
    , also known as the "Y" Building
  • Old Chemistry Building
  • Carrier Hall
  • Shoemaker Hall
  • Ventress Hall
  • Bryant Hall
  • Peabody Hall


The University of Mississippi was also the site of the first presidential debate of the 2008 election. The event was hailed as a great success and was viewed as a sign of great progress for the university.

Academics


Divisions of the University

The degree-granting divisions located at the Main Campus:
  • School of Accountancy
  • School of Applied Sciences
  • School of Business Administration
    University of Mississippi School of Business Administration

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  • School of Education
  • School of Engineering
    University of Mississippi School of Engineering

    The University of Mississippi School of Engineering was officially established in 1900 as part of the University of Mississippi in the United States state of Mississippi....
  • College of Liberal Arts
  • School of Nursing


  • Graduate School
  • School of Law
  • School of Pharmacy - created in 1908.


The colleges in the University of Mississippi Medical Center
University of Mississippi Medical Center

University of Mississippi Medical Center is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi and is located in Jackson, Mississippi, Mississippi....
 in Jackson:
  • School of Dentistry
  • School of Health Related Professions
  • School of Nursing
  • School of Medicine
    University of Mississippi School of Medicine

    The University of Mississippi School of Medicine is one of the graduate schools of the University of Mississippi. It is an Medical school in the United States and was created in 1903 on the Oxford, MS, Mississippi campus....


Statistics

  • The University of Mississippi is among the top 30 public institutions with the largest endowments per student.
  • The University of Mississippi has produced 25 Rhodes Scholars
    Rhodes Scholarship

    The Rhodes Scholarship named after Cecil Rhodes is an international award for study at the University of Oxford and was the first large-scale programme of international scholarships....
     and has also produced one Fulbright, one Marshall
    Marshall Scholarship

    Marshall Scholarships are widely recognized to be among the most prestigious awards that American undergraduates can receive. The program was created by the Parliament of the United Kingdom when the Marshall Aid Commemoration Act was passed in 1953....
    , five Truman
    Truman Scholarship

    The Harry S. Truman Scholarship is a federal scholarship granted to U.S. college juniors for demonstrated leadership potential and a commitment to public service....
    , and seven Goldwater Scholars since 1998.
  • The School of Pharmacy ranks 20th in the nation among schools of pharmacy for funding from the National Institutes of Health
    National Institutes of Health

    The National Institutes of Health is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research....
     and 2nd among pharmacy schools for total federal funding.
  • The University of Mississippi's School of Accountancy is ranked 15th in the nation.
  • The University of Mississippi's Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College
    Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College

    The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College is the honors program at the University of Mississippi in the United States. Founded in 1997 through an endowment from Jim Barksdale and Sally Barksdale, the college boasts the rich education of a private liberal-arts school at the cost of a public university....
     (founded and supported by Jim Barksdale
    Jim Barksdale

    Jim Barksdale was the president and Chief executive officer of Netscape from January 1995 until the company merged with AOL in March 1999....
     in honor of his late wife) was ranked one of the top 3 honors colleges in the nation by Reader's Digest.
  • The University of Mississippi Medical Center was recently granted a secondary nursing program, which is a program for first semester nursing students who already have a degree. It is the only school in Mississippi with this type of grant.
  • In 2007, the average ACT score of entering freshmen at the University of Mississippi (excluding the UM Medical Center) was 22.9.


Student Media

  • The Daily Mississippian
    The Daily Mississippian

    The Daily Mississippian, commonly called The DM, is the student newspaper of the University of Mississippi. It is operated as an independent student-run newspaper, and it is the only college newspaper in Mississippi that is published five times a week....
     is the student-published newspaper of The University, established in 1937. Although The Daily Mississippian (DM) 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 Mississippi
    Mississippi

    Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Deep South of the United States. Jackson, Mississippi is the state capital and largest city. The state's name comes from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, and takes its name from the Anishinaabe language word misi-ziibi ....
     that is published five times a week. The editorial staff consists of approximately 15 students, along with a staff of 15-20 writers and 5 photographers, though these numbers vary from year to year and semester to semester. There is also an entire department devoted entirely to advertising sales and production. With a circulation of 15,000, it is one of the largest college newspapers in the country. The paper also runs The DM Online, one of the few online college newspapers that is independent of the print edition. With an independent staff and editor in chief, The DM Online is dedicated to strengthening the publications of Ole Miss through multimedia interaction.
  • The Ole Miss student yearbook is a 416-page color book produced by students with faculty advice. It has won various awards including the Gold Crown.
  • WUMS-FM
    WUMS-FM

    WUMS is a student-run formatted Campus radio radio station in University, Mississippi. WUMS is owned and licensed by the Student Media Center of the University of Mississippi....
     92.1 Rebel Radio, operated by students, is a 3,000-watt FCC-commercially licensed radio station.
  • NewsWatch is the only student-produced, live newscast in the state of Mississippi. Broadcast through the Metrocast cable company, it is live at 5:30 Monday-Friday.


These five publications are a part of the S. Gale Denley Student Media Center at Ole Miss.

Facts

  • The university houses the largest blues music archive in the United States. Some of the contributions to the collection were donated by BB King. 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.
  • Archie Manning
    Archie Manning

    Elisha Archibald "Archie" Manning III is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League. He is the father of current Indianapolis Colts starting quarterback Peyton Manning, current New York Giants starting quarterback Eli Manning, and former University of Mississippi receiver, Cooper Manning....
    's uniform number, 18, has become the official speed limit of the Oxford campus.
  • The school grows U.S. government cannabis. The National Institute on Drug Abuse
    National Institute on Drug Abuse

    The National Institute on Drug Abuse is a United States federal-government research institute whose mission is to "lead the Nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction."...
      (NIDA) contracts to the university the production of cannabis
    Cannabis

    Cannabis is a genus of flowering plants that includes three putative species, Cannabis sativa L., Cannabis indica Lam., and Cannabis ruderalis Janisch....
     for the use in the few 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
    Compassionate Investigational New Drug program

    The Compassionate Investigational New Drug program, or Compassionate IND, is the Investigational New Drug program allowing a limited number of patients to use National Institute on Drug Abuse-provided medical cannabis grown at the University of Mississippi....
     (established in 1978 and canceled in 1991).
  • University of Mississippi Medical Center surgeons performed the world's first lung transplant in man and transplanted the heart of a chimpanzee - man's closest genetic relation - into the chest of a dying man.
  • William Faulkner
    William Faulkner

    William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize in Literature-winning United States author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short story....
    's estate
    Estate (house)

    An estate comprises the houses and outbuildings and supporting farmland and woods that surround the gardens and grounds of a very large property, such as a country house or mansion....
    , Rowan Oak
    Rowan Oak

    Rowan Oak, also known as William Faulkner House, is William Faulkner's former home in Oxford, Mississippi. The curator since 1999 is William Griffith....
    , is owned by the university. His Nobel Prize for Literature is held in Archives and Special Collections at J. D. Williams Library on the Ole Miss campus. The town of Oxford surrounds the campus which is located in Lafayette County and inspired Faulkner and his imaginary town of Jefferson, the county seat of Yoknapatawpha County
    Yoknapatawpha County

    Yoknapatawpha County is a List of fictional counties created by American author William Faulkner as a setting for many of his novels. It is widely believed by scholars that Lafayette County, Mississippi is the basis for Yoknapatawpha County....
  • In Star Trek
    Star Trek

    Star Trek is an American Science fiction on television entertainment series and media franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series, in addition to ten feature films with Star Trek to be released on May 8,...
    , the character Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy
    Leonard McCoy

    Leonard H. McCoy is a character in the fictional Star Trek media franchise. First portrayed by DeForest Kelley in the Star Trek: The Original Series, McCoy also appears in the Star Trek: The Animated Series, the first six Star Trek movies, the television pilot of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and in numerous books, comics, and video g...
     attended the university.
  • In Designing Women
    Designing Women

    Designing Women is an United States television sitcom that centered around the working and personal lives of four Southern women and one man in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia....
    , the character Suzanne Sugarbaker attended the university, where the character was a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority.
  • In the 1996 movie A Time to Kill
    A Time to Kill

    A Time to Kill is a legal thriller authored by John Grisham in 1989. Grisham's first novel, it was rejected by many publishers before Wynwood Press eventually gave it a modest 5,000-copy printing....
    , based on the novel by John Grisham
    John Grisham

    John Ray Grisham is an United States ex-politician, lawyer and novelist is best known for his works of modern legal drama. As of 2008, his books have sold over 250 million copies worldwide....
    , Sandra Bullock
    Sandra Bullock

    Sandra Annette Bullock, IPA: is a Screen Actors Guild Award-winning and two-time Golden Globe Award-nominated American-German actor. She came to fame in the 1990s, after roles in successful films such as Speed and While You Were Sleeping....
     plays a stellar law student from Ole Miss named Ellen Roark.
  • The Mississippi Teacher Corps
    Mississippi Teacher Corps

    The Mississippi Teacher Corps is a two-year teaching program that recruits college graduates to teach in "critical-need areas" of Mississippi, specifically in the Mississippi Delta and Jackson, Mississippi....
     is based at the university.
  • The University was chosen to host the first presidential debate of 2008
    United States presidential election debates, 2008

    The bipartisan Commission on Presidential Debates sponsored four debates for the United States presidential election, 2008, which took place at various locations around the United States in September 2008 and October 2008....
    , which was held September 26, 2008. This was the first ever presidential debate to be held in Mississippi.
  • The Princeton Review rankings included Ole Miss as the #2 party school
    Party school

    "Party school" is a term used to describe a college or university that has a reputation for heavy alcohol and drug use or a general culture of licentiousness....
     in the nation.


Athletics


Student Housing

Approximately 3500 students live on campus in the fourteen residence halls available. 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. The Department of Student Housing and Residence Life 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. Most of the residence staff members are students, including day-to-day management, conduct board members and maintenance personnel. Upon acceptance to The University of Mississippi, a housing application is submitted with a processing fee. On Campus Housing cost ranges from $1730 to over $2500 per semester depending on the occupancy and suite type. Students (with more than 30 credit hours) have the option to live off campus in unaffiliated housing.

Greek Life

Despite the relatively small number of Greek-letter organizations on campus, many students 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 W.W.W. (or Rainbow Society), founded at Ole Miss in 1848, which went on to charter other chapters across the South. The fraternity merged with Delta Tau Delta
Delta Tau Delta

Delta Tau Delta is a United States-based international Fraternities and sororities.Delta Tau Delta was founded in 1858 at Bethany College , Bethany, West Virginia ....
 in 1886. Delta Gamma national sorority was founded in 1872 at the Lewis School for Girls in nearby Oxford. Today, sorority chapters are very large, with many boasting of around 250 active members. Recruitment is fiercely competitive and potential sorority members are encouraged to secure personal recommendations from Ole Miss sorority alumnae in order to increase the chances of receiving an invitation to join one of the 9 NPC sororities on campus.


NPC Sororities
  • Alpha Delta Pi
    Alpha Delta Pi

    Alpha Delta Pi was founded May 15 1851 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia making it the first female fraternal organization established. The Executive office for this sorority is located on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia....
     1961, inactive since 1995
  • Alpha Omicron Pi
    Alpha Omicron Pi

    Alpha Omicron Pi is an international Fraternities and sororities that was founded on January 2, 1897 at Barnard College on the campus of Columbia University in New York....
     1958
  • Alpha Xi Delta
    Alpha Xi Delta

    Alpha Xi Delta was founded on April 17, 1893 by ten women at Lombard College, Galesburg, Illinois, who shared a vision of an organization dedicated to the personal growth of women....
     1971, inactive since 1976
  • Chi Omega
    Chi Omega

    Chi Omega is a women's Fraternities and sororities and the largest member of the National Panhellenic Conference. Chi Omega boasts 174 active collegiate chapters and hundreds of alumnae chapters....
     1899
  • Delta Delta Delta
    Delta Delta Delta

    Delta Delta Delta , also known as Tri Delta, is an international collegiate women's fraternity founded on November 27, 1888. With 136 chapters in the United States and Canada it is one of the largest women's organizations in the world....
     1904
  • Delta Gamma
    Delta Gamma

    Delta Gamma is one of the oldest, largest and prestigious women's fraternities and sororities in the United States and Canada, with its Executive Offices based in Columbus, Ohio, Ohio....
     1927
  • Delta Zeta
    Delta Zeta

    Delta Zeta is a college sorority founded on October 24, 1902, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Today, Delta Zeta has 158 collegiate chapters in the United States and over 200 alumnae chapters in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada....
     1928, inactive since 1953
  • Kappa Alpha Theta
    Kappa Alpha Theta

    Kappa Alpha Theta is an international women's fraternities and sororities founded on January 27, 1870 at DePauw University. Kappa Alpha Theta was the first Greek-letter women's fraternity....
     1979
  • Kappa Delta
    Kappa Delta

    Kappa Delta was the first sorority founded at the Longwood University , in Farmville, Virginia. It is one of the "Farmville Four" sororities founded at the universities ....
     1927
  • Kappa Kappa Gamma
    Kappa Kappa Gamma

    Kappa Kappa Gamma is a college Fraternities and sororities, founded at Monmouth College, Illinois. Although the groundwork of the organization was developed as early as 1869, the 1876 Convention voted on October 13, 1870 as Founders Day, because no earlier charter date could be determined....
     1947
  • Phi Mu
    Phi Mu

    Phi Mu is the second oldest female fraternities and sororities established in the United States. It was founded at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia....
     1926
  • Pi Beta Phi
    Pi Beta Phi

    Pi Beta Phi is an international Fraternities and sororities founded as I.C. Sorosis on April 28, 1867, at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois....
     1962
  • Zeta Tau Alpha
    Zeta Tau Alpha

    Zeta Tau Alpha is a women's Fraternities and sororities, founded October 15, 1898 at what used to be State Female Normal School but is now known as Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia....
     1939, inactive since 1999


NPHC Organizations
  • Alpha Kappa Alpha
    Alpha Kappa Alpha

    Alpha Kappa Alpha is the first Greek alphabet sorority established and incorporated by African American college women. The sorority was founded on January 15, 1908, at Howard University in Washington, D.C., by a group of nine students, led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle....
     1974
  • Alpha Phi Alpha
    Alpha Phi Alpha

    Alpha Phi Alpha is the first intercollegiate Fraternities and sororities established by African Americans. Founded on December 4, 1906, on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, Alpha Phi Alpha has initiated over 185,000 men into the organization and has been open to men of all races since 1940....
     1978
  • Delta Sigma Theta
    Delta Sigma Theta

    Delta Sigma Theta is a non-profit Greek-lettered sorority of college-educated women who perform public service and place emphasis on the African American community....
     1974
  • Kappa Alpha Psi
    Kappa Alpha Psi

    Kappa Alpha Psi is a collegiate Greek alphabet Fraternities and sororities with a predominantly African American membership. Since the fraternity's founding on January 5, 1911 at Indiana University Bloomington, the fraternity has never limited membership based on color, creed or national origin....
     1983
  • Omega Psi Phi
    Omega Psi Phi

    Omega Psi Phi is an international Fraternities and sororities and was the first African-American national fraternal organization to be founded at a Historically Black colleges and universities....
     1973
  • Phi Beta Sigma
    Phi Beta Sigma

    Phi Beta Sigma is a predominantly African-American Fraternities and sororities which was founded at Howard University in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 1914, by three young African-American male students....
     1975
  • Sigma Gamma Rho
    Sigma Gamma Rho

    Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated was founded on the campus of Butler University on November 12, 1922, by seven school teachers in Indianapolis, Indiana....
     1994
  • Zeta Phi Beta
    Zeta Phi Beta

    Zeta Phi Beta is an international, historically black Greek-lettered fraternities and sororities and a member of the National Pan-Hellenic Council....
     1976

Fraternities
  • Alpha Tau Omega
    Alpha Tau Omega

    ATO is an American Leadership Fraternities and sororities that annually ranks among the top ten national fraternities for number of chapters and total number of members....
     1927 (on probation for two semesters for alcohol-related violations)
  • Beta Theta Pi
    Beta Theta Pi

    Beta Theta Pi is a social collegiate fraternities and sororities that was founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, USA, where it is part of the Miami Triad which includes Phi Delta Theta and Sigma Chi....
     1879
  • Chi Psi
    Chi Psi

    Information available from chipsi.org.Chi Psi Fraternity, ?? is a fraternities and sororities secret society consisting of 29 chapters at American colleges and universities....
     1858, currently inactive
  • Delta Psi 1855
  • Delta Kappa Epsilon
    Delta Kappa Epsilon

    Delta Kappa Epsilon is a fraternity founded at Yale College in 1844 by 15 men of the sophomore class who, upon hearing that some but not all of them had been invited to join the two existing societies , instead elected to form their own fraternity....
     1850, currently expelled
  • Delta Tau Delta
    Delta Tau Delta

    Delta Tau Delta is a United States-based international Fraternities and sororities.Delta Tau Delta was founded in 1858 at Bethany College , Bethany, West Virginia ....
     1886-1912, 1926-1942, currently inactive
  • Kappa Alpha Order
    Kappa Alpha Order

    Kappa Alpha Order is an American social fraternity and fraternal order. Kappa Alpha Order has 131 active chapters with more than and 149,000 initiated members....
     1900 (suspended until November 2009 for hazing)
  • Kappa Sigma
    Kappa Sigma

    ?S is an international fraternities and sororities with currently 216 chapters and 29 colonies in North America. There have been more than 250,000 initiates, of which more than 182,500 are living and more than 12,000 are undergraduates....
     1926
  • Phi Delta Theta
    Phi Delta Theta

    Phi Delta Theta is an international Fraternities and sororities founded in 1848 and headquartered at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Chi form the Miami Triad....
     1877
  • Phi Gamma Delta
    Phi Gamma Delta

    Phi Gamma Delta is a collegiate social Fraternities and sororities with 107 chapters and 7 colonies across the United States and Canada. It was founded at Washington & Jefferson College, Pennsylvania in 1848 and its headquarters are located in Lexington, Kentucky, Kentucky, USA....
     1855, 1868-1879, 1994-2000, currently inactive
  • Phi Kappa Psi
    Phi Kappa Psi

    Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity is an American Fraternities and sororities....
     1857
  • Phi Kappa Tau
    Phi Kappa Tau

    Phi Kappa Tau is a United States national Fraternities and sororities....
     1969
  • Phi Kappa Theta
    Phi Kappa Theta

    Phi Kappa Theta is a national social Fraternities and sororities with over 50 chapters and colonies at university across the United States. "Phi Kaps", as they are commonly referred to colloquially, are known for Multiculturalism among their brothers and a dedication to Community service....
     1971-1988, currently inactive
  • Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
    Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

    Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is a collegiate social fraternity for men with an interest in music. The fraternity is also referred to as Phi Mu Alpha or Sinfonia, and its members are known as Sinfonians....
     1962
  • Phi Pi Phi
    Alpha Sigma Phi

    Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity is a social Fraternities and sororities with 68 active chapters, colonies, and interest groups. Founded at Yale in 1845, it is the 11th oldest fraternity in the United States....
     1927, merged with Alpha Sigma Phi in 1938, currently inactive
  • Pi Kappa Alpha
    Pi Kappa Alpha

    Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity is an international, secret, social, Greek alphabet, college fraternities and sororities. It was founded at 47 West The Range at the University of Virginia in the United States on Sunday evening, March 1 1868....
     1927
  • Sigma Alpha Epsilon
    Sigma Alpha Epsilon

    Sigma Alpha Epsilon was founded March 9, 1856 at the University of Alabama. SAE is the largest social college fraternity by total initiates with more than 288,000 initiated members....
     1866
  • Sigma Chi
    Sigma Chi

    Sigma Chi is one of the largest and oldest all-male, college, greek alphabet social fraternities and sororities and a secret society. Sigma Chi was founded on June 28, 1855 at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio when members split from Delta Kappa Epsilon....
     1857
  • Sigma Nu
    Sigma Nu

    SN is an undergraduate college fraternity with chapters in the United States and Canada. Sigma Nu was founded in 1869 by three cadets at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia, Virginia....
     1927
  • Sigma Phi Epsilon
    Sigma Phi Epsilon

    SF? , commonly nicknamed SigEp, is a secret letter, social college Fraternities and sororities for male college students in the United States....
     1927
  • Sigma Pi
    Sigma Pi

    Sigma Pi is an international college social fraternities and sororities with chapters in the United States and Canada. Like most social fraternities, membership is by invitation and limited to men....
     1957-1971, 1974-1991, currently inactive
  • Tau Kappa Epsilon
    Tau Kappa Epsilon

    Tau Kappa Epsilon is a college fraternities and sororities founded on January 10th, 1899 at Illinois Wesleyan University with chapters in the United States, and Canada, and affiliation with a German fraternity system known as the Corps of the Weinheimer Senioren Convent ....
     Colonized in 1984, currently inactive
  • Zeta Beta Tau
    Zeta Beta Tau

    Zeta Beta Tau is a historically Judaism, presently nonsectarian international fraternities and sororities. Today the merged Zeta Beta Tau Brotherhood numbers over 130,000 initiated Brothers, and over 80 student chapter locations....
     Colonized in the 1980s, currently inactive


Associated Student Body

The Associated Student Body (ASB) is the Ole Miss student government organization. The President is Graham Purcell. The ASB Office is in Union 422.

Noteworthy alumni

  • Best-selling legal thriller writer John Grisham
    John Grisham

    John Ray Grisham is an United States ex-politician, lawyer and novelist is best known for his works of modern legal drama. As of 2008, his books have sold over 250 million copies worldwide....
     received his Juris Doctor degree at Ole Miss.
  • Charlie's Angel Kate Jackson
    Kate Jackson

    Kate Jackson is an American actress, television director, and Television producer. She is a three-time Emmy Award nominee, twice in the "Best Actress" category and once in the "Best Supporting Actress" category....
     and long-time "As the World Turns
    As the World Turns

    As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that airs each weekday on CBS.Set in the fictional town of Oakdale , the show debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30pm Eastern Time Zone....
    " star Anthony Herrera
    Anthony Herrera

    Anthony Herrera is an United States actor. Among roles in various movies, he is most known for his role as James Stenbeck on the soap opera As the World Turns, a role he has been playing from 1980 to 1984, from 1986 to 1989, in 1996, from 1997 to 1999, in 2001 and 2002-2005....
     attended the university.
  • New York Giants
    New York Giants

    The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The team plays its home games at Giants Stadium, which also serves as its headquarters, and trains at an adjacent practice facility within the Meadowlands Sports Complex....
     player Eli Manning
    Eli Manning

    Elisha Nelson Manning is an American football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He is the younger brother of Peyton Manning and Cooper Manning and the son of Archie Manning and Olivia Manning....
     attended Ole Miss and played football for the Rebels.
  • The University has produced three Miss America
    Miss America

    The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia and the US Virgin Islands....
    s: Susan Akin
    Susan Akin

    Susan Akin, from Meridian, Mississippi, Mississippi, was Miss America 1986. Born in 1965, she was a member of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women at the University of Mississippi....
     (1986 and a member of Pi Beta Phi
    Pi Beta Phi

    Pi Beta Phi is an international Fraternities and sororities founded as I.C. Sorosis on April 28, 1867, at Monmouth College in Monmouth, Illinois....
    ), Mary Ann Mobley
    Mary Ann Mobley

    Mary Ann Mobley . She is a former Miss America, actress, and television personality.She married actor Gary Collins in 1967. Their daughter, Mary Clancy Collins, is a Senior Vice President with MGM Television....
     and Lynda Lee Mead
    Lynda Lee Mead

    Lynda Lee Mead Shea , from Natchez, Mississippi, Mississippi, attended the University of Mississippi, where she was a member of Chi Omega sorority, and won the Miss America pageant in 1960....
     (1959 and 1960 roommates and both members of Chi Omega
    Chi Omega

    Chi Omega is a women's Fraternities and sororities and the largest member of the National Panhellenic Conference. Chi Omega boasts 174 active collegiate chapters and hundreds of alumnae chapters....
    ).


See also

  • Croft Institute for International Studies
    Croft Institute for International Studies

    The Croft Institute for International Studies offers a B.A. degree in international studies in conjunction with the University of Mississippi's college of Liberal Arts....
  • List of University of Mississippi notable alumni
    List of University of Mississippi notable alumni

    The following is a list of notable alumni of the University of Mississippi....
  • Ole Miss Rebels
    Ole Miss Rebels

    University of Mississippi college athletics teams, originally known as the "Mississippi Flood", were re-named the Rebels in 1935 and compete in the competitive twelve-member Southeastern Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I....
  • Ole Miss Rebels baseball
    Ole Miss Rebels baseball

    The Ole Miss Rebels baseball team represents the University of Mississippi in NCAA Division I college baseball. The team participates in the West division of the Southeastern Conference....
  • Ole Miss Rebels football
    Ole Miss Rebels football

    The University of Mississippi, also officially known as Ole Miss, boasts a long and colorful football history, which includes the formation of the first football team in the state and is 31st on the list of college football's all-time winningest programs....
  • Old Gym
    Old Gym

    Old Gym was a 2,500 seat multi-purpose arena in Oxford, Mississippi owned and operated by the University of Mississippi. It opened in 1924. It was home to the Ole Miss Rebels basketball teams....
  • Pete Boone
    Pete Boone

    Pete Boone is the Athletics Director for the University of Mississippi ....
  • Robert Khayat
    Robert Khayat

    Dr. Robert Conrad Khayat is the 15th Chancellor of the University of Mississippi. He was appointed in 1995, and announced his retirement from the post on January 6, 2009....
  • Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College
    Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College

    The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College is the honors program at the University of Mississippi in the United States. Founded in 1997 through an endowment from Jim Barksdale and Sally Barksdale, the college boasts the rich education of a private liberal-arts school at the cost of a public university....
  • Swayze Field
    Swayze Field

    Swayze Field is the home of the University of Mississippi Rebels college baseball team and is located in Oxford, Mississippi. It is named in honor of Tom Swayze, a former Ole Miss baseball player and coach....
  • Tad Smith Coliseum
    Tad Smith Coliseum

    C. M. "Tad" Smith Coliseum is an 8,700-seat multi-purpose arena on the campus of the University of Mississippi. It is home to the University of Mississippi Ole Miss Rebels and Lady Rebels basketball teams....
  • The Daily Mississippian
    The Daily Mississippian

    The Daily Mississippian, commonly called The DM, is the student newspaper of the University of Mississippi. It is operated as an independent student-run newspaper, and it is the only college newspaper in Mississippi that is published five times a week....
  • University, Mississippi
    University, Mississippi

    University, Mississippi is not an official government based city or town but is the official designated name for the area encompassing the University of Mississippi, in Lafayette County, Mississippi within the city of Oxford, Mississippi....
  • University of Mississippi Museum
    University of Mississippi Museum

    The University of Mississippi Museum is a museum owned and operated by the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. The museum's stated purpose and mission is to undertake the collection, preservation, research, exhibition, and interpretation of objects related to the community and university, and to serve both the popular and schol...
  • Vaught-Hemingway Stadium
    Vaught-Hemingway Stadium

    Vaught-Hemingway Stadium at Hollingsworth Field is an outdoor football stadium located on the University of Mississippi's main campus in Oxford, Mississippi....
  • WUMS-FM
    WUMS-FM

    WUMS is a student-run formatted Campus radio radio station in University, Mississippi. WUMS is owned and licensed by the Student Media Center of the University of Mississippi....


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