When University of Mississippi baseball players won the College World Series in June, they indirectly scored a gift that will help feed their fellow students. Fans from all eight CWS teams who traveled to Omaha, Nebraska, for the tournament participated…
A $1 million gift from the Joseph C. Bancroft Charitable & Educational Fund of McComb, Mississippi, will name a large first-floor classroom in the Patterson School of Accountancy’s new building on the University of Mississippi’s Oxford campus. “The Bancroft Charitable…
With a gift of $62,500 to the University of Mississippi’s Haley Barbour Center for Manufacturing Excellence (CME), the Holder family of Bay Springs, Mississippi, hopes to keep graduates in the state while also honoring their father. The Holders’ family gift…
Growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, Charles Clark developed a love for University of Mississippi football leading him to enroll at Ole Miss, but it was advice from a professor that began his lifelong connection with the Patterson School of Accountancy…
Corinth Coca-Cola Bottling Works Inc. has been serving ice-cold beverages since 1907. In that time, the family-owned and operated organization has expanded from its original location in Corinth, Mississippi, to multiple locations across the Mid-South. And all the while, family…
For five decades, students in the Department of Computer and Information Science (CIS) at the University of Mississippi have been finding solutions to real-world problems and developing innovative computer software. These achievements and the School of Engineering students making them…
Brian Roberson, who earned University of Mississippi undergraduate and master’s degrees in accounting nearly three decades ago, wants his alma mater to have the resources to make the dream of building a new home for the Patterson School of Accountancy…
For more than half a century, Mississippi-born Bill and Cile Hicks of Needham, Massachusetts, have lived and worked 1,400 miles from Oxford, Mississippi, but the University of Mississippi has never been far from their hearts. These Ole Miss supporters have…
Tonya and Dale Flesher have each devoted 45-year careers to the Patterson School of Accountancy at the University of Mississippi and now they are supporting construction of the school’s new home. The award-winning researchers and teachers have committed $300,000 to…
In her lifetime, the late Madeleine McMullan’s philanthropy and service improved the lives of countless people. Now, her family’s foundation continues her legacy with recent gifts totaling $500,000 to the University of Mississippi’s Foundations for Academic Success Track (FASTrack) program…