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Public university in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US

The Academy of Southern Mississippi
University of Southern Mississippi seal.svg

Quondam names

 Mississippi Normal Higher (1910–1924)[1]
Mississippi Land Teachers College (1924–1940)
Mississippi Southern Higher (1940–1962)
Blazon Public enquiry university
Established March 30, 1910; 112 years ago  (1910-03-30)

Bookish amalgamation
  • SURA
  • ORAU
  • Sea-grant
  • Infinite-grant
Endowment $103.5 one thousand thousand (2020)[2]
President Rodney D. Bennett
Provost Steven R. Moser

Academic staff

 899 (Fall 2017)[3]
Students 14,606 (Fall 2020)[3]
Undergraduates 11,451
Postgraduates 3,155
Location

Hattiesburg

,

Mississippi

,

United States


31°19′47″N 89°20′02″Due west  /  31.329638°N 89.333847°Due west  / 31.329638; -89.333847 Coordinates: 31°xix′47″N 89°20′02″W  /  31.329638°Northward 89.333847°W  / 31.329638; -89.333847
Campus Urban, 300 acres (1.2 km2)
Colors Blackness, gold[4]
Nickname Gold Eagles

Sporting affiliations

 NCAA Segmentation I – Briefing Usa (until 2023) Sun Belt Conference (starting 2023)
Website usm.edu
University of Southern Mississippi logo.svg

The Academy of Southern Mississippi (USM or Southern Miss) is a public research university with its main campus in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to laurels available's, master'southward, specialist, and doctoral degrees. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research action".[5]

Founded on March xxx, 1910, the university is a dual campus establishment, with the main campus located in Hattiesburg and the other large campus, Gulf Park, in Long Embankment. It has five additional didactics and enquiry sites, including the John C. Stennis Space Center and the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL).

Originally chosen the Mississippi Southerners, the Southern Miss able-bodied teams became the Aureate Eagles in 1972. The school'southward colors, black and gold, were selected past a student body vote before long later on the school was founded. While mascots, names, customs, and the campus have changed, the black and gold colors have remained constant. USM's 17 sport programs participate in NCAA Division I athletics, mainly as members of Conference U.s..

History [edit]

The first 5 buildings erected on the university's Hattiesburg campus

The University of Southern Mississippi was founded on March xxx, 1910, every bit Mississippi Normal College, a teacher-grooming school. The Normal College was created to standardize the process of training upcoming teachers. Before the existence of a specialized didactics college, instructors were required to travel throughout Mississippi in training for teaching their students.[6] R. H. Hunt designed several of the campus buildings.[seven] The college's starting time president, Joseph Anderson Cook, presided over the opening session of instruction on September 18, 1912, and oversaw the structure of College Hall (the academic building); Forrest County Hall (men'due south and married students' dormitory); Hattiesburg Hall (women'southward dormitory); the Industrial Cottage (training laboratory for home management); and the president's dwelling house (now the Ogletree Alumni House). In its starting time session, Mississippi Normal College had a full enrollment of 876 students, and stood for "make clean, pure, efficient lives."[8]

Equally the school developed its curriculum and departments, its name changed to reverberate its progress: in 1924, to Mississippi Land Teachers College, and in 1940, to Mississippi Southern College.

The college'southward fifth president, Country Archivist Dr. William David McCain, was installed in 1955 and worked to aggrandize Mississippi Southern College. He oversaw the structure of 17 new structures on campus and convinced Gov. Ross Barnett to upgrade the school to academy status in recognition of its graduate programs. On Feb 27, 1962, Barnett signed the bill into law which officially renamed the school as the University of Southern Mississippi.

William David McCain (left) with Gov. Ross Barnett and Lt. Gov. Paul B. Johnson at signing of bill granting academy status

Desegregation and civil rights [edit]

In 1954 the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brownish 5. Lath of Pedagogy that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. Only when Clyde Kennard, a black Korean War veteran, attempted to enroll at Mississippi Southern College in the late 1950s, McCain made major efforts with the state political establishment and local blackness leaders to prevent it. Kennard was turned down iii times. After he wrote messages most educational integration to the local paper, he was twice arrested on trumped-up criminal charges; he was eventually bedevilled and sentenced to seven years in the country prison house.

McCain'southward direct interest in this abuse of the justice organization is unclear. He was probable aware that the charges against Kennard were fraudulent, simply neither he nor other public officials fabricated whatever objection.[9] [10] [xi] [12] Speaking to businessmen in Chicago on a trip sponsored by the Mississippi Land Sovereignty Committee, McCain said: "Nosotros insist that educationally and socially, we maintain a segregated social club. ... In all fairness, I admit that we are non encouraging Negro voting," he said. "The Negroes prefer that control of the government remain in the white man's hands."[ix] [ten] [12] Kennard was finally released on parole in 1963, when he was terminally ill with cancer; he died six months subsequently.

Kennard meeting sister Sara Tarpley on arrival in Chicago after parole in 1963

Past the early on 1960s, national pressure level was growing to integrate Mississippi's institutions of higher learning. McCain was well known to vehemently oppose having whatever black students at Mississippi Southern. In 1962 James Meredith attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi, the land'southward flagship institution.[nine] His enrollment was accomplished after white rioting and apply of federal troops to stop the violence.

By the fall of 1965 both Ole Miss and Mississippi State University had been integrated – the former violently, the latter peacefully. McCain, USM and state leaders recognized the state needed to integrate to appeal to businesses from outside the state. They made all-encompassing confidential plans for the admission of their first blackness students. A faculty guardian and tutor was secretly appointed for each to aid with the transition. The campus police department was instructed to prevent or quickly finish whatever incident confronting the two black students. Educatee athletic, fraternity, and political leaders were recruited to proceed the calm and protect the university from the kind of negative publicity that Ole Miss had suffered during rioting against Meredith's enrollment.

As a effect, black students Gwendolyn Elaine Armstrong and Raylawni Branch were enrolled without incident in September 1965.[xiii] [14] In 2018, USM unveiled a Freedom Trail Marking in honor of Clyde Kennard, in front of Kennard Washington Hall, named after him and the offset African-American doctoral student to graduate from USM, Walter Washington. Shortly thereafter, at the bound showtime ceremonies in May 2018, Clyde Kennard was posthumously awarded the Medico of Humane Letters honoris causa from USM.[xv] [16] A student in Kennard's Sunday Schoolhouse course at Mary Magdalene Baptist Church in Eatonville, Mississippi, accustomed the honor on his behalf.

Between 1955 and 1965, USM along with its president, William D. McCain, infringed upon the civil rights of Gay and Lesbian students. Gay and Lesbian students, with an emphasis on male homosexuals, were targeted and expelled. McCain's intentions were to purge the campus of all sexual impurities.[17]

In 1969, the Afro-American Cultural Society (AACS) was founded. Alvin Williams, an early on member of the organization and professor emeritus of media at the university, described AACS as an "instrumental part of pupil life for black students" attending the academy in the late 1960s. The organisation was after renamed as the African American Pupil Organization (AASO) in the 1990s.[18]

The transition of the 1960s to the 1970s gave style to a surge of social activism and major changes within the university. In response to growing concerns of black students, the university ramped its efforts to hire black faculty. In 1972, "General Nat" (Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest) was discarded in favor of the Golden Eagles. In 1974, standout football game role player Fred Melt was voted as the first blackness Mr. USM. The first black Greek organizations premiered in 1975.[half-dozen] By the time McCain retired in 1975, enrollment had climbed to xi,000 students.[14]

In the years following McCain'south campus transformation, The University of Southern Mississippi connected to aggrandize dramatically. Notable changes included: replacement of the quarter system with the semester system, creation of the Polymer Scientific discipline Plant, reorganization of the university's 10 schools into six colleges, affiliation with Conference USA, institution of the School of Nursing as a college; the implementation of online classes; and an expansion of the Gulf Coast campus.

Presidents [edit]

  • Joseph Anderson "Joe" Melt – 1912–1928
  • Claude Bennett – 1928–1933
  • Dr. Jennings Burton George – 1933–1945
  • Dr. Robert Cecil Cook – 1945–1954
  • Dr. Richard Aubrey McLemore (acting president) – 1955
  • Dr. William David McCain – 1955–1975
  • Dr. Aubrey Keith Lucas – 1975–1996
  • Dr. Horace Weldon Fleming, Jr. – 1997–2001
  • Dr. Aubrey Keith Lucas (interim president) – 2001–2002
  • Dr. Shelby Freeland Thames – 2002–2007
  • Dr. Martha Dunagin Saunders – 2007–2012
  • Dr. Aubrey Keith Lucas (interim president) – 2012–2013
  • Dr. Rodney D. Bennett – 2013–present

Recent developments [edit]

Academic rankings
National
Forbes [22] 522[19]
U.S. News & World Study [23] 298–389[xx]
Washington Monthly [24] 235[21]

In the early 21st century, Southern Miss developed under the presidency of Dr. Shelby Thames. His tenure was characterized past a pregnant increase in the quantity of enquiry conducted at the university. USM was classified equally a "Doctoral / Research Extensive" university past the Carnegie Foundation during the Thames era.[5] According to the National Science Foundation, USM spent $61 million on research and evolution in 2018, ranking it 183rd in the nation.[25]

Dr. Thames' work to respond to the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina brought praise from the community. In October 2005, the Faculty Senate of the Gulf Park campus passed an official resolution of appreciation. The Hattiesburg American reported that Thames' post-Katrina accost to the kinesthesia at Hattiesburg was well received. Thames avoided laying off whatever Academy employees after the tempest, although the Gulf Park campus alone sustained over $100 one thousand thousand in harm. (Past contrast, Tulane Academy in New Orleans released approximately 25% of the staff. It dropped significant athletic and academic programs, including the Information science major and virtually technology programs, in retrenchment later on closure and harm to the campus.)

The Thames assistants gained financing and supervised execution of several construction projects on campus, ofttimes in partnership with private-sector entities. An addition to the student union houses the second-largest Barnes & Noble shop in the southern U.S., which is open to the customs. Barnes & Noble pays $1.5 million in almanac rent on this facility. Thames besides negotiated a financially favorable nutrient services agreement with Aramark (who will donate $nine million to university construction projects). Other enhancements include the upscale Ability Firm restaurant (at a former college power plant adapted for this use); the $fifteen meg sorority hamlet; additions to the football game, basketball game, and baseball game facilities; and urban design elements to make the campus more than open, "green," and pedestrian-friendly.

The university experienced an unexpected, highly publicized drib from "Tier 3" to "Tier 4" in the U.Due south. News & Earth Report college rankings beginning in the 2004 edition. This roughly coincided with the height of the Shelby Thames controversy, when he fired tenured professors for "dissension". Several organizations scrutinized the legality of his actions, as tenure was designed to protect academic independence. In 2004, the USM Faculty Senate expressed their grievances to Thames after the allegations were heard.[26] The Faculty Senate after published a review of the Thames Assistants describing its controversies.[27] After Thames resigned, past 2009, U.S. News & World Report again ranked the university as in the upper portion of "Tier 3.".[28] In the 2011 U.S. News & Globe Report College ranking, USM was in the "Tier 2". In 2016, USM was ranked by U.Due south. News & World Report 125th in national public universities and 220th in national universities.[29]

USM is too ranked highly by Washington Monthly, which has criticized rankings by U.S. News & World Report and developed its ain system. These rankings attempt to make a more holistic assessment of an institution'due south value; USM ranked 98th out of 245 doctoral institutions. This was the highest ranking of any school in Mississippi. As of 2018[update], Washington Monthly ranked USM 235th in national universities overall.[21]

On February x, 2013, an EF4 wedge tornado tore through the Southern Miss campus, causing tens of millions of dollars in damage. The tornado formed in western Hattiesburg and continued into Southwestern Alabama. The tornado destroyed 2 buildings and damaged vi others. As most students were abroad for Mardi Gras break and there were avant-garde warnings of the tornado, there were no fatalities and few injuries on campus.

In June 2022 Southern Miss released a statement on the removal of the Mississippi state flag from all USM campuses.[thirty] Afterward that twelvemonth on October 25, 2015, university president Rodney D. Bennett released another argument, announcing that the university would but raise flags that he felt united all students. Since the removal of the state flag, protests to bring dorsum the flag take become common Lord's day occurrence on the Hattiesburg campus.[31]

Gilded Eagle logo dispute [edit]

In 2003, Southern Miss replaced their attack hawkeye logo from the 1990s with an eagle head logo. 2 years after, when Southern Miss attempted to trademark the new logo, the University of Iowa filed against information technology, for they believed it looked besides similar to their Hawkeyes logo.[32] The new logo was very popular, and was placed on sports venues, advertising, and all merchandise.[33] In August 2011, the Us Patent and Trademark Office denied the trademark.[34] In 2014, Southern Miss revealed a new logo that was a redesigned version of the 2003 logo. This new logo was copyrighted and has by and large replaced the 2003 logo.[35]

Ground forces ROTC closure [edit]

In early October 2013, the U.S. Regular army announced that, due to financial constraints and the low production rate of commissioned officers, 13 ROTC programs at diverse universities would be close down, including the Gilded Eagle Battalion of Southern Miss.[36] The programs were to be concluded by the end of the 2014–2015 spring semester, but the universities attempted to appeal the determination.[37] On October 12, a press conference was held at USM to protest the closure; speakers included Governor Phil Bryant and Major General Augustus Collins.[38] In early November, the Army said it had changed its plan to end programs at specified institutions, putting them on a two-yr probation, with reevaluation.[39] USM has been taken off probation and the ROTC program continues.

Campus [edit]

Hattiesburg campus in 2011

Aerial view of Bennett Auditorium (left), Lucas Administration Building (rear, dome), and Forrest County Hall (right) from the Johnson Science Belfry

Gulf Park campus [edit]

The university'due south operations on the Mississippi Gulf Coast began in 1947 when Mississippi Southern College get-go organized classes at Van Hook Hall, on the Methodist Camp Grounds in Biloxi. In 1958, the operation was moved to Mary L. Michael Junior Loftier School in Biloxi. To meet the educational needs of diverse occupational fields, the university relocated in 1964 to Keesler Air Force Base of operations. In addition, it obtained classroom facilities for night classes from the Jefferson Davis campus of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College. It chosen this complex the USM Harrison County Resident Eye. 1 of the nearly prominent landmarks on campus is the Friendship Oak. This huge live oak tree on the lawn of Hardy Hall and the Administration Building, dates from approximately 1487. The earliest available reference to the moniker Friendship Oak is found in an commodity written by Bob Davis, correspondent for the New York Lord's day. He described the tree in his book People, People, Everywhere (1936).

In September 1966, Southern Miss extended its offerings by calculation the Jackson Canton Resident Center, located on the Jackson County campus of the MGCCC in Gautier. The Jackson County Centre was congenital for the university by the Jackson County Board of Supervisors. This effort was encouraged by Dr. Shelby Thames when he was executive vice president of USM. The eye was synthetic with the intention of enabling students in Jackson County to complete four-year degrees in several fields through combined programs at MGCCC and USM. In 2009, nonetheless, the university decided to close its Jackson County Center and consolidate course offerings at other instruction sites on the Gulf Coast.

The Gulf Park College for Women in Gulfport, Mississippi, opened in 1921. The last first was held in 1971 and the Academy of Southern Mississippi acquired the campus in 1972.[40] In March 1972, USM moved its Harrison County Resident Center program from the Jefferson Davis campus of MGCCC to this newly acquired campus, located on Highway 90 in Long Beach.

In July 1972, the Board of Trustees of Country Institutions of Higher Learning established the USM Gulf Park and Keesler Air Strength Base Center as an upper-level degree completion regional campus of the university. It offered programs leading to degrees at the baccalaureate and graduate levels. University development has continued and on Baronial xix, 2002, Southern Miss admitted its first class of freshmen on its Gulf Park Campus. USM is the only comprehensive university in the country with dual-campus status.

In the early on 21st century the Gulf Park campus serves as the central campus for several remote teaching centers, including:

  • The Stennis Space Center Teaching and Inquiry Site is located in Hancock Canton on the Mississippi-Louisiana border; it is NASA'south largest rocket engine test facility. Stennis also is home to the university'southward Department of Marine Science.
  • Gulf Coast Student Service Center Education Site: located in Gulfport, this became the interim site of the Gulf Park campus following Hurricane Katrina, from 2005 to 2012.
  • Gulf Coast Enquiry Laboratory Teaching and Inquiry Site (GCRL), located in Bounding main Springs, is dwelling house of the Department of Coastal Sciences, the Center for Fisheries and Enquiry and Development, the Marine Educational activity Center, and the Thad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Centre.
  • Point Cadet Teaching Site, located in Biloxi. The R/V Tommy Munro, a 97-foot research vessel, is a unit of GCRL and docks at Point Cadet.
  • The Keesler Center, located on Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, provides courses for war machine personnel as well every bit the civilian community.

Other USM units in the Gulf Coast region are elements of the College of Marine Sciences; the Gulf Coast Inquiry Laboratory in Body of water Springs; the J. L. Scott Marine Didactics Heart and Aquarium on Point Cadet in Biloxi; the Hydrographic Scientific discipline Research Centre; and the Center for Marine Sciences at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock Canton.

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina acquired about $115 million in damage to Gulf Park. Classes were relocated to the Healthmark Center in Gulfport. In 2012, the Gulfport campus was closed and all facilities were moved back to the renovated Long Beach campus.[41] The Friendship Oak survived this tempest equally information technology survived Hurricane Camille and endless bottom storms that have hit the area.

Libraries [edit]

  • The Cook Library, located on the Hattiesburg campus, contains the principal collections of books, periodicals, microforms, government documents and other materials which direct support the instructional programs of The University of Southern Mississippi at all levels.
  • The McCain Library and Archives houses the Library's Special Collections and University Archives on the Hattiesburg campus. Collections include the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection too every bit Mississippi oral history, manuscripts, and civil state of war materials.
  • The Gulf Coast Library, located on the Long Beach campus, is function of the Academy Libraries serving the Gulf Declension campuses (Gulf Park, Keesler, and Jackson County campuses). This state-of-the-art library is the but comprehensive university library on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
  • The Gunter Library is located at the Gulf Declension Research Laboratory (GCRL), Bounding main Springs, MS campus. The Library provides technical information for the research staff, resident kinesthesia and students, and visitors. Included are files of abstracts and reprints, books and journals, expedition reports, dissertations, and reference works. Special volume collections support the academic plan of the Laboratory.

Landmarks [edit]

Aubrey Yard. Lucas Assistants Edifice, the "Dome"

  • The District is located near the intersection of US Highway 49 and Hardy Street. The historic commune of campus is anchored by the 5 original buildings of the campus: Ogletree Alumni House, The Honor House, College Hall, Forrest Hall, and Hattiesburg Hall. Information technology is also the traditional tailgating site for students during football flavour. It is home to Lake Byron, which has served every bit a focal point for many university activities and several weddings.
  • The Century Gate is a brick and stone wall at the front of the academy, betwixt Due east and W Memorial Drive. Information technology was built to commemorate the 100th ceremony of the academy'southward founding in 1910. It displays the academy seal, likewise every bit the words "The University of Southern Mississippi."
  • The All-American Rose Garden is one of two All-American Gardens in the land. The garden at Southern Miss was developed past the Hattiesburg Surface area Rose Club in 1972 through the leadership of the late William Wicht, a Hattiesburg resident who served every bit the first president of HARS. A memorial to Wicht's efforts to make the garden a reality is located next to the garden. Since its official dedication in 1974, the Southern Miss rose garden has received numerous awards for maintenance and brandish. Many a student has tried to print his sweetheart past picking a rose, which if caught, carries a fine of upward to 500 dollars.

The All-American Rose Garden is a rose garden found near Hardy Street on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi. The garden has a semicircular class and contains many diverse types of hybrid roses in 32 rose beds. It existed since 1973 and was accredited the condition 'Public Rose Garden' by the All-American Rose Selection Inc. in 1975.[42] Many biologists and botanists come up from all over the world to written report the roses institute in the rose garden.[43] [44] [45] [46] Due to the big number of rare roses constitute in the rose garden, plucking out a rose is against college policy, and getting caught currently results in a fine of $500.[ane]

  • The Hawkeye Walk is found underneath the upper deck of Grand.M. Roberts Stadium. Two hours prior to football game day, a cannon is fired, which begins the procession. ROTC, The Pride of Mississippi Marching Band, university officials, and football players make a march through this street to the cheers of thousands of fans. Every fall, the incoming freshman give the walls and street a "fresh coat of pigment" equally they have done for half a century.
  • The Dome is a nickname for the Lucas Administration edifice found at the Hardy Street entrance to campus. Information technology is so named due to the large cupola at the top of the roof. Originally, it was an orange color of copper. This faded to a boring green over the years. In 2001, a restoration project was undertaken which painted the dome back to its original copper color. Currently, it houses the offices of the president, vice president and other supporting staff.
  • Shoemaker Square is an expanse of land formed nigh The Hub and the Walker Science Edifice Quad. The bricked fountain is focal signal of the "Friday Night At the Fountain", a educatee-led pep rally prior to Sat football games. The fountain has been tainted with soap suds by pranksters on many occasions.
  • The Little Rock tin be found in the historic district of campus. Information technology is traditionally painted weekly and is used to promote various campus athletic, academic and fine art events. Occasionally, it can exist found to be painted with logos of secret societies that exist on campus.
  • The Eagle Statue, formally named "Lofty Return", is a massive three-ton sculpture of a Golden eagle, measuring 22 feet tall and 20 feet wide, and resting on an eight-pes-loftier pedestal. It stands behind Southern Hall, facing Hardy Street. A slightly smaller replica of it was likewise erected on the Gulf Park campus every bit a symbol tying the two campuses together.[47]

Academics [edit]

College Hall, ane of the original structures

Scianna Hall, home of the College of Business and Economic Development

Liberal Arts Building (left) and International Heart (right)

Southern Miss offers approximately 189 programs leading to baccalaureate, master's, specialist, and doctorate degrees. Southern Miss has traditionally drawn many of its students from Mississippi schools and community colleges, hailing from every canton in Mississippi, though today the majority of undergraduates come from public schools across the southern Us and around the earth. The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and its programs are accredited by xxx state and national agencies.[48]

The University of Southern Mississippi offers more than 250 clubs and organizations, every bit well as intramural athletics and special events. Pupil organizations at Southern Miss include the Student Regime Association, The Legacy, The Educatee Printz (the biweekly student-produced newspaper), The Southerner (the yearbook), Southern Style (the university's pupil orientation team), national fraternities and sororities, honor societies, and diverse religious organizations. In addition, the school participates in the NCAA's Division I-A, and Conference United states featuring twelvemonth-round athletics in 16 sports. Southern Miss also hosts, participates in, and promotes more 300 cultural events every yr. Regular events include the Jazz and Blues Festival held on the Long Beach campus, performances past the theater, dance and music departments, and exhibits presented by the art department.[49] The academy's Dale Center for the Report of War and Society hosts several lectures and programs throughout the year. Several guest lecturers including General David Petraeus (2017), Dr. Robert M. Gates (2014), and one-time Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (2010) visited Hattiesburg equally a part of the center's Dale Distinguished Lecture Serial. 2022 marked the 13th annual Richard McCarthy Lecture Serial, wherein students and the customs at big could participate in a broad range of events and programming from panel discussions to roundtables focusing on war and the effects information technology has on the societies surrounding it.[50]

The University of Southern Mississippi is governed past the University President along with the Mississippi Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning.[51] The President of the Academy of Southern Mississippi is the day-to-day administrator of Southern Miss and is appointed past and responsible to the State Institutions of Higher Learning Board. Dr. Rodney D. Bennett became the 10th president of the university in April 2013.

Colleges and schools [edit]

The University of Southern Mississippi recently began an bookish reorganization changing the bookish structure at the university and the roles of administrators. This programme reduced the number of colleges from vi to iv and consolidated traditional departments into thematic schools.[52] [53]

In addition to its bookish colleges, The University of Southern Mississippi also offers the following programs:

  • George R. Olliphant Honors Higher[54]
  • Graduate Studies[55]
  • International Studies Program[56]
  • Fully Online Programs in Sport Management (M.S.) and Sport Coaching Didactics (Thousand.Due south.)[57]
  • DuBard School for Language Disorders[58]
  • Frances A. Karnes Center for Gifted Studies

Educatee life [edit]

Trent Lott National Center for Excellence in Economical Development and Entrepreneurship

Semesters at the university run from August to December and January to May, with a 10-week summer session. There are two four-week accelerated summertime terms.

In Fall 2006, The University of Southern Mississippi dedicated a 4-story, multimillion-dollar improver to its R.C. Melt University Matrimony. The Thad Cochran Center now houses a ii-story Barnes & Noble Bookstore, iii ballrooms, a stadium-style theater, student organization offices, and Southern Miss Dining and Fresh Nutrient Company. Several meeting rooms are within the union complex. The Union and Programs team hosts more than a thousand events each year.

In Fall 2010, the University of Southern Mississippi opened Century Park (now known as Century Park North), a gated living community with four residence halls and a multi-purpose building containing a convenience shop. In the 2014–2015 schoolhouse yr, the university opened Century Park Southward, another gated living community with three residence halls and the campus'south new student health center.

At nearly 300, Southern Miss' pupil organizations appeal to a wide spectrum of interests: Business, Pedagogy and Psychology, the Arts, Games and Athletics, Graduate Studies, Greek Life, Wellness and Human being Sciences, Honors Societies, Liberal Arts, the Military, Religious Life, Residence Halls, Community Service, and Science and Technology. The largest organizations based on educatee membership include the: Student Regime Association, African-American Educatee Organization, Southern Miss Activities Council, The Legacy Student Alumni Association, and Baptist Student Matrimony.

The academy has 26 Greek organizations on campus, including 14 fraternities and 12 sororities. In that location are xix fraternity and sorority houses.[59]

Dining Services [edit]

The Academy of Southern Mississippi holds a contract with Aramark to provide dining services. Known every bit Eagle Dining on campus, Aramark operates multiple eateries on campus as well every bit iv Provisions on Demand (POD) locations, which are small retail operations similar to convenience stores.

Eagle Dining operates the post-obit dining locations:

  • The Fresh Food Company, located on the 1st Floor of the Thad Cochran Heart, a buffet style deli and the master dining location for students and visitors
  • The Agora, a food court located in the International Center containing Bento Sushi and Einstein Bros. Bagels
  • Seymour'due south, a nutrient court located in the RC Cook University Union containing Subway and Chick-Fil-A
  • Freshens, located in Asbury Hall
  • Southern Wing Company (formerly The Powerhouse), located straight north of Cook Library and next to the Math Zone
  • The Grub Slinger, a food truck with differing locations based on the twenty-four hour period of the calendar week
  • Starbucks, located on the 1st Floor of Cook Library

Eagle Dining operates the following Provisions on Demand (POD) locations:

  • Century Park North Learning Heart
  • Liberal Arts Building
  • Scianna Hall
  • Thad Cochran Eye 1st Floor, outside of The Fresh Food Company

Residential Housing [edit]

The University of Southern Mississippi has 13 residence halls, and about five,000 students live on campus throughout the school year.

Century Park Southward dormitories

Restored, second-growth longleaf pino (Pinus palustris) savannah at USM's Lake Thoreau Ecology Eye, located along the runway-to-trails Longleaf Trace which passes backside the Century Park dormitories

Residence halls:

  • Wilber Hall – houses males and females on separate floors; offers single and double rooms; communal bathrooms on each floor
  • Hattiesburg Hall – houses females; offers single rooms; shared bath between three rooms
  • Mississippi Hall – houses males; offers single rooms; likewise houses Residence Hall Association (RHA) in basement; shared bathroom between 3 rooms
  • Hillcrest Hall – houses females; offers single and double rooms; shared bath between two rooms
  • Scholarship Hall – houses females; private ensuite bathrooms
  • McCarty Hall
    • Individual ensuite bathrooms
    • McCarty Hall N
    • McCarty Hall South
  • Century Park North
    • Individual ensuite bathrooms
    • Building one
    • Building 2
    • Building 3
    • Edifice iv
  • Century Park South
    • Private ensuite bathrooms in Vann and Scott Halls, private bathrooms in hall at Luckyday Hall
    • Luckyday Citizenship Hall – houses Luckyday Citizenship Scholars
    • Vann Hall – houses males and females on separate floors
    • Scott Hall – houses males and females on carve up floors, also houses Moffitt Health Center on its First Floor

Airtight residence halls:

  • Pulley Hall
  • Roberts Hall

Greek Life Housing:

  • The Village, a community-style living surface area that houses the current National Panhellenic Conference sororities and the National Pan-Hellenic Council sororities, besides every bit Upperclass Scholarship, Nursing, and Able-bodied women.
  • Fraternity Row
    • Dwelling house to 8 fraternity houses

Apartments:

  • Cedarbrook Apartments, located on the w side of campus, offer 1 sleeping room units with in-unit laundry

Repurposed Residence Halls:

  • Bond Hall – home to University Police, Educatee Counseling Services, Office of the Controller, Office of Inquiry Accommodations, and Function of Disability Accommodations
  • Hickman Hall – dwelling house to Department of Housing and Residence Life
  • Jones Hall – home to University Communications, USM Foundation, and a Telephone call Center
  • Bolton Hall – home to Seymour's Career Cupboard (relocated to Bolton Hall in 2021)
  • Forrest Canton Hall – home to Business Services Office

Publications and media [edit]

  • Southern Miss Now is the official news source of the Academy Communications Office.[60]
  • The Pupil Printz is the university's student-run newspaper, published twice weekly during the fall and spring semesters.
  • The Southerner is the university's full-color yearbook publication. The Southerner was discontinued in 2015.
  • WUSM FM 88.v is the 3000-watt Southern Miss public radio FM station, located on the first floor of Southern Hall.
  • Mississippi Review [61] [62] is a quarterly published journal that features fiction, verse, and essays. Gordon Weaver founded it in 1970.[63] Frederick Barthelme became editor in 1977.[64] In 1995, it was the first large literary mag to launch a fully online outcome.[65] [66] In 1998, its print version was published twice yearly, the online version, a separate publication, was published monthly except August, by Center for Writers at The University of Southern Mississippi.[63]
  • The Drawl is a publication that highlights the traditions and history of Southern Miss. Incoming Gilded Eagles are given a copy of The Drawl in their showtime week of school.
  • The Talon is a quarterly mag for alumni and friends of the university.[67]

Mardi Gras holiday [edit]

Mardi Gras parade on Hardy Street

The University of Southern Mississippi is one of the few universities to allow a two-24-hour interval vacation each year for Mardi Gras. The university does not hold classes on the Monday and Tuesday earlier Ash Wednesday.

In the late 1970s and early on 1980s, many USM students expressed a desire for the holiday. The academy is virtually New Orleans and has ties to Biloxi and Mobile, where Mardi Gras is also celebrated. In 1981, Ken Stribling, president of USM'southward pupil body, organized a student drive to establish an annual holiday on Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras). The academy'southward Calendar Committee refused the asking, merely Stribling appealed to USM President Aubrey Lucas. At an annual Christmas celebration at USM in Dec 1981, Lucas announced that USM would try the holiday on Fat Tuesday in 1982 to see how it worked. Stribling appealed again in 1982, and Lucas immune the holiday for Fat Tuesday in 1983. The next yr, the vacation for Fatty Tuesday was made a permanent part of the university's agenda.

The university'due south student government in 2003 gained addition of the Mon before Ash Wednesday as part of the Mardi Gras Holiday, creating a two-day holiday for the result and a 4-day weekend for students. While many USM students attend Mardi Gras celebrations, the majority of students use the 4-day weekend to prepare for mid-term exams or visit family and friends. The novelty of Mardi Gras Holiday has get a recruiting tool.[68]

Athletics [edit]

The Golden Eagles have excelled in all areas of athletics. Southern Miss has captured national titles twice in football and three times in track and field. In 2011, the Aureate Hawkeye football team finished as the No. 19 team in the Associated Press (AP) College Poll. The Gilt Eagle football game team has also competed in twenty-four bowl games throughout the course of the plan'due south history. It is important to note that twelve of these basin games have resulted in a victory for the Golden Eagles.[69] On November thirteen, 1982, the Gilded Eagle football team upset Alabama's Crimson Tide in famed omnibus Bear Bryant'south last home game in Tuscaloosa.[70] 1000.M. Roberts Stadium is the dwelling of the Golden Eagle football team and can concord up to 36,000 fans.[71] The Golden Eagle baseball team are 2-time Conference USA champions and have been invited to twelve regional NCAA tournaments and also a trip to the Higher World Series. The Golden Eagle baseball team has the No. 3 recruiting class in the land by Baseball game America. The Southern Miss basketball game team is a one-fourth dimension champion of the NIT tournament.

Fine arts [edit]

The University of Southern Mississippi is the only institution inside the state, and one of a dozen universities in America, to be accredited in all four fine arts accent areas: art, dance, theatre and music.[ citation needed ] Information technology operates the Southern Miss Current of air Ensemble and the USM Symphony Orchestra,[72] [ citation needed ] which has enjoyed soloists such every bit singers Renee Fleming and Ray Charles, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, violinist Joshua Bong, flautist James Galway, clarinetist Anthony McGill, trumpet thespian Doc Severinsen, and tenor Plácido Domingo. The Southern Chorale has go nationally and internationally recognized. They recently performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City and performed at various concerts in Kingdom of norway and Sweden. The Southern Miss Pride of Mississippi Marching Ring has performed at such events as the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter and Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York in Nov 2010. The Department of Theatre and Dance has been active in the Kennedy Centre/American Higher Theatre Festival at times recently placing first in various areas of the national competition. Several productions from USM take been selected for performance at the Region IV (Southeast) festival; two productions (Catfish Moon & The Rimers of Eldritch) take been invited to the national KC/ACTF festival at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, D.C..

Notable alumni and faculty [edit]

  • Notable people

  • Mike L. Edmonds, 14th President of Colorado College[73]

See likewise [edit]

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