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Public university in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US

The University of Southern Mississippi

Former names	Mississippi Normal College (1910–1924)[one] Mississippi Country Teachers College (1924–1940) Mississippi Southern College (1940–1962)
Type	Public inquiry academy
Established	March 30, 1910; 112 years ago  (1910-03-30)
Academic amalgamation	SURA ORAU Sea-grant Space-grant
Endowment	$103.5 million (2020)[two]
President	Rodney D. Bennett
Provost	Steven R. Moser
Academic staff	899 (Fall 2017)[three]
Students	14,606 (Autumn 2020)[three]
Undergraduates	eleven,451
Postgraduates	3,155
Location	Hattiesburg , Mississippi , United States 31°xix′47″N 89°20′02″W  /  31.329638°N 89.333847°W  / 31.329638; -89.333847 Coordinates: 31°19′47″N 89°20′02″W  /  31.329638°N 89.333847°Westward  / 31.329638; -89.333847
Campus	Urban, 300 acres (1.2 km2)
Colors	Black, gold[iv]
Nickname	Gold Eagles
Sporting affiliations	NCAA Partition I – Conference Usa (until 2023) Lord's day Belt Conference (starting 2023)
Website	usm.edu

The Academy of Southern Mississippi (USM or Southern Miss) is a public research university with its principal campus in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. It is accredited past the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award bachelor'south, primary's, specialist, and doctoral degrees. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity".^[5]

Founded on March 30, 1910, the academy is a dual campus establishment, with the main campus located in Hattiesburg and the other big campus, Gulf Park, in Long Beach. It has 5 boosted teaching and research sites, including the John C. Stennis Space Heart and the Gulf Declension Enquiry Laboratory (GCRL).

Originally called the Mississippi Southerners, the Southern Miss athletic teams became the Gold Eagles in 1972. The school's colors, blackness and gold, were selected by a student trunk vote soon subsequently the school was founded. While mascots, names, customs, and the campus take changed, the black and gilded colors have remained constant. USM's 17 sport programs participate in NCAA Segmentation I athletics, mainly as members of Conference U.s..

History [edit]

The beginning v buildings erected on the university's Hattiesburg campus

The University of Southern Mississippi was founded on March 30, 1910, equally Mississippi Normal Higher, a teacher-training schoolhouse. The Normal College was created to standardize the process of training upcoming teachers. Before the being of a specialized didactics college, instructors were required to travel throughout Mississippi in preparation for pedagogy their students.^[6] R. H. Hunt designed several of the campus buildings.^[vii] The college'south commencement president, Joseph Anderson Melt, presided over the opening session of instruction on September eighteen, 1912, and oversaw the construction of Higher Hall (the academic building); Forrest County Hall (men's and married students' dormitory); Hattiesburg Hall (women's dormitory); the Industrial Cottage (preparation laboratory for home management); and the president'due south abode (now the Ogletree Alumni House). In its first session, Mississippi Normal College had a total enrollment of 876 students, and stood for "clean, pure, efficient lives."^[8]

As the school developed its curriculum and departments, its name inverse to reflect its progress: in 1924, to Mississippi State Teachers Higher, and in 1940, to Mississippi Southern Higher.

The college'south fifth president, Land Archivist Dr. William David McCain, was installed in 1955 and worked to expand Mississippi Southern Higher. He oversaw the construction 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 February 27, 1962, Barnett signed the bill into law which officially renamed the schoolhouse as the University of Southern Mississippi.

William David McCain (left) with Gov. Ross Barnett and Lt. Gov. Paul B. Johnson at signing of neb granting university condition

Desegregation and civil rights [edit]

In 1954 the United States Supreme Courtroom ruled in Brownish 5. Board of Education that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional. But when Clyde Kennard, a blackness Korean War veteran, attempted to enroll at Mississippi Southern College in the late 1950s, McCain made major efforts with the country political establishment and local black leaders to forestall it. Kennard was turned down three times. After he wrote letters about educational integration to the local paper, he was twice arrested on trumped-up criminal charges; he was somewhen convicted and sentenced to seven years in the state prison.

McCain's direct involvement in this abuse of the justice system is unclear. He was probable aware that the charges against Kennard were fraudulent, merely neither he nor other public officials made whatever objection.^{[nine] [ten] [xi] [12]} Speaking to businessmen in Chicago on a trip sponsored by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, McCain said: "Nosotros insist that educationally and socially, we maintain a segregated social club. ... In all fairness, I acknowledge that we are not encouraging Negro voting," he said. "The Negroes prefer that control of the government remain in the white human's hands."^{[9] [10] [12]} Kennard was finally released on parole in 1963, when he was terminally ill with cancer; he died 6 months later.

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

By the early 1960s, national pressure was growing to integrate Mississippi'due south institutions of higher learning. McCain was well known to vehemently oppose having whatsoever blackness students at Mississippi Southern. In 1962 James Meredith attempted to enroll at the University of Mississippi, the state's flagship establishment.^[9] His enrollment was accomplished after white rioting and use of federal troops to end the violence.

By the fall of 1965 both Ole Miss and Mississippi State University had been integrated – the onetime violently, the latter peacefully. McCain, USM and country leaders recognized the state needed to integrate to appeal to businesses from outside the land. They made extensive confidential plans for the access of their offset blackness students. A faculty guardian and tutor was secretly appointed for each to help with the transition. The campus police section was instructed to prevent or apace stop any incident against the two black students. Pupil athletic, fraternity, and political leaders were recruited to keep 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 consequence, blackness students Gwendolyn Elaine Armstrong and Raylawni Co-operative were enrolled without incident in September 1965.^{[13] [14]} In 2018, USM unveiled a Freedom Trail Marking in honour of Clyde Kennard, in front of Kennard Washington Hall, named later him and the first African-American doctoral student to graduate from USM, Walter Washington. Shortly thereafter, at the bound beginning ceremonies in May 2018, Clyde Kennard was posthumously awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa from USM.^{[xv] [sixteen]} A student in Kennard's Sunday Schoolhouse class at Mary Magdalene Baptist Church in Eatonville, Mississippi, accepted the award 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 person 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 member of the organisation and professor emeritus of media at the academy, described AACS as an "instrumental part of educatee life for black students" attending the academy in the belatedly 1960s. The organization was later on renamed as the African American Pupil Organization (AASO) in the 1990s.^[18]

The transition of the 1960s to the 1970s gave way to a surge of social activism and major changes inside the university. In response to growing concerns of blackness students, the university ramped its efforts to hire black kinesthesia. In 1972, "General Nat" (Amalgamated General Nathan Bedford Forrest) was discarded in favor of the Golden Eagles. In 1974, standout football histrion Fred Cook was voted as the showtime blackness Mr. USM. The first black Greek organizations premiered in 1975.^[6] Past the fourth dimension McCain retired in 1975, enrollment had climbed to 11,000 students.^[14]

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

Presidents [edit]

• Joseph Anderson "Joe" Cook – 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 Report [23]	298–389[20]
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 significant increase in the quantity of research conducted at the academy. USM was classified as a "Doctoral / Research All-encompassing" university by the Carnegie Foundation during the Thames era.^[5] According to the National Science Foundation, USM spent $61 million on enquiry 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' mail service-Katrina address to the faculty at Hattiesburg was well received. Thames avoided laying off whatever University employees after the storm, although the Gulf Park campus lonely sustained over $100 million in impairment. (Past dissimilarity, Tulane University in New Orleans released approximately 25% of the staff. Information technology dropped significant athletic and academic programs, including the Computer science major and nigh engineering programs, in retrenchment subsequently closure and impairment to the campus.)

The Thames administration gained financing and supervised execution of several construction projects on campus, often in partnership with private-sector entities. An addition to the educatee union houses the 2nd-largest Barnes & Noble store in the southern U.S., which is open to the community. Barnes & Noble pays $1.five 1000000 in annual rent on this facility. Thames also negotiated a financially favorable food services agreement with Aramark (who volition donate $9 million to academy construction projects). Other enhancements include the upscale Power House eating place (at a former college power plant adapted for this utilize); the $15 million sorority village; additions to the football, basketball game, and baseball facilities; and urban design elements to make the campus more open up, "green," and pedestrian-friendly.

The university experienced an unexpected, highly publicized drib from "Tier 3" to "Tier iv" in the U.S. News & World Study higher rankings beginning in the 2004 edition. This roughly coincided with the tiptop 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 Kinesthesia Senate expressed their grievances to Thames after the allegations were heard.^[26] The Kinesthesia Senate later published a review of the Thames Administration describing its controversies.^[27] After Thames resigned, by 2009, U.S. News & World Study once again ranked the university as in the upper portion of "Tier three.".^[28] In the 2011 U.Due south. News & World Report Higher ranking, USM was in the "Tier ii". In 2016, USM was ranked past U.S. News & Globe Report 125th in national public universities and 220th in national universities.^[29]

USM is also ranked highly by Washington Monthly, which has criticized rankings by U.South. News & World Report and adult its own organisation. These rankings attempt to make a more holistic assessment of an institution's value; USM ranked 98th out of 245 doctoral institutions. This was the highest ranking of any school in Mississippi. Equally of 2018^[update], Washington Monthly ranked USM 235th in national universities overall.^[21]

On Feb ten, 2013, an EF4 wedge tornado tore through the Southern Miss campus, causing tens of millions of dollars in harm. The tornado formed in western Hattiesburg and continued into Southwestern Alabama. The tornado destroyed two buildings and damaged half-dozen others. As nearly students were away for Mardi Gras break and there were avant-garde warnings of the tornado, there were no fatalities and few injuries on campus.

In June 2015 Southern Miss released a argument on the removal of the Mississippi state flag from all USM campuses.^[thirty] Later that year on Oct 25, 2015, university president Rodney D. Bennett released another statement, announcing that the university would only raise flags that he felt united all students. Since the removal of the state flag, protests to bring back the flag take go mutual Lord's day occurrence on the Hattiesburg campus.^[31]

Golden Eagle logo dispute [edit]

In 2003, Southern Miss replaced their attack eagle logo from the 1990s with an hawkeye head logo. Two years subsequently, when Southern Miss attempted to trademark the new logo, the University of Iowa filed against it, for they believed it looked too similar to their Hawkeyes logo.^[32] The new logo was very pop, and was placed on sports venues, advertising, and all merchandise.^[33] In Baronial 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 mostly replaced the 2003 logo.^[35]

Army ROTC closure [edit]

In early October 2013, the U.S. Ground forces announced that, due to financial constraints and the depression production rate of commissioned officers, 13 ROTC programs at diverse universities would exist shut downwardly, including the Golden Eagle Battalion of Southern Miss.^[36] The programs were to be ended by the end of the 2014–2015 spring semester, only the universities attempted to entreatment the decision.^[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 on November, the Ground forces said it had changed its programme to end programs at specified institutions, putting them on a two-year probation, with reevaluation.^[39] USM has been taken off probation and the ROTC program continues.

Campus [edit]

Hattiesburg campus in 2011

Aeriform view of Bennett Auditorium (left), Lucas Assistants Edifice (rear, dome), and Forrest Canton Hall (correct) from the Johnson Scientific discipline Tower

Gulf Park campus [edit]

The university's operations on the Mississippi Gulf Coast began in 1947 when Mississippi Southern College first organized classes at Van Hook Hall, on the Methodist Camp Grounds in Biloxi. In 1958, the functioning was moved to Mary L. Michael Junior High School in Biloxi. To meet the educational needs of various occupational fields, the academy relocated in 1964 to Keesler Air Forcefulness Base. In addition, it obtained classroom facilities for night classes from the Jefferson Davis campus of the Mississippi Gulf Declension Junior College. Information technology chosen this complex the USM Harrison Canton Resident Center. One of the near prominent landmarks on campus is the Friendship Oak. This huge live oak tree on the backyard of Hardy Hall and the Administration Building, dates from approximately 1487. The earliest available reference to the moniker Friendship Oak is plant in an article written by Bob Davis, correspondent for the New York Sun. He described the tree in his book People, People, Everywhere (1936).

In September 1966, Southern Miss extended its offerings by adding the Jackson County Resident Centre, located on the Jackson County campus of the MGCCC in Gautier. The Jackson County Centre was built for the university by the Jackson County Lath of Supervisors. This try was encouraged by Dr. Shelby Thames when he was executive vice president of USM. The center was constructed with the intention of enabling students in Jackson County to consummate four-year degrees in several fields through combined programs at MGCCC and USM. In 2009, all the same, the academy decided to close its Jackson County Eye and consolidate course offerings at other teaching sites on the Gulf Coast.

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

In July 1972, the Lath of Trustees of Land Institutions of College Learning established the USM Gulf Park and Keesler Air Force Base Center every bit an upper-level caste completion regional campus of the academy. It offered programs leading to degrees at the baccalaureate and graduate levels. Academy development has connected and on Baronial 19, 2002, Southern Miss admitted its offset class of freshmen on its Gulf Park Campus. USM is the simply comprehensive university in the country with dual-campus status.

In the early 21st century the Gulf Park campus serves every bit the central campus for several remote education centers, including:

• The Stennis Space Center Educational activity and Research Site is located in Hancock County on the Mississippi-Louisiana border; information technology is NASA's largest rocket engine test facility. Stennis besides is home to the university's Department of Marine Science.
• Gulf Coast Pupil Service Center Instruction Site: located in Gulfport, this became the interim site of the Gulf Park campus post-obit Hurricane Katrina, from 2005 to 2012.
• Gulf Coast Enquiry Laboratory Teaching and Research Site (GCRL), located in Ocean Springs, is habitation of the Department of Coastal Sciences, the Center for Fisheries and Research and Development, the Marine Educational activity Middle, and the Thad Cochran Marine Aquaculture Eye.
• Indicate Cadet Teaching Site, located in Biloxi. The R/V Tommy Munro, a 97-human foot enquiry vessel, is a unit of measurement of GCRL and docks at Bespeak Cadet.
• The Keesler Center, located on Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, provides courses for military personnel besides as the noncombatant community.

Other USM units in the Gulf Coast region are elements of the Higher of Marine Sciences; the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs; the J. L. Scott Marine Educational activity Center and Aquarium on Betoken Cadet in Biloxi; the Hydrographic Scientific discipline Research Heart; and the Heart for Marine Sciences at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock Canton.

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina caused about $115 million in damage to Gulf Park. Classes were relocated to the Healthmark Centre in Gulfport. In 2012, the Gulfport campus was closed and all facilities were moved dorsum to the renovated Long Beach campus.^[41] The Friendship Oak survived this storm every bit it survived Hurricane Camille and countless lesser storms that have hit the surface area.

Libraries [edit]

• The Cook Library, located on the Hattiesburg campus, contains the chief collections of books, periodicals, microforms, authorities documents and other materials which directly support the instructional programs of The University of Southern Mississippi at all levels.
• The McCain Library and Athenaeum houses the Library's Special Collections and Academy Archives on the Hattiesburg campus. Collections include the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection besides as Mississippi oral history, manuscripts, and ceremonious state of war materials.
• The Gulf Coast Library, located on the Long Beach campus, is part of the University Libraries serving the Gulf Coast campuses (Gulf Park, Keesler, and Jackson County campuses). This state-of-the-art library is the merely comprehensive university library on the Mississippi Gulf Declension.
• The Gunter Library is located at the Gulf Coast Inquiry Laboratory (GCRL), Ocean Springs, MS campus. The Library provides technical information for the inquiry staff, resident faculty and students, and visitors. Included are files of abstracts and reprints, books and journals, expedition reports, dissertations, and reference works. Special volume collections back up the academic plan of the Laboratory.

Landmarks [edit]

Aubrey Thousand. Lucas Administration Building, the "Dome"

• The District is located virtually the intersection of US Highway 49 and Hardy Street. The historic district of campus is anchored by the 5 original buildings of the campus: Ogletree Alumni House, The Accolade House, College Hall, Forrest Hall, and Hattiesburg Hall. It is besides the traditional tailgating site for students during football flavour. It is abode to Lake Byron, which has served as a focal point for many university activities and several weddings.
• The Century Gate is a brick and stone wall at the front end of the university, betwixt Due east and West Memorial Drive. Information technology was built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the academy'southward founding in 1910. Information technology displays the academy seal, as well as the words "The University of Southern Mississippi."
• The All-American Rose Garden is one of two All-American Gardens in the state. The garden at Southern Miss was developed by the Hattiesburg Area Rose Society in 1972 through the leadership of the belatedly William Wicht, a Hattiesburg resident who served equally the showtime president of HARS. A memorial to Wicht'due south efforts to make the garden a reality is located side by side 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 impress his sweetheart past picking a rose, which if caught, carries a fine of up to 500 dollars.

The All-American Rose Garden is a rose garden institute almost Hardy Street on the campus of the University of Southern Mississippi. The garden has a semicircular form and contains many various types of hybrid roses in 32 rose beds. It existed since 1973 and was accredited the status 'Public Rose Garden' past the All-American Rose Selection Inc. in 1975.^[42] Many biologists and botanists come from all over the globe to study the roses found in the rose garden.^{[43] [44] [45] [46]} Due to the big number of rare roses establish in the rose garden, plucking out a rose is confronting college policy, and getting caught currently results in a fine of $500.^[1]

• The Hawkeye Walk is plant underneath the upper deck of Yard.Yard. Roberts Stadium. 2 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 requite the walls and street a "fresh coat of paint" as they take done for one-half a century.
• The Dome is a nickname for the Lucas Assistants building found at the Hardy Street entrance to campus. Information technology is so named due to the big cupola at the peak of the roof. Originally, it was an orange color of copper. This faded to a dull light-green over the years. In 2001, a restoration projection was undertaken which painted the dome dorsum 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 near The Hub and the Walker Science Building Quad. The bricked fountain is focal point of the "Fri Night At the Fountain", a pupil-led pep rally prior to Sat football games. The fountain has been tainted with soap suds by pranksters on many occasions.
• The Little Rock can be found in the historic district of campus. It is traditionally painted weekly and is used to promote various campus able-bodied, academic and fine art events. Occasionally, information technology can be found to be painted with logos of hugger-mugger societies that exist on campus.
• The Eagle Statue, formally named "Lofty Render", is a massive three-ton sculpture of a Gilt eagle, measuring 22 feet tall and 20 feet wide, and resting on an eight-human foot-high pedestal. Information technology stands behind Southern Hall, facing Hardy Street. A slightly smaller replica of information technology was besides erected on the Gulf Park campus equally a symbol tying the two campuses together.^[47]

Academics [edit]

College Hall, 1 of the original structures

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

Liberal Arts Edifice (left) and International Heart (correct)

Southern Miss offers approximately 189 programs leading to baccalaureate, master's, specialist, and doctorate degrees. Southern Miss has traditionally fatigued 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 United States and around the globe. The university is accredited past the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and its programs are accredited past xxx state and national agencies.^[48]

The University of Southern Mississippi offers more than 250 clubs and organizations, equally well as intramural athletics and special events. Student organizations at Southern Miss include the Pupil Government Association, The Legacy, The Pupil Printz (the biweekly pupil-produced newspaper), The Southerner (the yearbook), Southern Way (the university's educatee orientation team), national fraternities and sororities, award societies, and diverse religious organizations. In improver, the school participates in the NCAA's Sectionalization I-A, and Conference USA featuring year-round athletics in 16 sports. Southern Miss also hosts, participates in, and promotes more than 300 cultural events every twelvemonth. Regular events include the Jazz and Blues Festival held on the Long Beach campus, performances by the theater, trip the light fantastic and music departments, and exhibits presented by the art section.^[49] The university's Dale Eye for the Study of State of war and Club hosts several lectures and programs throughout the year. Several guest lecturers including Full general David Petraeus (2017), Dr. Robert Chiliad. Gates (2014), and quondam Secretary of Country Madeleine Albright (2010) visited Hattiesburg every bit a part of the eye's Dale Distinguished Lecture Serial. 2018 marked the 13th annual Richard McCarthy Lecture Series, wherein students and the community at large could participate in a broad range of events and programming from panel discussions to roundtables focusing on war and the effects it has on the societies surrounding it.^[50]

The University of Southern Mississippi is governed by the University President along with the Mississippi Board of Trustees of Land Institutions of College Learning.^[51] The President of the Academy of Southern Mississippi is the twenty-four hours-to-day administrator of Southern Miss and is appointed past and responsible to the Country 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 academic reorganization changing the academic structure at the university and the roles of administrators. This program reduced the number of colleges from six to four and consolidated traditional departments into thematic schools.^{[52] [53]}

College of Business and Economic Evolution School of Accountancy School of Finance School of Direction School of Marketing Higher of Educational activity and Human Sciences School of Child and Family Sciences School of Education School of Kinesiology and Nutrition School of Library and Informatics School of Psychology School of Social Work Higher of Nursing and Health Professions Schoolhouse of Health Professions Schoolhouse of Leadership and Advanced Nursing Practice School of Professional Nursing Practise School of Speech and Hearing Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences School of Biological, Environmental, and Globe Sciences Schoolhouse of Communication School of Computing Sciences and Reckoner Engineering Schoolhouse of Construction and Design School of Criminal Justice, Forensic Scientific discipline, and Security Schoolhouse of Humanities Schoolhouse of Interdisciplinary Studies and Professional Development School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Schoolhouse of Music School of Bounding main Science and Engineering School of Performing and Visual Arts School of Polymer Scientific discipline and Engineering Schoolhouse of Social Scientific discipline and Global Studies

In add-on to its academic colleges, The University of Southern Mississippi also offers the post-obit programs:

• George R. Olliphant Honors College^[54]
• Graduate Studies^[55]
• International Studies Plan^[56]
• Fully Online Programs in Sport Management (Thousand.S.) and Sport Coaching Education (G.S.)^[57]
• DuBard Schoolhouse for Linguistic communication 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 summertime session. There are two four-calendar week accelerated summer terms.

In Fall 2006, The University of Southern Mississippi defended a 4-story, multimillion-dollar addition to its R.C. Cook University Union. The Thad Cochran Center now houses a 2-story Barnes & Noble Bookstore, three ballrooms, a stadium-style theater, student organization offices, and Southern Miss Dining and Fresh Food Company. Several meeting rooms are within the matrimony complex. The Union and Programs team hosts more a m events each year.

In Autumn 2010, the University of Southern Mississippi opened Century Park (now known as Century Park North), a gated living customs with four residence halls and a multi-purpose building containing a convenience store. In the 2014–2015 school year, the university opened Century Park South, another gated living community with three residence halls and the campus's new student health center.

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

The university has 26 Greek organizations on campus, including 14 fraternities and 12 sororities. There are 19 fraternity and sorority houses.^[59]

Dining Services [edit]

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

Eagle Dining operates the following dining locations:

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

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

• Century Park Northward Learning Center
• Liberal Arts Building
• Scianna Hall
• Thad Cochran Center 1st Flooring, outside of The Fresh Nutrient Company

Residential Housing [edit]

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

Century Park South dormitories

Restored, second-growth longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) savannah at USM'due south Lake Thoreau Ecology Heart, located forth the track-to-trails Longleaf Trace which passes behind the Century Park dormitories

Residence halls:

• Wilber Hall – houses males and females on separate floors; offers unmarried and double rooms; communal bathrooms on each flooring
• Hattiesburg Hall – houses females; offers single rooms; shared bathroom betwixt 3 rooms
• Mississippi Hall – houses males; offers unmarried rooms; also houses Residence Hall Association (RHA) in basement; shared bath between iii rooms
• Hillcrest Hall – houses females; offers single and double rooms; shared bathroom between ii rooms
• Scholarship Hall – houses females; individual ensuite bathrooms
• McCarty Hall
  • Individual ensuite bathrooms
  • McCarty Hall Northward
  • McCarty Hall South
• Century Park N
  • Private ensuite bathrooms
  • Building ane
  • Building 2
  • Building 3
  • Building iv
• Century Park Due south
  • Private ensuite bathrooms in Vann and Scott Halls, individual 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 separate floors, also houses Moffitt Health Center on its First Floor

Closed residence halls:

• Pulley Hall
• Roberts Hall

Greek Life Housing:

• The Village, a customs-way living area that houses the current National Panhellenic Briefing sororities and the National Pan-Hellenic Council sororities, likewise as Upperclass Scholarship, Nursing, and Athletic women.
• Fraternity Row
  • Home to 8 fraternity houses

Apartments:

• Cedarbrook Apartments, located on the due west side of campus, offering i bedroom units with in-unit laundry

Repurposed Residence Halls:

• Bond Hall – home to University Law, Educatee Counseling Services, Part of the Controller, Office of Research Accommodations, and Office of Disability Accommodations
• Hickman Hall – home to Department of Housing and Residence Life
• Jones Hall – dwelling house to Academy Communications, USM Foundation, and a Call Centre
• Bolton Hall – domicile to Seymour'due south Career Closet (relocated to Bolton Hall in 2021)
• Forrest County Hall – home to Business Services Office

Publications and media [edit]

• Southern Miss At present is the official news source of the University Communications Part.^[60]
• The Student Printz is the university's student-run paper, published twice weekly during the fall and spring semesters.
• The Southerner is the university's total-color yearbook publication. The Southerner was discontinued in 2015.
• WUSM FM 88.5 is the 3000-watt Southern Miss public radio FM station, located on the first flooring of Southern Hall.
• Mississippi Review ^{[61] [62]} is a quarterly published journal that features fiction, poetry, and essays. Gordon Weaver founded it in 1970.^[63] Frederick Barthelme became editor in 1977.^[64] In 1995, information technology was the get-go big literary magazine to launch a fully online issue.^{[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 Gold Eagles are given a copy of The Drawl in their first week of school.
• The Talon is a quarterly magazine for alumni and friends of the academy.^[67]

Mardi Gras holiday [edit]

Mardi Gras parade on Hardy Street

The University of Southern Mississippi is i of the few universities to allow a ii-day holiday each year for Mardi Gras. The university does non hold classes on the Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, many USM students expressed a desire for the vacation. The university is near New Orleans and has ties to Biloxi and Mobile, where Mardi Gras is also historic. In 1981, Ken Stribling, president of USM's student body, organized a student bulldoze to plant an annual vacation on Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras). The university's Calendar Committee refused the asking, but Stribling appealed to USM President Aubrey Lucas. At an annual Christmas celebration at USM in December 1981, Lucas announced that USM would try the holiday on Fat Tuesday in 1982 to meet how it worked. Stribling appealed again in 1982, and Lucas allowed the vacation for Fat Tuesday in 1983. The next year, the holiday for Fat Tuesday was made a permanent part of the university's calendar.

The university's student regime in 2003 gained addition of the Monday earlier Ash Wednesday every bit part of the Mardi Gras Holiday, creating a 2-day vacation for the event and a four-day weekend for students. While many USM students attend Mardi Gras celebrations, the majority of students use the iv-day weekend to prepare for mid-term exams or visit family and friends. The novelty of Mardi Gras Holiday has become a recruiting tool.^[68]

Athletics [edit]

The Gold Eagles take excelled in all areas of athletics. Southern Miss has captured national titles twice in football game and three times in track and field. In 2011, the Gilded Hawkeye football game squad finished every bit the No. 19 team in the Associated Press (AP) College Poll. The Aureate Eagle football game team has also competed in xx-four bowl games throughout the course of the program'due south history. Information technology is important to note that twelve of these bowl games have resulted in a victory for the Golden Eagles.^[69] On November 13, 1982, the Gold Eagle football game team upset Alabama'due south Carmine Tide in famed coach Carry Bryant'southward final habitation game in Tuscaloosa.^[70] M.M. Roberts Stadium is the home of the Golden Hawkeye football game squad and can hold up to 36,000 fans.^[71] The Gilded Eagle baseball team are two-fourth dimension Conference U.s.a. champions and have been invited to twelve regional NCAA tournaments and as well a trip to the College World Serial. The Gold Hawkeye baseball team has the No. 3 recruiting grade in the land past Baseball America. The Southern Miss basketball game team is a one-time champion of the NIT tournament.

Fine arts [edit]

The University of Southern Mississippi is the just institution within the land, and 1 of a dozen universities in America, to be accredited in all four fine arts emphasis areas: art, trip the light fantastic toe, 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 as singers Renee Fleming and Ray Charles, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, violinist Joshua Bell, flautist James Galway, clarinetist Anthony McGill, trumpet role player Doc Severinsen, and tenor Plácido Domingo. The Southern Chorale has become nationally and internationally recognized. They recently performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City and performed at diverse concerts in Norway and Sweden. The Southern Miss Pride of Mississippi Marching Ring has performed at such events every bit the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter and Macy's Thanksgiving Mean solar day Parade in New York in November 2010. The Department of Theatre and Dance has been agile in the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival at times recently placing first in various areas of the national competition. Several productions from USM have been selected for performance at the Region 4 (Southeast) festival; ii productions (Catfish Moon & The Rimers of Eldritch) accept been invited to the national KC/ACTF festival at the Kennedy Heart in Washington, D.C..

Notable alumni and kinesthesia [edit]

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  Mike 50. Edmonds, 14th President of Colorado College^[73]

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External links [edit]

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