Ole Miss News
Lyt Harris, a 1962 graduate of the UM School of Business Administration, provides mentoring, as well as a scholarship, for Ole Miss business students. The school is housed in Holman Hall. Photo by Kevin Bain/Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services
OXFORD, Miss. – Besides financial support, the Lyttleton T. Harris IV Endowed Scholarship at the University of Mississippi is providing mentoring from a marketing master for its recipient.
In February, Lyt Harris, of Houston, Texas, added $100,000 to the scholarship endowment he established in 2016. In addition to this and previous gifts to his endowment, Harris made an estimated $2.5 million planned gift in 2019 to support the scholarship after his lifetime.
Management Professor Selected for Distinguished Early Career Award
January 29, 2021
UM School of Business Administration
Kristin Cullen-Lester, assistant professor of management at the University of Mississippi School of Business Administration, has been selected to receive the 2021 Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award-Practice from the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Cullen-Lester will give an invited presentation at the 2021 annual conference, set for April 14-17 in New Orleans. She will present, with winners of several other awards, in a “Best Practice and Application” session.
Kristin Cullen-Lester, UM assistant professor of management, will receive the 2021 Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award–Practice from the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology at its annual conference. Submitted photo
Online MBA Program Ranks Among Top 10 in Nation
January 26, 2021
UM School of Business Administration
The University of Mississippi‘s online Master of Business Administration program has been named as one of the best in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. The rankings, released today, place Ole Miss in a five-way tie for No. 7 among public universities and No. 10 overall.
UM is tied with the universities of Arizona, Maryland and Washington and the University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium for the No. 7 spot. The University of Florida, at No. 3 among public universities, and Auburn University, at No. 15, were the only other Southeastern Conference schools included in the top 25 of the 2021 rankings.