Ole Miss News
UM academic, social support center continues leading with yearlong reflection
The official story of women at Ole Miss goes all the way back to the 1880s with the admission of the first 11 female students in 1882 – making it one of the first Southern universities to do so. This was followed three years later by the hiring of Sarah McGehee Isom, the university’s first female faculty member and the first female faculty member at a coeducational institution of higher learning in the Southeast.
But decades later, the university’s position on women had gone from progressive to outdated, still employing a dean of women to monitor the curfews and clothing of female students.
Florida State University News
Faculty and Staff Briefs: January 2021
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HONORS AND AWARDS
Gregory J. Harris, Ph.D. (College of Human Sciences) and
Earl Levison (Student Affairs) were recently selected as recipients of the 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Distinguished Service Award presented by the FSU Division of Student Affairs and the Center for Leadership and Social Change. The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Service Award was established in 1986 to honor a faculty member, administrator or staff member for their outstanding service in keeping with the principles and ideals of Dr. King. The honor also comes with a $1,000 stipend.
WE ARE HONORED to present to you the very first
Massachusetts Review issue focused on Native American writing. We are thankful to Associate Editor N. C. Christopher Couch and the rest of the MR team for dreaming up this issue and for asking us to be guest editors, and we are especially thankful to the writers and artists whose work we’ve chosen for this special issue. Their words and images are a gift.
This issue, as it was first imagined, was set to coincide with and push back against Massachusetts’s planned celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the