Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Chief Cyrus Ben gave the keynote address at Mississippi State University’s Native American/American Indian History Month earlier this month.
Mississippi’s public universities saw an increase in fall enrollment in 2023 compared to numbers from the same period last year. Fall enrollment for 2023 is 77,074 students, a 1.8 percent increase, partially due to record-breaking freshman classes at Ole Miss and Mississippi State. In 2022, enrollment stood at 75,739 for.