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September 18, 2025, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Ole Miss Students Gain Global Experience In East Asia, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Several University of Mississippi students spent their summer experiencing everyday life in East Asia as they got real-world experience as interns for companies across the region.

September 4, 2025, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Applied Statistics Course Offerings: Fall 2025, University Of Mississippi. Graduate School

GMAS Course List

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New Faculty Guide, 2025, University Of Mississippi. Provost

New Faculty

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A Conversation Between Octavia Butler's Kindred And Angela Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete?: Brutality, Misogynoir, And Haunting, Sydney Guntharp

Venture: The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Research Journal

Octavia Butler’s Kindred and Angela Davis’s Are Prisons Obsolete? textually parallel one another in vital ways that mirror the lack of linear separation between the socalled historical past and modern conditions of racialized oppression, confinement, and brutal treatment. Through tandemly analyzing these texts, the modes of misogynoiristic control potently exacted on the enslaved/imprisoned Black woman’s body are clearly rendered across time. The presence of the plantation, as it follows Butler’s fictional characters through the literal medium of time travel, haunts the modern prisonindustrial complex, which Davis extrapolates through a detailed history of racialized punishment within the United States. Both texts …

Tenure And Promotion Announcement, 2025, University Of Mississippi. Provost

Tenure and Promotion Announcements

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Afghanistan: An Analysis Of U.S. Foreign Policy’S Effect On Afghan Terrorism Rates, Katelyn E. Tinsley Foust

Honors Theses

While the term ‘terrorism’ was first coined and widely used in the late 1700s regarding the French Reign of Terror, its popularity has grown dramatically around the globe in the last few decades. Advancements in things like technology and news reporting have made these attacks more popular and have given terrorists an easier outlet to be recognized around the world. One such area we hear about often is the Middle East and the Levant. Countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Israel, and more, are routinely discussed in our news cycles here in the United States, especially since the terrorist attacks on …

Jtc 25: Visual Line Of Sight, Christina Steube

University of Mississippi News

This story is part of the 2025 Journey to Commencement series, which celebrates the pinnacle of the academic year by highlighting University of Mississippi students and their outstanding academic and personal journeys from college student to college graduate.

A World Without Prison: The Role Of Policy In Prison Abolition, Kristen Davis

Honors Theses

As concerns about mass incarceration persist, prison abolition offers an innovative approach to safety and justice. The prison abolition movement has been active in the United States since the 1970s. Despite increasingly critical attitudes of the prison system, prison abolition is yet to be accepted in mainstream policy making. Instead, policymakers focus on reform, which problematically legitimizes and reinforces locking people away as criminals. One reason why reform takes precedent may be that prison abolition is often understood in negative terms, as a movement that only advocates ending incarceration. However, its essence is better captured in positive terms, such as …

Spanish Language Accessibility Within Mississippi Courts, Meredith Dudte

Honors Theses

As the Hispanic population continues to rise in Mississippi, Spanish language access in the public sector is of increasing importance. This thesis will specifically explore Spanish language access in Mississippi courts, identifying strengths and weaknesses and recommending policy solutions based on the results. To gain a better understanding of court interpretation in Mississippi, I interviewed ten Spanish language court interpreters and two court clerks either working in Mississippi courts or courts in similar southern states. Responses highlighted two themes as strengths: the federal court interpreter test and compensation, four themes as weaknesses: compensation, standards, omissions, and dialects, and four themes …

May 1, 2025, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Redefining Legal Education: Class Focuses On Leadership Via Service, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – Imagine a law school class where no cases were briefed, no oral arguments made – but instead, empathy was gained and service given through a variety of methods including leadership theory, alternative textbooks, notable guest lecturers and community service.

The Implementation Of Higher Education In The Prison System In Mississippi: The Challenges And Benefits, Elizabeth F. Ratliff

Honors Theses

Growing support for higher education in prison has sparked much conversation regarding the challenges and benefits of the programs and their implementation. In Mississippi, this has become an increasingly prevalent issue as the incarcerated population continues to grow and programs continue to be limited in accessibility. Mississippi’s incarcerated population deserves the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills through higher education to better themselves individually and better their communities upon release. However, Mississippi faces unique challenges in its prison system, preventing the benefits of these programs from showing. The purpose of this study is to gain insight into the challenges and …

God’S Got Me:The Intersection Of Faith And Mental Healing, Bre'anna Coleman

Honors Theses

Due to the lack of healthcare accessibility and other factors within the Mississippi Delta, faith and the church is often utilized within African American communities in the area as a form of mental wellness. The Intersection of Faith and Mental Healing was a photo voice methodology project that highlighted how faith and mental healing intersect and impact African Americans within the Mississippi Delta. Through three prompts, six participants discussed mental health and how faith, location, and their identities shaped their views of mental wellness. Five participants were male with one female participant. Their ages ranged from eighteen to sixty five …

Ole Miss Sophomore Earns Spot In National Leadership Program, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi sophomore Demetrick Stringer is one of 12 students nationwide selected for the 2026 class of The Institute for Responsible Citizenship.

Jtc 25: From The Range To The Doj, Jordan Karnbach

University of Mississippi News

This story is part of the 2025 Journey to Commencement series, which celebrates the pinnacle of the academic year by highlighting University of Mississippi students and their outstanding academic and personal journeys from college student to college graduate.

April 3, 2025, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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State Senate Confirms Um Professor For Prison Industries Board, Jordan Karnbach

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss – The Mississippi Senate has added a University of Mississippi professor to the board of directors of the Mississippi Prison Industries Corp.

Study Explores Aging Inmates And Prison Misconduct, Jordan Karnbach

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss – Research shows that many inmates serving long-term or life sentences continue to cause trouble even behind bars. A University of Mississippi graduate student is looking into what drives those behaviors.

The Association Between Gambling And Academic Performance Among Undergraduate College Students: A Scoping Review Protocol, Hannah K. Allen, Tonya Knight, Becky Hall, Melissa Dennis

Review Protocols

This review seeks to synthesize the current research available and identify gaps in the literature on the association between gambling and academic performance among undergraduate college students. This scoping review will apply a PCC framework (participants/population, construct, context) (Peters et al., 2020) and will have the following primary research question:

1. What is known from the literature about the association between gambling and academic performance among undergraduate college students?

Track 1: Panel Discussion, Leadership, Mentorship, And Sponsorship: Empowering Women In Higher Ed, Natalia Norwood, Tina Martin, Kristin Richards, Ethel Scurlock, Coranette "Chris" Square, Kelly Lester

WHEMN Conference

This panel will illuminate the powerful roles that mentorship and sponsorship play in advancing women in higher education. Participants will hear from seasoned leaders who have successfully navigated these dynamics and discover practical strategies for cultivating supportive relationships.

• Natalia Norwood, ADA Specialist/EORC Investigator, The University of Mississippi — Moderator
• Tina Martin, Dean of the School of Nursing, The University of Mississippi
• Kristin Richards, Associate Professor and Program Chair for Social Work, Jackson State University
• Ethel Scurlock, Dean of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College and Associate Professor of English and African American Studies, The University of Mississippi
• Coranette “Chris” Square, …

February 27, 2025, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Federal Judge Inspires Others To Be Bold And Courageous, Marisa C. Atkinson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves will share his wisdom on public service and the law on Thursday (Feb. 27) at the University of Mississippi School of Law. The free event is set for 4 p.m. in Weems Auditorium.

Program To Boost Safety, Belonging In Rural Mississippi Schools, Clara Turnage

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi researchers are using a $2 million grant from the Department of Justice to promote safety, belonging and academic success in rural Mississippi classrooms.

Applied Statistics Course Offerings: Spring 2025, University Of Mississippi. Graduate School

GMAS Course List

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The Underrepresentation Of African American Male Educators In K-12 Education, Nisa Lewis Johnson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The American education system has struggled with a significant teacher shortage for years. Alongside this shortage is the underrepresentation of African American male teachers. Despite the increasing diversity of the student population, African American men make up less than 2% of teachers nationwide (Aftunion, 2020). This disparity denies all kids access to diverse perspectives in the classroom and limits the presence of role models for students of color. Research studies have shown that African American students who have African American teachers show improvement in their grades, standardized test scores, attendance records, and graduation rates (Breazeale, 2023). This study aimed to …

Public Attitudes Toward The Nigerian Police: An Examination Of Trust Indicators At Micro Levels, Bassey Kooffreh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation comprises three studies that collectively contribute to understanding public trust in the Nigerian police. The first study applies three major policing theories namely performance theory, procedural justice theory, and social capital theory to explain the factors that influence trust in the police. The second study offers a comparative analysis of the predictors of public trust in both the police and the courts. The third study examines how individual quality of life, neighborhood structural characteristics, and civic engagement affect public trust in the police. Using nationally representative data from Afrobarometer Round 9, the first study reveals that citizens who …

The Prison Life-Course And Correctional Misconduct, Zachary Nathanial Buckner

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to apply a developmental and life-course perspective to the understanding of correctional misconduct for those serving long-term sentences by conducting three separate analyses that examine the development of misconduct over time, and the influence of personal and prison characteristics on misconduct. Data were provided by the Department of Corrections in a Northwestern state in the United States and included all adults in custody who were currently incarcerated and had been incarcerated for a minimum of 15 years consecutively at the point of data collection in March 2023. The first analysis used group-based trajectory modeling …

Framed By Education: Labeling, Stigma, And The Behavioral Pathways Of Alternative School Students, Abigail Dempsey

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Alternative education has emerged as a critical part of the education system, addressing the needs of students who face academic, behavioral, or personal challenges. However, concerns persist about their long-term effectiveness and the stigma associated with alternative school placements. This study examines how stigma tied to alternative school placements impacts delinquency outcomes among adolescents, utilizing labeling theory as a conceptual framework. Drawing on longitudinal data from the Pathways to Desistance dataset, this research explores the relationships between school placement, self-perception of success, and delinquent behaviors. It also serves to investigate whether labeling of an alternative school placement creates a self-fulfilling …