Ole Miss Giving Day

The University of Mississippi’s School of Education is a leader in producing teachers, counselors and education trailblazers.

Today, you can invest in scholarships, programming and faculty to help transform students’ lives and school communities. Help us as we advance educational equity and excellence to serve Mississippi and beyond.

Examples of excellence include:

• The sixth cohort of the Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program at Ole Miss consists of 28 outstanding freshman from 11 states with an average high school GPA of 3.88 and ACT score of 29.4. One of the nation’s most valuable teaching scholarships, METP provides up to four years of tuition, housing, living expenses, a study abroad experience and more. Funded by the Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation of Jackson, Mississippi, the program recruits high-performing students to teach in Mississippi schools.
• Education majors at Ole Miss use Mursion, a cutting-edge technology that delivers customized virtual reality training to provide professional challenges that exist in the job every day. Through Mursion, the mistakes Ole Miss students used to make in front of real students can now be made in front of avatars.
• Our Centers of Excellence and Special Initiatives make direct and lasting impacts in the local community, state and nation. We are home to seven distinct programs: The Center for Excellence in Literacy Instruction, Center for Math and Science Education, Mississippi Excellence in Teaching Program, Mississippi Teacher Corps, Mississippi Principal Corps, Willie Price Lab School and the Counselor Education Clinic.

Giving Day is the perfect time to plant a seed and watch it grow! Help the School of Education, as we dream bigger, work harder and give more. This is an all-hands-on-deck effort.

Please make a gift! Thank you!