Mississippi Colleges and Universities

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Timeline

1818 - Elizabeth Female Academy is founded in Washington (Mississippi), the first girls' school chartered by the state and one of America's first women's colleges. John James Audubon taught drawing there in May and June of 1822. The school closed in 1845.

1826 - Mississippi College, at that time Hampstead Academy, is established. The second-oldest Baptist-affiliated college in the United States and the oldest college in Mississippi.

1848 - The University of Mississippi (colloquially known as Ole Miss) is a public research university in Oxford, Mississippi. Including the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, it is the state's largest university by enrollment and promotes itself as the state’s flagship university. The university was chartered by the Mississippi Legislature on February 24, 1844.^[1]

1866 - Rust College is one of the oldest colleges for African Americans in the United States, Rust was founded on November 24, 1866 by Northern missionaries with a group called the Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Originally formed as Shaw University in 1870, in 1882, the school changed its name to Rust University—a tribute to Rev. Richard S. Rust of Cincinnati, Ohio, the secretary of the Freedman's Aid Society.

1869- Tougaloo College, a private, coeducational, historically black, liberal arts institution of higher education founded in 1869, in Madison County, north of Jackson, Mississippi. It was originally established by New York–based Christian missionaries for the education of freed slaves and their offspring. Today, more than 40% of Mississippi's practicing African-American physicians, dentists, other health professionals, and attorneys are graduates of Tougaloo College. Over 35% of the State's teachers and administrators at the elementary and secondary levels are graduates of this college.

1871 - Alcorn University, a historically black comprehensive land-grant institution, now Alcorn State University, is organized. Students at this college were part of the mid-twentieth century civil rights struggle, working to register Mississippians for voting.

Jackson College, a private college for blacks was founded in 1877 in Natchez, Mississippi as Natchez Seminary by the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York, the Society moved the school to Jackson in 1882, renaming it Jackson College.Today it is known as Jackson State University . The university is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and 14 other accreditation granting institutions to offer bachelor's, master's, doctoral, and education specialist degrees.

1873 - Blue Mountain College is a private liberal arts college, supported by the Mississippi Baptist Convention. It was founded in 1873 by Confederate General Mark Perrin Lowrey, a pastor, as a women's college. It remained focused on women's education until 1956 when a program to train men for church-related vocations was started. In October 2005, the college's Board of Trustees voted to make the school co-educational.

1878 - Agricultural and Technical School is established. In 1935, it becomes Mississippi State College and in 1958, Mississippi State University. It is classified as a "comprehensive doctoral research university with very high research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation. The university has campuses in Starkville (main), Meridian, Biloxi, and Vicksburg, Mississippi.

1884 - The Industrial Institute and College, today's Mississippi University for Women, is established.(Men have been offered admission to MUW since 1982.) The University offers academic programs in more than 50 areas of study.

1890- Millsaps College is a private liberal arts college located in Jackson. It was founded in 1890 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The college was founded in 1889–90 by a Confederate veteran, Major Reuben Webster Millsaps.The curriculum is secular. The writing-intensive core curriculum requires each student to compile an acceptable portfolio of written work before completion of the sophomore year. Millsaps becomes the first all-white college in Mississippi to voluntarily desegregate in 1965.

1892- William Carey University was founded by W. I. Thames in 1892 as Pearl River Boarding School in Poplarville, Mississippi. After a fire Thames re-opened the school in Hattiesburg as South Mississippi College.The university offers baccalaureate degrees in the areas of arts and letters, education, natural and behavioral sciences, business, religion, music, and nursing and is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention and the Mississippi Baptist Convention. Named in honor of William Carey, the eighteenth century English cobbler-linguist whose decades of missionary activity in India earned him international recognition as the “Father of Modern Missions.”

1896- Belhaven University originally "Belhaven College for Young Ladies", is a private Christian liberal arts university located in Jackson, Mississippi. Founded by Dr. Lewis Fitzhugh and later donated to the Presbyterian Church in the United States

1909 - Dr. Laurence C. Jones founds the Piney Woods Country Life School for the vocational and secondary education of black students. It is one of four remaining historically African-American boarding schools in the United States and currently the largest African-American boarding school.

1910 - Mississippi Normal College, now the University of Southern Mississippi, is organized. The university is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a "Research University" with "High Research Activity". The school hs campuses in Hattiesburg and Long Beach Mississippi

1922 - The State Legislature authorizes a system of junior colleges, the first in the nation.

1924 - Delta State Teachers' College, now Delta State University, is established as a public institution by the State of Mississippi, using the facilities of the former Bolivar County Agricultural High School. On February 19, 1924 it was established as Delta State Teachers College. In 1955, the name Delta State Teachers College was changed to Delta State College. In 1974 the college changed its name to the current Delta State University

1930-Mississippi College School of Law is an American Bar Association accredited law school and is the only law school in Jackson, Mississippi. The law school was founded in 1930 as the Jackson School of Law. In 1975, the law school was acquired by Mississippi College.

1940 -Jackson College, having earlier moved from Natchez to Jackson, becomes a state institution.

1946 - Mississippi Vocational College, now Mississippi Valley State University, is established. Mississippi Valley State University (commonly referred to as MVSU or Valley) is a historically black university located in Leflore County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta, near Itta Bena. in 1974, the institution was renamed Mississippi Valley State University'.

1954 - Brown vs. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's landmark ruling, lays groundwork for desegregation.

1962 -James Meredith, the first black registrant, enters the University of Mississippi - the beginning of the end to segregation in public universities and colleges.

1979 -Mattie T. Consent Decree initiates procedures providing equal education for handicapped children in the states public schools.

1982 -Governor William F. Winter calls a special legislative session, resulting in adoption of the historic Education Reform Act, pioneering nationwide school reform.

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Alcorn State University, Alcorn State/Lorman

Belhaven University, Jackson

Blue Mountain College, Blue Mountain

Delta State University, Cleveland

Jackson State University, Jackson

Millsaps College, Jackson

Mississippi College, Clinton

Mississippi College School of Law, Jackson

Mississippi State University

Meridian campus, Meridian

Mississippi State/Starkville (main campus)

Mississippi University for Women, Columbus

Mississippi Valley State University, Itta Bena

University of Mississippi

Oxford (main campus)

Booneville, Mississippi (northeast campus)

Tupelo campus

Southaven Campus

University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson

Rust College, Holly Springs

Tougaloo College, Tougaloo

The University of Southern Mississippi

Gulf Park campus, Long Beach

Hattiesburg (main campus)

William Carey University, Hattiesburg