The Town & Tower Club presented annual awards for outstanding service at its holiday luncheon held on Thursday. This year’s recipients were Dr. Clear Moore, Student Success Center director at Mississippi University for Women (Campus Service Award); Trip Hairston, president of the Lowndes County Board of Supervisors (Community Service Award),…
Dr. Melissa Smith, professor of communication, Gibbons Chair of Journalism and director of the Kossen Center for Teaching and Learning at Mississippi University for Women, added a fourth book to her publication history with the release of “Political Marketing on Social and Mobile Media: Remaking the Paradigm?” earlier in the…
Mississippi University for Women has awarded Dr. Bonnie Oppenheimer the title of professor emeritus of mathematics. Oppenheimer boasts a career in education spanning nearly 40 years. Dr. Scott Tollison, provost and executive vice president for academic affairs and Dr. Bonnie Oppenheimer “Dr. Oppenheimer’s impact on not only the Department of…
Serves as look at The W’s past, present, future Written by Emma Caroline Brown. Brown is a senior from Columbus and currently serves as the editor-in-chief for The Spectator. November 2025 marked The Spectator’s 120th year of being active at Mississippi University for Women — a milestone not many college…
Ken Burns. Amy Berg. Werner Herzog. Students at Mississippi University for Women have the opportunity to study these and many other documentarians, and follow in their footsteps, with the new documentary studies concentration and minor, both of which launched this fall. Emma Brown, senior communication major at The W, is…
Located in historic Columbus, Mississippi, The W was founded in 1884 as the first state-supported college for women in the United States. Today, the university is home to 2,371 students in more than 70 majors and concentrations and has educated men for 40 years. The university is nationally recognized for low student debt, community and social mobility which empowers students to BE BOLD.
Be Bold.
