Message from Chancellor Khayat
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— Chancellor Robert C. Khayat |
What is Ole Miss First?
Ole Miss First is a university-wide initiative, implemented by Chancellor Robert Khayat, that addresses the most critical need of the 21st century—scholarships. Each Ole Miss First scholarship is based on a pledge of $5,000 per year for five years, for a total of $25,000, to cover eight semesters of tuition for an undergraduate student. Scholarship endowments can also be created at the $100,000 level and will be awarded in perpetuity. Ole Miss First scholarships are unique in that each scholar is assigned a mentor during his or her tenure at Ole Miss.
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Why Give to Ole Miss First
Your gift to Ole Miss First helps the university achieve its goal of providing a scholarship for every deserving student, and it ensures that Ole Miss continues to build on its reputation as a great university. That capacity to recruit and retain the brightest students only exists because of private support from alumni and friends like you.
We believe that making sure these scholars are educated at Ole Miss is the most effective means of helping them reach their potential and becoming contributing citizens who potentially will remain in the state of Mississippi.
These bright, gifted students are our future—they are the people essential to Mississippi’s energy and success. We want these young people to choose Mississippi, to step up as the next generation of leaders, to support a better economy, to participate in the political process, to raise their families and to make Mississippi stronger and more viable.
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