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At Millsaps, creating a welcoming, supportive and personalized experience for prospective students and their families is at the heart of the admissions process. As part of strengthening that experience, the college has promoted Geneva Torrence to...
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The region’s winter storm warning has transitioned to a winter weather advisory in effect until 3:00 p.m. today. However, campus remains severely impacted by the city’s low water pressure. The college’s...
The college’s emergency management team continues to monitor the weather as the National Weather Service has extended the area’s winter storm warning through Thursday, February 18 at 6:00 a.m. Outdoor...
Updated February 16, 2021 Dear students, faculty and staff: The college’s emergency management team continues to monitor the weather as a hard freeze warning remains in effect for our area until noon on...
Ask Rhone Meche about Millsaps College, and he’ll tell you that from start to finish, it’s all been about opportunities. “I was originally attracted to Millsaps because I saw an opportunity to play college...
Join us on Thursday, February 11, 2021 for Millsaps College’s fourth annual day of giving in support of the Annual Fund. Alumni, parents, friends, students, faculty and staff will come together to celebrate...
After graduating from high school in Ridgeland, Mississippi, a suburb just north of Jackson, Sam Saia was extremely hesitant about attending college so close to home. In time, though, he built relationships...
At the end of each fall and spring semester, the College recognizes outstanding achievement by students by naming them to the President’s Scholars and Dean’s Scholars list. Following are the students who have...
In the fall of her senior year at Millsaps College, Sophie Lipman was applying to law school and shared her list of schools with Kenneth Townsend, one of her professors. After reviewing the list, Townsend...
An alarming number of Mississippi voters, nearly 50%, say they may refuse to receive the COVID-19 vaccine or are unsure if they will get it when it becomes available to them, and just over half report they...
An honest conversation with Aaron Pelch, then head football coach and now athletic director at Millsaps College, helped direct Caleb Martin on his path through college and law school. “During my sophomore...
Lacee Winfield’s career aspiration is built around policy and philanthropy. A senior from Memphis, Tennessee, following graduation Winfield hopes to oversee programming in a foundation or lead research for a...
Candace Mckenzie views The Purple & White as more than a campus media outlet. “A student newspaper is a reflection of our shared similarities and differences as a campus body, and it not only allows us to...
These words were shared with the Millsaps College Board of Trustees in the October 23, 2020 homily by The Rev. Dr. Joey Shelton, dean of the chapel and director of church relations at Millsaps. In his...
With cleaning supplies at every entrance, educational signage plastered throughout each building and the establishment of a dedicated quarantine and isolation residence hall, the Millsaps College campus...
The 2020 Distinguished Professor Award at Millsaps College has been awarded to Dr. Blakely Fox Fender, professor of economics and J. Armistead Brown Chair of Business Administration in the Else School of...
Millsaps College has been honored as a recipient with the Halbrook Award in their Independent College and University Division. According to a release from Mississippi Public Universities, the award recognize...
Cord Campbell, Monty Hamilton, David Loper and The Rev. Cary Stockett are the newest members of the Millsaps College Board of Trustees. They completed their orientation and were formally welcomed during the...
After Marissa Brown toured what she refers to as “the most mesmerizing campus in Mississippi,” she left with a promise of a work study job from then head football coach Aaron Pelch and thoughts of a career in...
Completing a bachelor’s degree at Millsaps College will be easier for students who transfer in from community colleges in Mississippi, thanks to a $100,000 gift from the Woodward Hines Education Foundation...
It was love at first sight for Onyx Magno. “I visited Millsaps on a track and field visit, and fell in love with the atmosphere,” said Magno. Now, working as a Presidential Ambassador in the admission office,...
