We are thrilled to spotlight Tyler Hays, a dedicated alumnus of Millsaps College, who graduated in 2020 with a major in business administration and a concentration in finance. Tyler’s Millsaps journey began in 2016, inspired by an early interest in...
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Discovering His Passion
The impact of Millsaps College on Carson Marshall is evident. Following his transfer to Millsaps from Occidental College in Los Angeles in 2019, Marshall describes his most impactful moment as the discovery...
Windgate Foundation Awards $2.1 Million to Millsaps College
The opportunity for students to receive a life-changing education at Millsaps College will be possible for years to come, thanks to a more than $2.1 million gift for scholarships and art equipment from the...
Millsaps College Ranked Among Best Colleges for 2022 by U.S. News
Millsaps College is on the list of the best liberal arts colleges in the country, according to the newly released rankings from U.S. News. Millsaps ranks #114 out of 223 schools that made the list, and also...
Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus Center Receives Grant for New Public Programming
The Mississippi Humanities Council has awarded a $15,000 grant to the Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Center at Millsaps College to support a new series of digital and public...
Millsaps College Featured in The Princeton Review’s “Best 387 Colleges” for 2022
Millsaps College is one of the best institutions of higher learning for undergraduates according to the 2022 edition of "The Best 387 Colleges" guide published by The Princeton Review. It is the only private...
Doing the Job No One Had Ever Done Before
The shift from bartender in New York to a cultural icon wasn’t all that glamorous. “One night, I’m mixing a daiquiri at a cabaret show and a guy sitting there starts wagging his finger at me,” Alan Hunter...
Millsaps College Breaks Ground on Phase 1 of Baseball Facility Enhancements
Work is officially underway on the first phase of a three-stage upgrade to baseball facilities at Millsaps College. Donors and trustees of the college gathered on August 23 with college officials and head...
Welcome to the Class of 2025!
Campus was buzzing all day on Friday, August 20 as members of the class of 2025 moved into residence halls and settled in for the start of the semester. Foundations leaders, presidential ambassadors,...
Plan to Strengthen Study of Humanities Earns Support from The Teagle Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities
“The humanities are essential for the health of American civic life,” affirms the Teagle Foundation in its description of a new program, Cornerstone: Learning for Living, intended to foster student...
Millsaps College Students Named 2021 Key into Public Service Scholars
Millsaps College rising seniors Khaylah Scott and Nazm Rahat are two of just 20 students selected as a Key into Public Service Scholar by The Phi Beta Kappa Society, the nation’s most prestigious academic...
Millsaps College/Chism Strategies State of the State Survey: Voters Favor Medicinal and Recreational Marijuana Legalization, Medicaid Expansion
A majority of Mississippi voters—over 63%—want the legislature to enact a medical marijuana law that mirrors the one passed by voters last November but was nullified by the State Supreme Court’s recent ruling...
Millsaps College Class of 2025 Is Coming in Strong
By all accounts, the past year has been a tough one and people are looking for good news. At Millsaps College, good news is coming to campus in the form of one of the largest incoming classes of first-year...
Millsaps College Announces President’s Scholars and Dean’s Scholars for Spring 2021
At the end of each fall and spring semester, Millsaps College recognizes outstanding achievement by students by naming them to the President’s Scholars and Dean’s Scholars list. “These students have...
Harvey Fiser Named Interim Dean of Else School of Management
Millsaps College has announced that Harvey Fiser has been appointed interim dean of the Else School of Management. Fiser completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from Mississippi State...
Megan James Tapped as New Dean of Students at Millsaps College
Millsaps College is pleased to announce that Megan James, currently serving as alumni engagement associate at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) and international fraternity president of...
Hardin Foundation Grant Supports Development of Pathways Program
Millsaps College has always been a place where preparing students for the workforce and commitment to the hallmarks of a liberal arts education are not mutually exclusive, but rather mutually reinforcing,...
Millsaps Women’s Tennis Claims First SAA Tournament Title
Majors Made History by Downing Centre, 5-1 in the championship on Sunday. The Millsaps women's tennis team made history on Sunday by claiming its first Southern Athletic Association (SAA) Tournament title....
Legislative Fellowship Program Marks Fifth Year
Since 2016, Millsaps students have been helping shape policy in the halls of the Mississippi Capitol. Each spring, four students are awarded Legislative Fellowships through the Women’s Foundation of...
2021 Honors Conference Offers Broad Range of Research
Interpreting translated language in choral music. Introspective writing on issues of personal health. Issues of ongoing poverty in urban environments. Finding structure in the world around us. These were some...
Jim and Mary Sharp Rayner: Committed to Millsaps, Committed to Mississippi
Jim and Mary Sharp Rayner are no strangers to hard work. Jim (’62) sold everything from books to cookware to put himself through medical school. Mary Sharp earned her degree in education from the University...