MISSISSIPPI UNIVERSITY FOR WOMEN
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'Mississippi University for Women', also known as 'MUW' or simply 'the "W"' is a four-year coeducational public university located in Columbus, Mississippi. It was formerly known as 'Industrial Institute and College' ('II&C') and later 'Mississippi State College for Women' ('MSCW'). Men have been offered admission to MUW since 1982.
History and mission
Upon its establishment in 1884, Mississippi University for Women became the first public women's college in the United States. Then known as the Industrial Institute and College, the institution was created by an act of the Mississippi Legislature on March 12, 1884, for the dual purposes of providing a liberal arts education for women and preparing them for employment. The first session began October 22, 1885, with an enrollment of approximately 250 students on a campus formerly occupied by the Columbus Female Institute, a private college founded in 1847.
The name of the institution changed to Mississippi State College for Women in 1920 to reflect an emphasis on collegiate, rather than vocational, education. The name changed again in 1974 to Mississippi University for Women to better reflect the nature of the academic programs, including graduate studies. All other Mississippi state colleges were also designated universities at this time.
In 1982, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case of ''Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan'' that the nursing school's single-sex admissions policies were in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Following this decision, the Board of Trustees of State Institutions of Higher Learning ordered the university to change its policies to allow the admission of qualified males into all university programs. In 1988, the Board of Trustees reaffirmed the mission of MUW as an institution providing quality academic programs for all qualified students, with emphasis on distinctive opportunities for women.
Academics
The University offers academic programs in more than 50 areas of study [1].
In 2006 MUW awarded 481 undergraduate degrees. The following were the top ten degrees awarded and the percentage of the graduates that came from that program[2]:
★ Nursing 16%
★ Elementary Education 10%
★ Psychology 6%
★ Business Administration and Management 5%
★ Visual and Performing Arts 5%
★ Family Systems 4%
★ Accounting 4%
★ Paralegal 3%
★ Social Sciences 3%
★ English 3%
The remaining degrees awarded were in the following subjects: Art Education, Biology, Chemistry, Communication, Culinary Arts, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Studio Arts, Theatre, History, Health & Kinesiology, Exercise Science, Sport Management, Mathematics, Microbiology, Music, Physical Science, Political Science, Spanish, Speech-Language Pathology /Audiology and Pre-professional degrees. MUW offers Pre-Professional degrees in Pre-Dentistry, Pre-Engineering, Pre-Law, Pre-Medical Technology, Pre-Medicine, Pre-Occupational Therapy, Pre-Pharmacy, Pre-Physical Therapy, and Pre-Veterinary.
In 2006 MUW awarded 81 Master's degrees from its eight different graduate programs. The following are the percentages of graduates that came from each program[2]:
★ Master of Science in Nursing 43%
★ Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology 17%
★ Master of Education in Reading/Literacy 17%
★ Master of Science in Health education 12%
★ Master of Education in Differentiated Instruction 4%
★ Master of Education in Gifted Studies 4%
★ Master of Arts in Teaching 2%
Campus Demographics
[4][5]
Students
Total Enrollment: 2428
★ Total Undergraduate Enrollment: 2280
★ Total Graduate Enrollment: 148
Freshman: 587
Sophomores: 353
Juniors: 487
Seniors: 834
Graduate Students: 148
Faculty
Average Faculty Salary: $46,184
Student to Faculty Ratio: 12 to 1
Total Faculty: 207
★ Administrative: 9
★ Part-Time Faculty: 132
★ Full-Time Faculty: 66
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★ Male Full-Time Faculty: 49
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★ Female Full-Time Faculty: 83
Faculty Rank
★ Professor: 30
★ Associate Professor: 16
★ Assistant Professor: 35
★ Instructor: 51
Student Demographics 2006-2007
Average Age of Students: 25
Female: 85%
Male: 15%
Full-time: 83%
Part-time 17%
White: 64%
Black: 32%
Other: 4%
Mississippi Resident: 91.56%
Other United State Resident: 7.66%
International: 0.78%
Freshman Admissions
Number of freshman applicants: 1381
Number of freshman admitted: 683
ACT minimum score: 16
ACT mean score: 21.5
Colleges and Schools
Business
MUW’s College of Business is accredited by the Association of Collegiate Business Schools and Programs.[6] Business majors in the 2006-2007 school year represented 8% of the total MUW student body[7]
The MUW College of Business offers degrees in the following areas[8]:
★ Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Accounting
★ Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A.) with concentrations in
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★ General Business
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★ Management
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★ Management and Information Systems
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★ Marketing
Education and Human Sciences
The MUW College of Education and Human Sciences is divided into three departments, the Department of Education, the Department of Psychology and Family Studies, and the Department of Health & Kinesiology. [9]
Education
The MUW Department of Education offers undergraduate degrees in the following areas[10]
★ Mathematics
★ Music Education
★ Science: Biology
★ Science: Physical Science
★ Spanish
The MUW Department of Education offers graduate degrees in the following areas[11]:
★ Master of Education in Gifted Studies
★ Master of Education in Differentiated Instruction
★ Master of Education in Reading/Literacy
★ Master of Arts in Teaching
Psychology and Family Studies
The Department of Psychology and Family Studies offers undergraduate degrees in each of the following areas[12]:
★ Psychology
★ Family Studies
Health and Kinesiology
The MUW department of Health and Kinesiology offers undergraduate degrees in the following areas[13]:
★ Health and physical education K-12
★ Exercise Science
★ Pre-physical therapy
★ Pre-occupational therapy
The MUW Department of health and Kinesiology offers a graduate degree in[14]:
★ Masters of science in health education
Nursing and Speech Language Pathology
The MUW College of Nursing and Speech Language Pathology offers degrees in the following areas[15][16]:
★ Associate of Science in Nursing
★ Bachelor of Science in Nursing
★ Bachelor of Science in Speech-Language Pathology/Audiology
★ Master of Science in Nursing
★ Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology
Arts and Sciences
The MUW College of Arts and Sciences is divided into six departments; those departments are Sciences and mathematics, Music and theater, Art and design, Languages, literature, and philosophy, Communication, and History, political science, geography, and paralegal.
Sciences and mathematics
The MUW Department of Sciences and Mathematics offers undergraduate degrees in the following areas[17]:
★ Biology
★ Biology with Teacher Certification
★ Microbiology
★ Mathematics
★ Mathematics with Teacher Certification
★ Pre-Engineering
★ Chemistry
★ Physical Science with Teacher Certification
Music and Theater
The MUW Department of Music and Theater offers undergraduate degrees in the following areas[18]:
★ Fine Arts with a Theatre Emphasis
★ Bachelor of Arts in Music
★ Bachelor of Music in Music education
★ Music therapy
Art and Design
The MUW Department of Art and design offers undergraduate degrees in the following areas[19]:
★ Art
★ Bachelor of Fine Arts
★ Art Education
★ Fine Arts with emphasis in Graphic Design, Interior Design or Studio Art
Communication
The MUW Department of Communication offers both Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in communication[20].
Language, literature, and philosophy
The MUW Department of language, literature, and philosophy offers undergraduate degrees in the following areas [21]:
★ English
★ Creative Writing
★ Spanish
★ English Education
★ Spanish Education
★ French Education
History, Political Science, Geography, and Paralegal
The MUW Department of history, political science, geography, and paralegal offers undergraduate degrees in the following areas[22]:
★ History
★ Paralegal Studies
★ Social Science
★ Political Science
★ History and Social Science Education
★ Pre-law
Culinary Arts Institute
The MUW Culinary Arts Institute offers a Bachelors of Science in Culinary Arts and a minor in Culinary Arts. Students in the Bachelors program can emphasize their degrees in the following areas:
★ Entrepreneurship
★ Food Journalism
★ Food Art
★ Nutrition/Wellness
Alumni
Alumni of MUW are known collectively as "The Long Blue Line" and are known for their loyalty to their school.
Notable MUW alumni include:
★ Dorothy Vredenburgh Bush, secretary of the Democratic National Committee (1944-1989) and the youngest person and first woman to be elected as an officer of either the Democratic or Republican party[23]
★ Cheryl Coopper, prize winning marketer and mother to Cyrus Cooper.
★ Denise Dillard, award-winning playwright[24]
★ Elizabeth Lee Hazen, co-discoverer of nystatin[25]
★ Valerie Jaudon, award-winning artist[26]
★ Evelyn McPhail, co-chair of Republican National Committee (1994-1997)[27]
★ Lenore Prather, first female Mississippi Supreme Court justice[28]
★ Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
★ Blanche Colton Williams, author and first editor of the O. Henry Prize Stories
Currently, there is tension between MUW's administration and its alumni.[29] [30] The announcement of the University's decision to disaffiliate from the 117-year-old MUW Alumnae Association[31] called public attention to the conflicts; however, the decisions to end the University's athletic program[32], consider changing the name of the university[33], and dismiss the Alumni Association's director and assistant director[34] have also contributed to the current relationship problems.
There are some questions as to how the president can dismiss the director and assistant director of the alumnae association as they were not appointed by her. Some students feel that reprimands to the university's president, Claudia Limbert, are in order for her diassociation of the century old alumnae group. Debates are currently raging over a university president's authority to appoint a new alumnae association, as well as appoint the officers of the new group. In the previous organization, the officers of the association were democratically appointed by the members of the association. With their large monetary donations which account for a large portion of the university's budget, the alumnae are upset over the questionable authority underwhich Limbert diassociated the insitution and self appointed a new association and corresponding officers.
See also
★ List of current and historical women's universities and colleges in the United States
★ Timeline of women's colleges in the United States
★ Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science
★ Women's colleges in the United States
References
External links
★ Mississippi University for Women
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