Be careful, dex. You might get the Jesse's Girl treatment if you suggest that teaching is a good thing.

I didn't read Jesse's Girl's post as "let's become Alcorn State." I read it as "let's focus on what we could become the best in MS at." Ole Miss and MSU will not fight us for the title of best public instruction, and one major step toward that end would be to eliminate a lot of this online garbage. Then we could make similar claims to those of MC.

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Originally posted by: dex
"There is a radio ad being run by MC --- "real professors in real classrooms..."

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MC's radio spot is 100% accurate: "Real professors in real classrooms" (as contrasted with a plethora of faddish and impersonal distance learning activities). The MC students who are exposed to those "real professors in real classrooms" do quite well upon graduation. The facts show that, since 1920, Mississippi College ranks #1 in the nation in graduates receiving doctoral degrees in professional fields among 910 non-doctoral granting institutions. Some of MC's graduates who went on to receive doctorates were, until fairly recently, on the faculty at USM (e.g., former USM Faulkner scholar Noel Polk, former USM provost Andy Griffin, and former USM psychology department chair Charlie Noblin). The physician/director of USM's health services, Virginia Crawford, took her undergraduate degree at MC, and quite a few other members of the Hattiesburg medical community received their baccalaureate degree at MC (e.g., Charles Parkman in Pulmonary Medicine, Thad Waites in Cardiology, Duane Burgess in Psychiatry, Stoney Williamson in Opthalmology, Roderick Cutrer in Family Medicine, Jeffrey Morris in Internal Medicine, James Cade in Emergency Medicine, James Pennebaker in Rheumatology, to name a few). Medical school acceptance rates for MC students are 15-25% higher than the national average. Numerous Hattiesburg attorneys were inspired by their MC professors during their undergraduate days there (e.g., Jimmy Pittman of Montague Pittman & Varnado). Although MC is, by design, a predominately undergraduate institution, it does very well with the limited number of programs it does offer at the graduate and professional level. The MC School of Law was recently named by the National Jurist as the 12th best in the nation for women (and one little known but documented fact is that MC was the first coeducational college in America to award an undergraduate degree to a woman!). At least two MC Law School graduates are on the USM faculty (Michael Smith in criminal justice, Ron Marquardt in political science). Of the 776 MC Nursing graduates, 775 are registered nurses, many of them working in the greater Hattiesburg area. Included among MC's alumni history have been five state governors, nearly 100 college presidents, former heads of the American Medical Association and the American Board of Pathology, the flight director of two Apollo missions, and three former justices of the Mississippi Supreme Court. With a current enrollment of 3,500 and still growing, no wonder this "university" which, by design, we still call a "college" continues to attract students in record numbers - "Real professors in real classrooms." MC may not make this message board's "Babe of the Day" list, but those of us who sat in those "real classrooms" with those "real professors" know that MC is a diamond among Mississippi's institutions of higher learning. 

 

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Originally posted by: foot soldier
""MC was the first coeducational college in America to award an undergraduate degree to a woman!" Really? Somehow I had the impression that it was Oberlin."

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The Oberlin literature does make that erroneous claim. I have discussed the matter with Oberlin graduates as well as with the Mississippi College president,  and I havelooked into the matter personally by communicating with Oberlin directly. The data clearly shows that the honor  belongs to MC. But if you do have any data that addresses this and which might not be publicly available, foot soldier, I will be happy to pass it on to MC. As it stands, however, MC trumps Oberlin as the first coeducational college in America to award an undergraduate degree to a woman (I can even give you her name and date of degree if you are interested). 

No doubt MC is a good school.

However, MC has had a few dark moments, not unlike USM....Dr Nobles

The last eight words of my post (above) should have read ". . . including but not limited to their distinguished music conservatory."

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This is very interesting. I don't have any inside scoop on Oberlin, but I had always heard they were the first and had never heard MC was. Thanks Little Doe.

IHL should note the swift action of MC's board about the Nobles situation.

 

Granted the Nobles situation is different from Thames, but the real issue is how it was/is being handled by those with ultimate responsibility for the school.

MC is a good place to get an education and will continue to grow