The University of Mississippi

Impact of Campaign Felt Across Campuses

The Ole Miss Pride of the South marching band spells out the total raised during the University of Mississippi's Now & Ever capital campaign during halftime of the Ole Miss vs. Arkansas football game on Saturday, Set. 13, 2025. The largest fundraising campaign in state history raised $1.75 billion for university facilities, programs and students. Photo by Srijita Chattopadhyay/ Ole Miss Digital Imaging Services

Now & Ever: The Campaign for Ole Miss is transforming the University of Mississippi’s Oxford campus and the Medical Center with new facilities including:

  • Jim and Thomas Duff Center for Science and Technology Innovation
  • Kathy and Joe Sanderson Tower at UMMC Children’s of Mississippi
  • Expansion of the Olivia and Archie Manning Athletics Performance Center
  • New practice field for the Pride of the South Marching Band
  • New softball stadium
  • Grove Plaza
  • Tosh Family Short Golf Course
  • Payne Family Esports Facility
  • Prefontaine Family Track Stadium
  • Children’s of Mississippi Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at UMMC
  • Priscilla and David O’Donnell Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Cardiac Wing and renovation of the cardiac step-down and medical-surgical floor at UMMC

Campaign funds were also secured for the future construction or upgrades of:

  • Jones Hall, new home of the Patterson School of Accountancy
  • Triplett Alumni Center
  • Cancer Center and Research Institute at UMMC
  • Fred R. Adams Jr. MIND Center and Geriatric Clinic at UMMC
  • Innovation Kitchen at South Oxford Center
  • New recording studio, scene shop and rehearsal space for the performing arts
  • Greenfield Farm Writers Residency
  • Soccer and golf program facilities
  • Home for the Ole Miss Women’s Council for Philanthropy

Program support ensure UM graduates are both career-ready, equipped to solve real-world problems from day one and prepared to serve medical and societal needs. Among those launched during the Now & Ever campaign were the:

  • Center for Evidence-Based Policing and Reform
  • Jordan Center for Journalism Advocacy and Innovation and the Mississippi Lab in the School of Journalism and New Media
  • Center for Practical Ethics
  • Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom
  • BASE: The Core for Business Analytics, Sales and Supply Chain Excellence in the School of Business Administration
  • Center for Insurance Transformation in the business school
  • Stephanie and Mitchell Morris Center for Cleft and Craniofacial Research and Innovation at UMMC
  • Jabaley Songcharoen Center for Hand, Upper Extremity and Nerve Surgery at UMMC
  • Telemental health services through the School of Education for K-12 students across the state
  • Experiential learning support across schools
  • Data science education in the School of Engineering
  • William Magee Center for Alcohol and Other Drugs and Wellness Education and the William Magee Institute for Student Wellbeing
  • Business law fellowship in the School of Law
  • University archivist in the J.D. Williams Library