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Chancellor Dan Jones Leaving University of Mississippi Post
Photo courtesy Robert Jordan, UM Communications
Sources close to the administration and alumni have confirmed University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones will be stepping down from his post after six years. Administrators have been notified of an announcement to be made at 4:30 p.m. Friday.
Photo courtesy Robert Jordan, UM Communications
Jones emailed a letter to Ole Miss faculty, staff and students Friday afternoon regarding the situation, stating his contract would end Sept. 15 of this year.
Jones was diagnosed with lymphoma in early November of last year. An office was set up for him at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson so he could work from the state capital while receiving treatment. Jones completed his last scheduled round of chemotherapy at the end of February.
The university’s 16th chancellor, Jones has served on the Oxford campus since July 2009 and has overseen tremendous growth in the university’s enrollment and national recognition. The Vicksburg native has sought to make service to others a vital component of the student experience at Ole Miss.
Photo courtesy Robert Jordan, UM Communications
Before becoming chancellor, Jones led the Medical Center for six years as vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the School of Medicine. He also was the school’s Herbert G. Langford Professor of Medicine. He is a former national president of the American Heart Association and is a member of the AHA Council for High Blood Pressure Research.
After a Mississippi Public Universities board of trustees meeting Thursday, contracts were extended for the presidents of Delta State University, Jackson State University and University of Southern Mississippi. Calls to Jones, chief communications officer Tom Epps and director of public relations Danny Blanton were not returned.
Jones was born in Morton and to high school in Vicksburg. March 19 was his birthday.
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Eunice
March 20, 2015 at 10:12 pm
This is a tragedy….! This resignation is not Dan Jones” choice but an ‘unforgivable decision’ (as Jim Barksdale said) made for him… Those who care about the heart of Ole Miss and Mississippi should rise up in anger!
http://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2015/03/20/dan-jones-out-as-ole-miss-chancellor/25099465/
Louis P. Foley
March 21, 2015 at 5:35 pm
Its was time for a change.He was destroying g Ole Miss Traditions. Ole Miss 1970
Richard Swan
March 23, 2015 at 9:18 am
Mr Foley, Segregation was an Ole Miss tradition… It is time to create new inclusive traditions! Ole Miss 1982
Yosemite Rebel
March 23, 2015 at 1:36 pm
I, for one, am glad that Dan Jones will not be leading OUR OLE MISS any longer. I cannot begin to count the number of supporters this man has caused to leave the circle of families that supported Ole Miss for years. I support the Board in this decision and hope that they will stand strong against those who are in protest of it.