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Front view of the campus. Mississippi University for Women ( MUW or "The W") is a coeducational public university in Columbus, Mississippi. It was formerly named the Industrial Institute and College for the Education of White Girls [5] and later the Mississippi State College for Women. Men have been admitted to MUW since 1982 [6] and as of 2022 ...
XIV. Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan, 458 U.S. 718 (1982), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, decided 5–4, which ruled that the single-sex admissions policy of the Mississippi University for Women violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Mississippi University for Women, Columbus (co-ed since 1982) Mount Hermon Female Seminary, Clinton (closed in 1924) Port Gibson Female College, Port Gibson (closed in 1928) Sharon Female College, Sharon (closed in 1873) Union Female College, Oxford; Whitworth College, Brookhaven (co-ed in 1950; closed in 1980) [13]
Of Mississippi’s nine state supported universities, MUW currently has the second-smallest enrollment, making it slightly larger than the 2,196-student Mississippi Valley State University and ...
Mississippi University for Women President Nora Miller announces the university's new name: Wynbridge State University of Mississippi, during a ceremony Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, at the university ...
1884: Industrial Institute & College (now Mississippi University for Women) was the first public women's college. It became coeducational in 1982 as a result of the Supreme Court's Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan case, but maintained its original name.
The Mississippi University for Women honored former students Diane Hardy, Barbara Turner, Laverne Greene-Leech, Jacqueline Edwards, Mary Flowers and Eula Houser who integrated the institution in ...
Doctoral university: Mississippi Delta Community College: Moorhead: Public: 1927 Community college: Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College: Perkinston: Public: 1912 Community college: Mississippi State University: Starkville: Public: 1878 Research university: Mississippi University for Women: Columbus: Public: 1884 Master's university ...