Major Achievements During Robert Khayat's 14 Years as Chancellor Print

01/05/2009

* Enrollment has increased 43.6 percent and minority enrollment has grown 78.5 percent.

* The Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, Croft Institute for International Studies, Lott Leadership Institute and William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation were created.

* Research and development grants topped $100 million each of the past eight years.

* Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's most prestigious liberal arts honor society, awarded Ole Miss a chapter.

* The endowment grew from $114.3 million to $472.4 million, a 313.3 percent increase.

* The university's operating budget grew from less than $500 million to nearly $1.5 billion, and its payroll increased from $260.8 million to $667 million.

* More than $535 million has been invested in physical facilities on Oxford and Jackson campuses. That total does not include the $210-plus million in construction projects underway on the Oxford campus:

- $50 million law center

- $46 million residential college

- $30 million natural products research center expansion

- $19.6 million research park

- $18.5 million baseball stadium expansion

- $16 million Center for Manufacturing Excellence

- $12 million basketball practice facility

* New facilities on the Oxford campus include:

- $20 million Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts

- $3.6 million Paris-Yates Chapel and Peddle Bell Tower

- $23 million Business and Accountancy Complex

- $18 million Indoor Practice Facility

- $25 million Vaught-Hemingway Stadium expansion

- $5 million FedEx Academic Support Center

- $20 million Inn at Ole Miss expansion

* New facilities at the University of Mississippi Medical Center include:

- $53 million University Hospital

- $60 million Guyton Laboratory Research Building

- $23.5 million Conerly Hospital for Critical Care

- $17 million Batson Hospital for Children and $9.7 million hospital addition

- $37.7 million Wiser Hospital for Women and Infants

- $9 million Nelson Student Union

- $13.2 million School of Health Related Professions building

* Ole Miss provides $138.5 million annually in student financial aid, up from $16.5 million in 1995.

* The number of National Merit Finalists in the freshman class has more than doubled.

* The university celebrated its Sesquicentennial anniversary, completed a $525.9 million Commitment to Excellence Campaign, commemorated the 40th anniversary of its integration and will soon announce completion of its successful $200 million MomentUM Campaign.

* The university produced its 24th and 25th Rhodes scholars. It also produced five Truman, eight Goldwater and six Fulbright scholars, plus one Marshall and one Udall scholar.

* Ole Miss received the Grand Award for the country's best maintained campus from a national landscaping society.