LCSD board votes to change Caledonia’s Confederate mascot
Caledonia schools are changing the name of their sports teams from the Confederates.
MUW student poll reopens discussion on potential name change
When Rahel Stanford was a high school senior looking at colleges, she was surprised to learn Mississippi University for Women was a coed school.
Soldier convicted in WikiLeaks case changes name
An Army private convicted of providing classified documents to WikiLeaks won an initial victory Wednesday toward living as a woman when a Kansas judge granted a petition to change her name to Chelsea Elizabeth Manning.
Backlash prompts Heritage Academy to keep its old name
Heritage Academy has rescinded its decision to change its name.
The school announced earlier this week that it intended to rename Heritage Academy to Columbus Heritage Academy.
Heritage Academy changes name
Heritage Academy will soon be changing its name. A little.
Immanuel Christian has its own ‘Extreme Make-over’
The name fit the school perfectly, but that was just about the only place it fit.
With five words, 39 letters and 13 syllables, “Immanuel Center for Christian Education” was a mouthful to say and a handful to write. Filling out official forms, with their cramped text boxes and narrow columns, required the dexterity of a contortionist. Its acronym, ICCE, was equally a tongue-twister.
Alisa Holen: ‘Limiting ourselves to small dreams’
I write this with a heavy heart. My normal, optimistic demeanor has been sidetracked by the recent announcement by the Mississippi State Legislature to effectively kill the name change for our University. I am truly hopeful that the Mississippi University for Women will be able to survive as a standalone institution, but I am also realistic… and I know that our name is a tremendous hindrance on our ability to recruit students. The statistics are remarkable.