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Welcome to CELI


Mission

The mission of the Center for Excellence in Literacy Instruction (CELI) and the School of Education is to provide exemplary instruction, relevant research, and effective service through collaboration with schools, businesses, community organizations, and the public at large. The goal is to prepare reflective professionals who positively and effectively interact with persons diverse in race, culture, gender, age, ability, and/or developmental level. CELI’s targeted goal is to prepare reading/literacy teachers who know how to teach reading to all children, especially those children in Mississippi who are in low socioeconomic-status districts.

". . .bookstores are dominant fixtures of Oxford's nostalgic, all-American town square ("the Square"), a slice of Southern life rarely seen in cities today. The palpable sense that this is the prototypical Southern college town is never more ubiquitous than during home football games at Ole Miss-late August to late November-when marathon tailgating and good-natured mayhem abounds."

—Patricia Schultz, 1000 Places to See in the U.S.A. and Canada Before You Die