| Others believe
the last decade will be known as the university’s golden
era. One thing is indisputable: Since 1995, an ordinary state
university has been transformed into a great American public university.
Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human
Services Donna Shalala declared in 2000, “Ole Miss is no longer
catching up with America’s great public universities. Ole Miss
is one of America’s great public universities.”
On the 40th anniversary of James Meredith’s
enrollment, former U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach said, |
