Three years ago Ole Miss embarked on a journey through uncharted waters: Fundraising from parents of out-of-state students. Since that date, the Ole Miss Parents Association (OMPA) Parents Leadership Council (PLC) has become an organization dedicated to serving the needs of parents of all students, specifically those who live out of the state of Mississippi. The University recognizes that more students are coming to Ole Miss each year from outside the state, and that most of these students parents are not alumni.

At the same time that we are obtaining all of these out of state students, more and more parents are expressing their interest in being more involved in lives of their children and with the University as a whole. This incredible organization consists of a great number of committed parents who feel that they can give back to the University that has given their child so much. As parents with means they in a sense extend their role as provider for their own child to provider for many of the other students here at Ole Miss.

It is parents like the ones mentioned above that have enabled some of Ole Miss’s students to attend college through grants and scholarships; it is parents like those that have provided more computers in the computer labs and more books and research material in the library, it is parents like those who have created an overall better learning and educational environment for all students at Ole Miss. We would like for you to consider becoming one of those extraordinary parents.

Membership in the PLC requires a minimum gift of $2,500. This contribution is tax-deductible, can be restricted to a specific area of the University, and guarantees membership for one year.

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