Ex-Ole Miss head to speak on his tenure

Dan Jones, the former chancellor of the University of Mississippi, will speak Thursday at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock.

Jones holds the Sanderson chair in obesity, metabolic diseases and nutrition, and he is the director of clinical and population science in the Mississippi Center for Obesity Research at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Miss.

He is a professor of medicine and physiology and is the interim chairman of the medical center’s Department of Medicine.

He has a 23-year association with the University of Mississippi, also serving as vice chancellor for health affairs and dean of the school of medicine from 2003-2009, and as chancellor of the university from 2009 until this month.

In his first speech after leaving the chancellor’s post, Jones will discuss his personal journey and the difficulty of playing politics for a prominent university in the South.

Under his leadership as chancellor, the university undertook a major initiative to promote diversity across all its campuses.

It also led the faculty, staff, and students to contribute thousands of volunteer hours.

Seats for the 6 p.m. Thursday lecture in Sturgis Hall can be reserved by emailing [email protected] or calling (501) 683-5239.

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