Jeffrey Vitter, a computer scientist and an accomplished academic who serves as the Provost of Kansas University, will be confirmed as the newest Chancellor of Ole Miss, per Clay Chandler of the Clarion-Ledger. The state's College Board will announce the hire at 2 p.m. Central today, concluding a months-long search that resulted from former Ole Miss Chancellor Dan Jones' abrupt termination this past March. That termination was met with protests from Ole Miss faculty, staff, students, and alumni who viewed the termination as wrongful and politically motivated.
This led to concerns that the Mississippi Institutes of Higher Learning would make a hire that served their general interests, and not the more specific interests of Ole Miss.