Spring 2017 is finally here! We want to give a big welcome to our new students and a welcome back to our returning ones. If you're new to UM-DeSoto's newsletter, keep your eyes peeled for our email each Monday. We will continue to provide important updates, fun stories and job opportunity information in each edition. Have a great week and a wonderful semester.
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Join UM-DeSoto at mobile food distribution Wednesday
We're starting off the semester with a great volunteer opportunity for faculty, staff and students alike! Volunteer Northwest Mississippi is organizing this month's mobile food distribution this Wednesday (Jan. 25).
Volunteers should arrive at 1:30 p.m. at the Landers Center in Southaven. Hundreds of families in DeSoto County rely on this food each month, so this is an easy way to give back and help out your community. For more information, email Kacy Dixon at [email protected].
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Want to receive text updates from UM-DeSoto?
The University of Mississippi - DeSoto now has a Remind account that allows us to text our student body with important updates from the student services office.
Signing up is simple. Just text "@umdstudent" to 81010. We promise we'll only text you occasionally and as a result you'll instantly receive important information about what's going on at our campus!
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Interested in selling your unwanted textbooks? How about buying some for the upcoming semester? Several of our students have created the "Ole Miss DeSoto Book Exchange," a Facebook page designed for students who are looking to purchase or get rid of old textbooks.
For more information, visit the page here.
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Study USA at the University of Mississippi is offering students the opportunity to travel to the delta to gain a better understanding of regional poverty and the power to effect change in communities.
Students will spend five Fridays on the main campus in Oxford from February 3 - March 3 for lectures and then travel to Clarksdale, Mississippi to engage in service-learning in the Delta from March 17-19, or an alternative trip, with the instructor's approval. The BUS 400 course offers three credit hours. Deadline to apply is this Wednesday (Jan. 25).
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Computer Lab Hours
The following hours (subject to change) are for the computer lab in Room 347. When the lab is closed, students can use the computer lab in the NWCC library, which will be open Monday-Thursday, 7:30 a.m. - 9 p.m. and Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.
- Monday, Jan. 23: 12-4 p.m.
- Tuesday, Jan. 24: 12:30-5:30 p.m.
- Wednesday, Jan. 25: 12-4 p.m.
- Thursday, Jan. 26: 1-5:30 p.m.
- Friday, Jan. 27: CLOSED
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Career Corner
Available jobs, internships and volunteer opportunities will be listed below as our office is notified.
- AroundCampus Group, Outside Sales Summer Intern
- Currently seeking applicants for summer positions. There are 16 companies that hire directly out of the program such as Federated Insurance, Gartner, Edward Jones, TEKSystems. For more information, click here.
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Upcoming Events & Announcements
- Senior Portraits, Jan. 23-27, Oxford, MS, Tad Smith Coliseum
- If you still need to take your senior portrait, sign up for an appointment in Oxford by visiting ouryear.com using school code 141.
- Mobile Food Distribution, Jan. 25, Landers Center, 1:30 p.m.
- Spring Break, March 13-17
- Commencement, May 13, Oxford
- A friendly reminder: UM-DeSoto's testing center is located in the UM-DeSoto Annex Building, 1158 Church Rd., Southaven, MS
- New students who did NOT attend orientation sessions for Spring 2017 may pick up a student handbook (that doubles as a planner) in the front office.
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