Monday, January 29, 2024

From the W to Brightwell to......

 The folks at the "W" can't seem to make up their minds on what they should call the Mississippi University for Women.  They realized "Mississippi Brightwell University" was not a good idea but unfortunately, don't seem to have learned anything.  The "W" posted the following options on its website.  

Wynbridge

The first part of Wynbridge comes from the Old English word for the letter W. Borrowing on this history, we pair it with bridge. A bridge connects the past to the future, our alums to our students, and our campus to our community. When the W was founded, it built a bridge from exclusion to empowerment for women. With this name, past, present, and future alumni will all be W grads, creating a continuous connection for our tradition-rich school, while maintaining its forward-looking spirit.

Welbright

The first part of Welbright comes from the idea of wellness, which represents our supportive environment that promotes the well-roundedness of our students. Traditionally each graduation ceremony begins with a reminder of the historic purpose of the university, to “study for light to bless with light.” This idea lives and breathes at the University, embodying a supportive, inclusive, and empowering community. This is a name that reflects our founders’ vision of excellence, positive transformation, and brighter futures.

Wynbright

The first part of Wynbright comes from the Old English word for the letter W. Borrowing on this history, we pair it with bright. Traditionally each graduation ceremony begins with a reminder of the historic purpose of the university, to “study for light to bless with light.” This idea lives and breathes at the University, embodying a supportive, inclusive, and empowering community. This is a name that reflects our founders’ vision of excellence, positive transformation, and brighter futures.

The name will incorporate "Mississippi", "University", and one of the names listed above. 

Kingfish note: They still can't get it right.  Just make it a satellite campus of MSU and be done with it.  Put the poor thing out of its misery.  



50 comments:

Anonymous said...

Close list:

MUW
Delta State University
Alcorn State University
Jackson State University
MS Valley State University


They are no longer needed. The free market would prove it.

Anonymous said...

Pick names that start with the letter W, except Women. It’s just comical at this point, especially the corporate/college speak explanations. Just call it Columbus State.

Anonymous said...

I'll agree with you, 1:52 p.m., on Valley and the W, but I think there are strong arguments to be made on keeping the other three.

Anonymous said...

Remarkably, by this list the people in charge of that place are even dumber than I thought.......

Anonymous said...

Mississippi Woke University...

Anonymous said...

How about officially change the name to "The W"

I could have saved them so much money on this. Surely somebody is getting fired. This episode pretty much makes a marketing degree from MUW worthless.

Anonymous said...

1:52. I would think that one or two of the HBCU's would make it--even private HBCU's get a lot of corporate/donor money. At least one would make it (likely JSU)

the nameless "W" and Delta State-that's another conversation.

We no longer need Community Colleges to offer college transfer credit. People have cars and online learning-this isn't 1944. Community Colleges should focus on trades-which is DESPERATELY needed.

Anonymous said...

Mississippi only needs three universities:
Ole Miss
Mississippi State
Jackson State

Anonymous said...

You can't make this stuff up.

Anonymous said...

Close MUW make it a satellite campus and save all the $ paying high-level admin, etc.

No one needs it. Let it die.

Anonymous said...

1:52PM, have I failed to notice the advent of teleportation? Can one, now, be instantly teleported onto campus?

Otherwise, there is still a need, for many people, to have colleges close to where they live and work. And there is a need, for regions served by local colleges, to not lose their young people (My husband and I went off to college, and did not move back to the parish and county where we were reared. We are fairly typical, in that regard.) The fact that Greenville is dying, while Cleveland is thriving, is partly due to the fact that Greenville's founding pillars resisted the location of Delta State in their community.

Streamlining operations (reducing the number of administrators, for one thing) would return the smaller colleges to viability. The model of small colleges, is one which worked, for centuries. Why can't it still work?

The hiring of carpetbaggers from the outside world, though, should be reconsidered. Just as a magazine has a 'house style', so does a college. (and MSCW is a golden example of this) Those helming such institutions, should be products of those institutions. As it is, though, Mississippi's venerable, history-rich colleges/universities, are undergoing an ugly transmogrification - becoming nothing more than anonymous education UTILITIES.

Anonymous said...

1:52 There never was a "free market". Certain institutions could not be allowed to supply the demand no matter what. Eventually the demand would go elsewhere. That's not a free market. But you are right, they are on the cut list.

Anonymous said...

"Wymyn's University of Mississippi" shows that perfect dash of wokeness and lets you keep your W.

Anonymous said...

The legacy of Bill "the educator" Waller

Anonymous said...

Leave Delta State alone. It's a good school.

Anonymous said...

This shows the bubble academics live in. MUW is lucky to exist - & yet its priority is choosing among a list of names that only they relate to. They've begun to realize there's a reality out there, but still misfire in dealing with it.

Anonymous said...

Lipstick on a pig!

Anonymous said...

First rule in these folks' book of beliefs - don't apologize or reverse yourself. ESPECIALLY if you're wrong.

Anonymous said...

MSU Columbus Campus

Anonymous said...

I see that MUW doesn't have nearly enough to justify being a separate university. Merge it into MSU & eliminate the top level administrators who don't have anything better to do than drum up a disastrous renaming fiasco. While they're at it, fire the clueless, kiss ass PR firm MUW hired to lead the effort.

Anonymous said...

How about just Welty University ? You keep the W and name it after a well-known MS author.

Anonymous said...

Yeah, 2:40. Cause we don’t need a university south of I-20, right?

Anonymous said...

If you have to explain a name, the name sucks and should not be considered.

Anonymous said...

They should rename it Wississippi State so they don’t have to rebrand all the Ws

Anonymous said...

5:51

Apparently the Welty family said hell no. She went there for a semester and hated her time there.

If the change has to be made, they have two clear choices. The problem is they are trying to combine both choices and it will not work.

Choice 1 is to go with the snotty sounding name (Reneau was one of the choices before these three). Make it sound like a private liberal arts university.

Choice 2 is to go with the traditional regional university naming system. Columbus State, Eastern/Northern Mississippi.

My guess is that they go with Mississippi Welbright University. Its obviously what the powers that be want. If not for their nursing school, the place would be completely worthless. Even the Mississippi School for Math and Science, a K-12 school on their campus for the best and brightest in Mississippi, is not what it used to be.

Anonymous said...

I'd love to see how much MUW has paid the Charnoff Newman PR agency it retained to manage this name change. A Public Information Request could be interesting.

The agency has offices in Washington DC, 2 offices in South Carolina (Columbus & Charleston), along with an Orlando office & another in Charlotte. But none in Mississippi. It's website states, "As an integrated communications firm, we combine creativity with business know-how to deliver cross-channel solutions based on research." It certainly excels in corporate jargon.

Anonymous said...

I agree with 2:40. Shut down Southern Miss

Anonymous said...


Tells me someone at the W isn't listening very well. Seems like they've decided a new name but can't adhere to what they're hearing. Make it the W CAMPUS OF MSU OR LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE-

Anonymous said...

MSU Columbus

Robert W Neill Jr, Land Broker said...

Those are worse than the first one.

Anonymous said...

My wife and her "W" alumnae friends don't want it renamed but if it must be they like "The W, A Mississippi University" and all agree if men don't like it they need to go somewhere else.

Anonymous said...

Just close the place and make it a museum to the sexism and racism that established Mississippi's system of "higher education" in the first place. Inferior schools for women and blacks maintained by an overall college board. Nothing has changed, but close it anyway. You can learn a lot at a museum.

Anonymous said...

Save time and money. Fire the President tonight.

Anonymous said...

MSU at the W. There you go. Problem solved.

Mitchell said...

my mother went to the W in 1958. Her father owned a going concern at the time in Columbus. She very much enjoyed her time there, but in this climate and the way the world is the W should be incorporated to MSU

Don Drane said...

Now entering the winner's circle:

In honor of Barney, I would like to suggest Mendelbright U. The name serves to remind us of the dominance of women, the cowering of men and the proposition that males remain in their lane.

Mrs. Mendelbright, you will recall, forbade Barn's use of a hotplate in his room and seized every opportunity to chastise him for doing so.

Barn shriveled into a puddle.

The Constabulary, represented by Andy, spinelessly stood-down.

Mrs. Mendelbright, signifying victory for women everywhere, removed her brassiere and set fire to it with a raised Olympic Torch.

Anonymous said...

All those schools that so many of you want to close do indeed serve a very useful purpose. If they were to close, where would all those students go? - MSU, UM, USM. Nope we need to hope they never close.

Anonymous said...

Using 7:37's logic then we don't have enough universities.
"A chicken in every pot and a university in every town."

Canton State University
University of Morton
Tutwiler Tech

I like it!

Anonymous said...

Mississippi, one of the poorest states in the nation, has 8 colleges/universities and 23 community colleges. Dumb.

Anonymous said...

7:37 Years ago it was assumed Mississippi would have to combine/consolidate it's universities in order to compete on the SEC level. So much talent went to the SWAC schools. That has changed and Coach Kiffen and the transfer portal show that it's not necessary to do that. At one time it was doubtful, but we CAN keep all eight public universities and still win. Preserving Higher Education remains a priority.

Anonymous said...

MUW, Delta State, Valley and Alcorn combined have less than 10,000 students.

Jackson State has 9,800
USM has 15,000
State has 23,000
Ole Miss has 24,000

Some consolidation is needed

Anonymous said...

The W was, when established, the first public school for women in the nation. That's something of which we should be proud. I like "The W, a Mississippi university"

Anonymous said...

USM serves no purpose. UM is an R1 school, MSU is a great land grant, and JSU is a strong HBCU. Southern Miss just doesn't make sense.

Anonymous said...

https://sites.google.com/view/reimagining-the-w/home?fbclid=IwAR2AbU6ELxFgdlv86LYd4Ce66OJedBDqPBGYrI7MZm4MTh2nOXc79UMnZG0

Anonymous said...

11:17 Wrong. USM is the state university for central and southern Mississippi. The Big Three, that's it. Ask the IHL. The rest can pound sand.

Anonymous said...

Just change the name to University of Mississippi - Columbus. Just as the outstanding University of North Carolina and University of California systems have campus throughout their states.

Anonymous said...

How about ‘Not Bright’

Anonymous said...

For God's sake! Consolidate our universities so we save, not only embarrassment but a ton of tax dollars!

At least, Goober, look at how much money was saved and how education prospered and improved in the other 49!

And, then there's that we have " live on campus" junior colleges that are not " within an hour's drive" even from other junior colleges.

IF Mississippi wasn't a fiefdom, that we have junior colleges that make these two year competitors look like the scam they are, we'd attract out of state student to our junior colleges and made them the " Ivy League" of any two year program!



Just a normal dude said...

The W

A Mississippi University



Done! How hard was that?

Anonymous said...

@12:23 "The Big Three" What's big about Southern Miss? State and Ole Miss hardly acknowledge it.


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