Some Mississippi University for Women alumni leaders have sued the institution’s president, Claudia A. Limbert, in an attempt to stop her move to reaffiliate the university with a revamped alumni association under a new, 12-member interim board.
A group known as the “National Executive Board” of the MUW Alumni Association filed the suit in a state court on Thursday, according to The Clarion-Ledger, a newspaper in Jackson, Miss. The reaffiliation is scheduled to become effective on Monday. A hearing on the lawsuit is also set for Monday.
The university was founded in 1884 as America’s first public college for women. Although it retains “women” in its name and is affectionately known as “the W,” men have attended the institution since 1982. —Charles Huckabee
