People I (Sort Of) Know: Ole Miss chancellor Glenn Boyce

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🗓️ 13 September 2022

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Chase Parham sits down with Ole Miss chancellor Glenn Boyce for this edition of the show. Boyce took over as chancellor in 2019 and helped navigate the university through the pandemic. Now, Ole Miss is experiencing record freshmen enrollment and retention rates well above the industry standard. We discuss those topics, a few athletics subjects, including head football coach Lane Kiffin, and what's next for the university. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today on the People I Sort of No podcast, we speak with Ole Miss Chancellor Glenn Boyce.
0:14.5	Glenn took over the chancellorship in October 2019, less than six months after that, the pandemic hit the United States. He
0:23.7	navigated Ole Miss through that time period. And that was on the other side. We talk a good
0:28.5	bit today about retention rates, enrollment, the health, the university, and cover a lot of other
0:34.8	topics, including I know a lot of sports fans obviously listening to this podcast.
0:38.5	We discuss Lane Kiffin, some of his recent comments about Oxford and Ole Miss and what it's meant to him.
0:45.1	And then we also kind of get into some deeper topics as far as the university, logistically, things that are necessary for it to move forward in the best way possible, everything from
0:55.9	dorms and handling the extra students to anything else that we can think of over the course,
1:00.2	about a half hour with Chancellor Boyce.
1:03.4	I really appreciate his time today as we navigate several topics to do with Ole Miss.
1:08.2	Ole Miss welcoming me in a record of freshman class.
1:10.6	We do not know the exact numbers yet, those coming out from the IHL later in the semester.
1:15.6	But for sure, a freshman record, we discussed ways there are reasons why that's the case,
1:20.4	what it means for Ole Miss, and what's kind of the perfect size for each class for
1:25.0	Ole Miss moving forward.
1:25.9	So I really enjoyed our conversation, I think, as Ole Miss fans,
1:30.1	Ole Miss students, Ole Miss employees and whatnot,
1:34.0	you will enjoy it as well.
1:35.0	A lot of good information here from Chancellor Boyce.
1:37.6	We'll get on with it.
1:38.8	Again, here is Ole Miss Chancellor Glenn Boyce.
1:43.4	Chancellor Glenn Boyce here. Now, with this, thanks for the time today.
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