Giving to Criminal Justice & Legal Studies

Scholarships

Your contributions to the Department of Criminal Justice & Legal Studies will directly benefit our students through providing scholarship dollars. The following scholarships are awarded each year to students to help cover the cost of attendance:

Chief Richard Michael Popernik and Joan Grisham Popernik Legal Studies Scholarship – The requirements of this award are being a full time Legal Studies major at the junior or senior level. Recipients are selected based on academic excellence, community involvement, integrity, and commitment to the program.

Robert Langley Memorial Scholarship Award – The requirements for this award are being a full time Criminal Justice major, financial need, and a minimum grade point average of 2.25.

Columbus B. Hopper Scholarship Endowment Award – The requirements for this award are being a full time Legal Studies Majors at the senior level and a minimum grade point average of 3.75.

Center for Evidence-Based Policing and Reform (CEBPR)

Individuals and organizations can support the Center for Evidence-Based Policing and Reform by visiting https://umfoundation.com/cebpr.

If you wish to make a donation to the Department, you may do so online.

Feel free to contact our Development Officer at 662-915-1584 or rmporchi@olemiss.edu. Checks also can be mailed to the University of Mississippi Foundation, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation of the state of Mississippi, with the center or department’s name written in the memo line, to 406 University Ave., Oxford, MS 38655.