So the board outage occurred during a big part of the current MUW renaming events. I have a cousin who is a '70's grad so I see a good bit of the info on her social media. Besides a failed try at renaming the university in the 90's they are currently in a process to find a much needed new name since they now have men's sports. Let's just say it's not going well.
In early January a new name of Mississippi Brightwell University was announced. This was pretty much universally rejected by all alumni, people threatening to stop donating, etc. The renaming was quickly paused in order to redo the process.
In the last couple of weeks another name was announced. Wynbridge State University of Mississippi. Since MUW is a public university the name change has to go through the legislature. Apparently this latest name doesn't have the support to pass so the renaming has again been paused.
They have sent surveys to alumni over the last year or so but apparently they didn't or weren't able to find anything useful info from those.
In early January a new name of Mississippi Brightwell University was announced. This was pretty much universally rejected by all alumni, people threatening to stop donating, etc. The renaming was quickly paused in order to redo the process.
In the last couple of weeks another name was announced. Wynbridge State University of Mississippi. Since MUW is a public university the name change has to go through the legislature. Apparently this latest name doesn't have the support to pass so the renaming has again been paused.
They have sent surveys to alumni over the last year or so but apparently they didn't or weren't able to find anything useful info from those.