JACKSON– Students entering the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s largest health science school by enrollment will get a boost with a new scholarship program in fall 2026.
The Johnson Scholars program is part of an overall $5 million gift from Lisa and Michael Johnson of Madison, Mississippi, that provides both an endowment for School of Nursing’s Oxford Center and a scholarship fund for Mississippi residents enrolling in the Oxford program. The gift is designed to help meet the critical needs in nursing and to retain the state’s best and brightest in health care careers. Students in the accelerated BSN program at Oxford are also eligible.
“Mississippi is my home and it has been good to me, my family and my company,” said Michael E. Johnson, CEO of The Landmark Companies, a Flowood-based residential development company, and one of the benefactors of the gift. “Ole Miss played an important role educating my father (’60), and me (’96)…