The Education of a Lifetime
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Before he became chancellor of the University of Mississippi, Robert Khayat was a professional football kicker who had grown up in the small town of Moss Point. This memoir follows him from those early years, when segregation shaped even a college baseball team's chances to compete, through a painful family event, to the 1960s, when a campus erupted over the enrollment of a Black student. Decades later he returned to the university to face the lingering racial tensions that clung to its traditions, including the controversy over the Confederate flag. Khayat describes courting unusual donors, talking privately with governors, coaches and celebrities, and searching for a balance between a difficult past and a hopeful future. Told with humor and warmth, the book shows how one leader's commitment to human dignity can help change an institution.
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