Former university chancellor offers memoir of moving on at Ole Miss | PBS NewsHour | Dec. 31, 2013 | PBS: HARI SREENIVASAN: We turn now to an interview with the man who ushered in a new era at the University of Mississippi, Ole Miss, to generations of students and alumni.
His name is Robert Khayat, the former chancellor of the university. This image from October 1962 is seared in our national memory, a lone black man, James Meredith, escorted by federal agents enrolled at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. A riot ensued. Forty-four years later, Khayat dedicated this statue of Meredith on the campus, one of the many actions he took to erase all remaining traces of the university's segregated past.
Robert Khayat, born and raised in Mississippi, returned to run his alma mater in 1995 and retired in 2009.
Judy Woodruff talked to him recently about his new memoir, "The Education of a Lifetime."
JUDY WOODRUFF: Robert Khayat, thank you very much for talking with us.
ROBERT KHAYAT, "The Education of a Lifetime": Thank you.
