• ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
• DIVERSITY PROGRAMMING
• EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY
• FACULTY STAFF RECRUITMENT
• GENERAL ANALYSIS
• GRADUATE EDUCATION
• MULTI-CULTURAL PROGRAMMING
• PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

Dr. Donald R. Cole is an administrator and faculty member at the University of Mississippi. In his capacities as Assistant Provost and Assistant to the Chancellor for Multicultural Affairs, Associate Professor of Mathematics, and a member of the Chancellor's Executive Staff. Dr. Cole plays an active leadership role in policy making, teaching, research, and diversification at the Universit He attended high school in Jackson, Mississippi, and holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Mississippi, M.A degrees from both the State University of New York and the University of Michigan and a Bachelor Degree from Tougaloo College. Believing that education is the “great equalizer” and the central feature in the prevailing endurance of mankind, Dr. Cole is stern advocate for education, particularly for minority students. He devotes his time and energy to projects and causes that promotes the schooling, teaching, training and guidance opportunities of our children – particularly towards advanced degrees. Dr. Cole's research area is Partial Differential Equations (PDEs. He teaches courses in PDEs, Special Topics, Geometry, Differential Equations and Calculus. He holds several grants for which he is either Principal Investigator (PI) or CoPI. Dr. Cole is originally from Jackson, Mississippi. In plays a very active role within the community with leadership roles in humanity, service and religious organization. His wife, Marcia, works in academia and is a minister of the Gospel and they have three children, Donald II , Mariah and William .