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��������CC English students assist in editing their own textbook

by | May 26, 2017 | News

RAYMOND – Imagine being a student and having a say in what goes into the textbook used in your English class. Sounds like a bookworm’s daydream? A staff of three students have lived that dream for a few semesters and will contribute to a text that English Composition...

Four ��������CC students named for Continental Tire summer internship

by Cathy Hayden | May 19, 2017 | News

Four �������� students will spend the summer in Mount Vernon, Ill., as part of an internship program at Continental Tire. They are Raymond Campus students Mack Pope, 25, of Terry, Electronics Technology; Ken Anderson, 49, of Jackson and Dylan Canant,...

��������CC Rankin Campus students complete College, Ink. literary journal

by Cathy Hayden | May 18, 2017 | Arts, News

�������� Rankin Campus students recently completed their most recent edition of College, Ink., the journal of creative writing. College, Ink. has done well in the annual Mississippi Community College Creative Writing Association contest against other...

Deadline extended for ‘Travel to Learn’ trip to Nashville, Kentucky

by Cathy Hayden | May 16, 2017 | News

The deadline for ��������’s Creative Learning-Fifty Plus office “Travel to Learn” trip to Nashville and Kentucky June 19-23 as been extended to Friday, May 26. The $100 deposit deadline has been extended to Friday, May 26 with the balance...

Building graduates: The Importance of a degree at ��������CC Utica Campus

by Cathy Hayden | May 16, 2017 | News

��������-Utica Campus celebrated the academic success of 104 students earning associates degrees, technical certificates and career certificates. Graduates gathered early for pictures, stories of achievement and for the traditional grand processional...

��������CC Rankin Campus high school career-tech students inducted into honor society

by Cathy Hayden | May 15, 2017 | News

The Pearl/Rankin Career and Technical Center at ��������’s Rankin Campus recently inducted students into the National Technical Honor Society. NTHS was established in 1984 in South Carolina for outstanding career and technical students of workforce...

��������CC Rankin Campus Health Science II students raise money for Pearl Fire Department

by Cathy Hayden | May 15, 2017 | News

Pearl High School Health Science II students from the Pearl-Rankin Career and Technical Center at ��������’s Rankin Campus presented a check to the Pearl Fire Department recently to assist in the purchase of a new monitor for firefighters. To raise...

��������CC graduates map out plans for the future

by Cathy Hayden | May 15, 2017 | News

Kenneth Varnell of Brandon owns his own masonry business but at age 41 he doesn’t think he’ll be up to physical labor forever. That’s why he decided to enroll at ��������. At the academic and career-technical credential graduation on May 12 he received...

��������CC academic, technical grads thrived upon return to school

by | May 15, 2017 | News

PEARL – Barbara Evans and Lattie Erving didn’t know each other before Friday, but already had a lifetime of work experience under their respective belts when they decided to pursue college degrees. “I’d always wanted to go to culinary school, so I said why not?”...

Grandmother of four among academic, technical grads at ��������CC

by | May 15, 2017 | News

PEARL – Vicki Colbert had already lived a full life taking care of people when she decided to pursue a second career. “I’m still the same lady from that little old town of Raymond,” Colbert said. “But, this is surely like a second life for me.” The 57-year-old...