HONORING NICK CLARK Fourth National Championship Sports Hall of Fame Harvard officials visit EMCC u PG. 18 u PG. 6 u PG. 27 LIONS’ PRIDE 1 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Our Business and Office Technology department added new majors in Accounting Technology, Business Management Technology and Computer Technology. Those are but a few examples. We’ve grown. In January, the student union on our Golden Triangle campus opened and quickly became the hub of student activity. Construction on our “Communiversity,” which will house training to prepare students for work in today’s high-tech industries, is progressing rapidly and we are moving forward with efforts to build additional student resident halls on our Scooba campus. We’ve logged other milestones this year. Our accreditation was reaffirmed without a single follow-up report following an extensive review of our financial records, academic programs, faculty credentials and students outcomes. “Ranked among the Top 10 community colleges in the nation by SmartAsset.” Dr. Thomas Huebner, Jr. can be reached by email We were among four community colleges nationwide chosen at
[email protected]. to take part in a new initiative to improve student success rates through a grant funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. East Mississippi Community College’s Scooba Through the grant, we partnered with InsideTrack, which works with colleges and universities to help increase student enrollment, campus was founded in 1927, the year Charles degree completion and career readiness. Lindberg completed the world’s first solo transatlantic flight, taking off from New York and landing safely in Paris 34 hours And we continue to garner national accolades.