Utica Institute Museum celebrates opening
The Utica Institute Museum on the Utica Campus of Hinds Community College officially opened in February with Hinds AHS alumnus Congressman Bennie Thompson and Mississippi Humanities Council Executive Director Dr. Stuart Rockoff as featured speakers. The museum tells...
The Hub offers JATC students collaboration space
Students at Hinds Community College’s Jackson Campus-Academic/Technical Center have a new place to work and collaborate between classes and it comes with a very historical twist. The Student Hub or, “The Hub” for short, officially opened on Feb. 25 on the Sunset Drive...
Hinds CC hires new Student Services chief
Dr. Jennifer Miles is busy getting to know the Hinds family in her new role as Vice President of Student Services. Miles began work Feb. 1, replacing Randall Harris, who is retiring March 31. As the head of Student Services, she will work with students from the...
Hinds CARES Day
About 200 Hinds Community College employees volunteered March 11 at 13 nonprofit sites in Jackson, Clinton, Vicksburg, Brandon, Utica and Pelahatchie as part of the second Hinds CARES Day. Volunteers once again cleaned, mopped and organized working space, among other...
Two students named Coca-Cola Gold Scholars
Kellygrace Loko (pictured above, left) and Julie Stepp (pictured above, right), both students at Hinds Community College in the 2021-2022 academic term, have each been named a 2022 Coca-Cola Academic Team Gold Scholar and will receive a $1,500 scholarship. The...
Eagle Beauty Revue 2022
Anna Lynn Sills was selected as Most Beautiful in the annual Hinds Community College Eagle Beauty Revue pageant on Thursday, March 10. Sills is a Raymond Campus freshman studying Radiologic Technology. She is a graduate of Copiah Academy. At Hinds, she is a member of...
Healthcare careers highlighted at nursing showcase
Caregiving comes easy to Alivia Barton, who attended the spring 2022 Nursing Allied Health Showcase March 10 with the next generation already with her. “I’m expecting to give birth to a daughter later this year, so I’m coming to school either for RN or LPN to provide...
Desire to build education drives Raymond woman
Amanda Bufkin has helped build theaters, casinos, hotels and more in the course of nearly 25 years in construction. “I’ve worked on the movie theater when it was in Clinton and hotels in San Antonio and on Tybee Island in Georgia,” Bufkin said. “And I can’t even...