Stewpot director uses Hinds CC experience to put faith into action

by | Jul 10, 2017 | Alumni, News, People Profiles

Note: The following story appears in the summer issue of Hindsight alumni magazine. For more information about the Hinds Alumni Association, see the website. JACKSON – The faces of poverty, homelessness, addiction and despair walk the same hallways Rev. Jill Barnes...

Working through school kept Hinds CC alum, top school chief honest

by | Jul 10, 2017 | Alumni, News, People Profiles

Note: The following story appears in the summer issue of Hindsight alumni magazine. For more information about the Hinds Alumni Association, see the website. PEARL – Dr. Ray Morgigno felt the importance of an education not with the sound of paper and pencil, but with...

Former beauty queen Lucas still smiling thanks to Hinds CC

by | Jul 10, 2017 | Alumni, News, People Profiles

Note: The following story appears in the summer issue of Hindsight alumni magazine. For more information about the Hinds Alumni Association, see the website. MAGEE – After graduating from Mendenhall High School, Gloria Patrick Lucas felt as many young people do when...

Great-grandmother among 45 at High School Equivalency ceremony at Hinds CC

by | Jul 6, 2017 | News

Ruby Hardy RAYMOND – Ruby Hardy came home to Jackson last year the way countless people make their way back home – to take care of family. “I came back to take care my mother,” Hardy said. “It prompted me to go into the job center, but I didn’t qualify much since I...

Hinds CC Vicksburg-Warren Campus continues advanced river barge training course

by | Jun 28, 2017 | News

VICKSBURG – A career-building program on the Mississippi River has moved onto Hinds’ Vicksburg-Warren Campus to stay. Specialized training to be tankermen on push boats that help move products up and down the river is filling a big need for skilled labor on the water....

Teamwork, self-motivation front and center at M2M summit at Hinds CC

by | Jun 9, 2017 | News

RAYMOND – A person’s inner dialogue can be helpful or hurtful, depending on what that little voice inside says. It was a strong enough message to lead off this summer’s leadership summit for students involved in the Minority Male Leadership Initiative at Hinds...

Diplomas earned by 18 in Gateway to College program at Hinds CC Rankin Campus

by | Jun 8, 2017 | News

PEARL – For Laura Marie Barrett, being on a stage she once thought herself unworthy of her presence meant thanking a few people first. “I just want to say thank you so much to three wonderful women,” Barrett said, referring to the trio who have coordinated the Gateway...

Early Childhood Academy opening at Hinds CC

by Cathy Hayden | Jun 7, 2017 | News

Hinds Community College is becoming the home to one of 10 Early Childhood Academies being housed at community colleges throughout the state. An open house to spotlight the new program, which officially opens on July 1, is planned for 2 p.m. June 15 at the academy’s...

U.S. Department of Education awards Hinds CC Utica Campus $5.1 million

by Cathy Hayden | Jun 1, 2017 | News

The Utica Campus of Hinds Community College has been awarded more than $5.1 million for four Upward Bound Programs for the next five years. The grant will provide more than $1 million per year, beginning Sept. 1, 2017, to help fund the program that will target...

Hinds 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...