by | Dec 16, 2021 | Graduation
Forrest Davis is getting in on the ground floor of an in-demand career thanks to Hinds Community College. “I chose the Logistics Technology program because I want to manage my own factory someday,” Davis said just before walking across the stage for fall commencement....
by Cathy Hayden | Dec 14, 2021 | Graduation
Hinds Community College will graduate more than 870 students in one of three graduation ceremonies on Dec. 15 at the Muse Center on the Rankin Campus. Nursing and allied health students will graduate at 9 a.m. Associate Degree Nursing graduate Nija Spires will have...
by | Dec 19, 2019 | Graduation, News
PEARL – Herbert Strickland spent more than 23 years in law enforcement, much of it working with K-9 units as they protect and serve. An unfinished academic resume’, however, plus responsibilities on the horizon with a daughter entering high school soon had him wanting...
by | Dec 6, 2019 | Feature, News, Nursing Allied Health Center
RAYMOND – Brandy Benton lived up to her hometown’s name when she first attended Hinds Community College in the 1990s. As a catcher on the softball team, Benton, of the Star community near Florence, batted .450 and drove in 42 runs during her sophomore season. For her...
by | Dec 17, 2018 | Campus News
PEARL – Kiana Sanders already had a degree in psychology from Jackson State University when she faced a crossroads in life. “I had started in the nursing program, then became pregnant with my daughter, Jade,” said Sanders, a third-generation Hinds graduate. Her late...
by Cathy Hayden | Dec 10, 2018 | Alumni, Nursing Allied Health Center, People Profiles
For a while, Melonie Townes of Brandon was living out the prediction of a high school biology teacher who told her she’d be the first in the class to get pregnant, work at a hamburger joint and not make anything of herself. The only thing the teacher got wrong was...
