March 31, 2017 | by April Garon
March 31, 2017 | by Cathy Hayden
March 2017 has been a banner month for my family. One granddaughter turned three. I finished a master’s degree and will graduate in May. My younger daughter just got accepted into nurse practitioner school at the University of Southern Mississippi. But the biggest news may be that the same daughter is getting married sometime this fall.
For me, that’s plenty of incentive to try to shed some of the weight I have put on in the last 10 years – coincidentally the same time I came to work at Hinds Community College.
March 30, 2017 | by De’Shane Frye
In August 2017, Hinds Community College’s Raymond Campus was introduced to a new math instructor. Melanie Wells made her Hinds debut at the start of the 2016-2017 academic session. Although she is relatively new to Hinds’ students, she’s made an immediate impact on both her colleagues and her students.
March 23, 2017 | by Dan Fuller
Marhaba! This past semester, my family had the opportunity to travel to Palestine, spending four months engaged in research and cultural explorations. My wife was the recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Award in Teaching, which provided funding for her to pursue a research project in the Palestinian Territories (and she was able to bring us along!).
March 10, 2017 | by Danny Barrett Jr.
It’s not often people gather in person these days to talk constructively about education and politics. These days, social media provides something of a safe haven to express one’s views in anonymity (or at least the comfort of being alone with the tech device of your choice) without the apparent hassle of research or basing expressions online in actual life or work experiences.
March 7, 2017 | by Andrea Mayfield and Jesse Smith
By Dr. Jesse Smith and Dr. Andrea Mayfield
Mississippi’s economy rises and falls on its ability to put people to work in jobs that pay family-sustaining wages. Yet, one in five working-age (25-65 years old) adults in our state is a high school dropout. The unemployment rate for recent high school dropouts hovers at 30 percent and most certainly contributes to Mississippi’s low workforce participation rate of 57 percent, the second lowest in the nation. Mississippi dropouts who do enter the workforce are typically destined to low skill, low wage jobs that offer little financial security.
