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Academic and technical students with exemplary quality point averages are recognized at the end of the fall and spring semesters by being named to the President’s or Dean’s list. To be eligible for such recognition a student must be enrolled in at least twelve semester hours.

Lisa Anglin, a mathematics instructor, and Hallie Westbrook of Pickens, an architectural engineering and accounting student, have been named Holmes Community College’s honorees for the Legislature’s HEADWAE (Higher Education Appreciation Day – Working for Academic Excellence) program for 2019.

Holmes Community College partnered with Ingalls Shipbuilding in the fall for a 14-week shipfitting class at the Attala Center in Kosciusko. The class finished last week, and after Ingalls’ representatives administered one final test, all class members were offered jobs and began employment at Ingalls this week. The remaining members were offered jobs with local companies.

Holmes Community College registration for the spring term began on Nov. 5. The college offers transferable academic courses, the Associate of Arts degree, the Associate of Applied Science degree, technical certificates and career certificates, as well as workforce training.

November 8 is Military Appreciation Night at Holmes Community College. All military (both active and retired) will be admitted free to tomorrow night’s basketball games at 6/8 p.m. in Frank Branch Coliseum.

Holmes Community College’s paralegal program was recently ranked No. 5 in the 2019 Most Affordable Online Colleges listing. The full list, compiled by SR Education Group, can be found at their website, https://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/degrees/paralegal?utm_source=IMAP&utm_medium=email#most-affordable-associate.

The Holmes Community College Workforce Development Division is offering computer-related community classes this fall on the Goodman Campus.

A scholarship honoring the late Bobby Eugene and JoAnn Robertson Killebrew is being established at Holmes Community College. The Killebrews lived in Durant until 1976, and thereafter in Forest before Mrs. Killebrew passed away in 2013 and Mr. Killebrew in 2016.

Boswell Media’s “Cruisin for a Cure” truck made a stop at the Attala Center in Kosciusko last week promoting Breast Cancer Awareness in Attala and surrounding counties.

Holmes Community College Workforce Development is offering a variety of professional and personal development courses during the fall of 2018. All courses will be held in the Media Room of the D.P. “Pat” McGowan Workforce Training Center on the Ridgeland Campus.