Author: Barin Von Foregger

Holmes Community College held a ribbon-cutting and open house for The Attala Center on Thursday, Nov. 19.

Holmes Community College will hold a ribbon-cutting and open house for The Attala Center on Thursday, Nov. 19, at 10:30 a.m.

Holmes Community College English and Foreign Language department chair and Ridgeland instructor Steve Deaton was featured on the Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) Mississippi Arts Hour, which aired Sunday, Nov. 1.

Holmes Community College Ridgeland Campus’ Blair Booker, branch librarian for Adcock Library, recently received the 2015 Mississippi Library Association (MLA) Past President’s Award.

The Holmes Community College Magnolia GOLD program is proud to announce that it will be expanding to the Ridgeland Campus in the spring of 2016.

Holmes Community College’s Dr. Stacey Coulter, English instructor on the Ridgeland Campus, and Taylor Adcock of Sallis, a sophomore pre-pharmacy student on the Goodman Campus, were among 68 outstanding faculty and students from 34 Mississippi public and private universities and colleges chosen to be honored by the Mississippi Legislature at the 29th Annual Higher Education Appreciation Day – Working for Academic Excellence (HEADWAE).

Dr. Troy Milliken took several Holmes Community College science majors from the Ridgeland Campus to visit the Polymer Science and Engineering program at The University of Southern Mississippi on Friday, Oct 30.

Holmes Community College held voter registration drives on all three of the main campuses during the month of September, encouraging students to vote in the Nov. 3 elections.

Holmes Community College was recently awarded Best College, Best Place to Work, and Holmes instructor Katrina Myricks was named Best Teacher in the 2015 Clarion Ledger Best of the Best contest.

On October 13, several Holmes Community College Ridgeland Campus students, along with African American Literature Instructor Arnetra Pleas and English Instructor Mary Brantley, had the opportunity to hear Dr. Henry Louis Gates speak at the historic Galloway United Methodist Church in downtown Jackson.