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The Ridgeland Campus of Holmes Community College held a ceremony to celebrate the graduating Emergency Medical Sciences Class on Aug. 1 in the McGowan Workforce Training Building. Sixteen students graduated from the program.

The Mississippi Board of Nursing Office of Nursing Workforce presented scholarships to nursing schools in Mississippi during their regular business meeting on July 26. Holmes Community College received $12,000 in funding which will help nursing students in the Associate Degree Nursing (ADN) and Practical Nursing (PN) programs. Holmes ADN Chair Dr. Alice Austin accepted the monies on behalf of the college.

Registration for the fall classes continues at Holmes Community College with on-campus registration days set for Aug. 13-15.

A new scholarship program through Mississippi Works is now available to Career-Technical Education students at Holmes Community College. The Mississippi Works Career Tech Scholarship Program provides tuition assistance to those who enroll in approved Career and Technical Education Certificate and Associate of Applied Science degree programs identified through sector analysis to meet the workforce demands of the state.

Antoine Gates, an instructor, Phi Theta Kappa adviser and Faculty Association advisor at Holmes Community College, recently completed his PhD in science and math education from the University of Southern Mississippi after defending his dissertation, “Faculty Interactions with Black Male Students at HBCUs and Community Colleges as Predictors of Academic Achievement in STEM.”

Christi Blair received her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) in December 2018 from the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Blair is the Practical Nursing Department Chair and also serves on the Instructional Affairs Committee.

The Holmes Community College Board of Trustees meeting scheduled for Friday on the Gulf Coast has been cancelled due to threat of severe weather.

Sometimes you can judge a book by its cover. In this case, Holmes Community College’s Horizons yearbook placed first in the cover category in the 2018-19 Mississippi Community and Junior College Press Association yearbook competition.

On June 24-29, 2019 students and advisors from the SkillsUSA Chapter of Holmes Community College Goodman Campus attended the National SkillsUSA Competition in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Holmes Alumni Association is gearing up for their District Dog Lunches in the nine counties of Holmes’s district in the month July. These events have been organized to help alumni network and socialize with other Alumni in the area. Lunches will be dutch and start at 11 AM at each location. All Alumni and friends are welcome.