Hinds Community College
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Hinds Community College is a
Academics
The college currently provides academic college-level courses for the first two years of four-year degree programs that must be completed at senior colleges or universities. It also provides two-year technical degree programs, post-secondary career (formerly called "vocational") programs, secondary (high-school) career education, and short-term training and continuing education.
History
The Utica campus of Hinds Community College, formerly "Utica Junior College', was founded in 1903 as Utica Normal and Industrial Institute. William H. Holtzclaw helped establish it.[2] and it began as a small agricultural high school in 1917 with 117 students and eight faculty members. In its transformation into a junior college, it began offering college-level academic courses in 1922 and was accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in 1926.
During the World War II years, a vocational education curriculum was added to the college's offerings, and in the late 1960s, technical degree programs were added.
Branch locations in Jackson and
The Pearl-Rankin Vocational/Career Center was opened in the city of Pearl in 1983, offering high school vocational education and some college-level night courses. This branch later became the Rankin Campus; it now offers academic, technical, and career programs.
The Nursing Allied Health Center was opened in Jackson in 1984, offering nursing and other medical and dental programs. This center, together with the existing branch in Jackson, became known as the Jackson Campus. A Resource and Coordinating Unit for Economic Development (RCU) was added in 1988 in Raymond, and the Eagle Ridge Conference Center was opened in 1996 under the administration of the RCU. The Vicksburg branch became the Vicksburg Campus in 2002 and now offers college-level programs.
Hinds Junior College changed its name to Hinds Community College in 1987; that year 13 of the 14 other Mississippi public two-year colleges also adopted the "community" label. Hinds linked up with other two-year colleges by means of the
Campuses
- Raymond Campus, Raymond
- Jackson Campus
- Nursing Allied Health Center
- Rankin Campus, Pearl
- Utica Campus, unincorporated Hinds County, south of Utica[3]
- Vicksburg-Warren Campus, Vicksburg
- Aviation Maintenance/Commercial Aviation, John Bell Williams Airport, Raymond
Notable alumni
- Maurice Black, legislator, Assistant Attorney General of Mississippi
- Anquan Boldin, professional football player
- Chad Bradford, professional baseball player
- Corey Bradford, professional football player
- 64th Governor of Mississippi
- Malcolm Butler, professional football player
- John Copeland, professional football player
- Beasley Denson, former Tribal Chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
- Antonio Gibson, professional football player
- Jeff Henderson, 2016 Rio Olympics Gold Medalist in long jump
- Faith Hill, Country music singer
- John Hightower, professional football player
- Grady Jackson, professional football player
- Rory Johnson, professional football player
- Tommy Kelly, professional football player
- Trell Kimmons, sprinter
- Earl Leggett, professional football player
- Leon Lett, professional football player
- Ryan McBean, professional football player
- Jerome McDougle, professional football player
- Mary Ann Mobley, Miss America 1959 - first Mississippian to win beauty pageant
- Joseph G. Moss, state legislator and judge for whom the school's athletic field is named
- Michael Myers, professional football player
- Derek Newton, professional football player
- Greg Peterson, professional football player
- Thomas Hal Phillips, author, screenwriter, and actor
- Pat Rapp, professional baseball player
- Fred Smoot, professional football player
- T. T. Toliver, professional football player
- Charvarius Ward, professional football player
- Marvin Washington, professional football player
- Jeremy Williams, professional football player
- former Governor of Mississippi
- Zig Ziglar, motivational speaker and author
References
- ^ Hayden, Cathy (April 16, 2020). "Hinds CC Board of Trustees names new president". Retrieved 27 November 2020.
- ISBN 9781604733907.
- U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2020-07-04. - The college campus is not in the Utica city limits.
- ^ "State education board recommends closing one agriculture school, converting one and keeping one". Associated Press at gulflive.com. 2012-12-20. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
Further reading
- Hinds Community College. History of Hinds Community College. 16 August 2006.