Hinds Community College is a community college with its main campus located in Raymond, Mississippi. The Hinds Community College District includes Hinds County, Claiborne County, parts of Copiah County, Rankin County, and Warren County. With the registration of over 12,000 students on six campuses, it is the largest community college in Mississippi.
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Academics
Universities currently provide college-level academic programs for the first two years of a four-year degree program to be completed at a senior college or university. It also provides two-year degree programs, post-secondary career (formerly called "vocational"), secondary education (secondary school), and short-term training and continuing education.
Maps Hinds Community College
History
The college began as a small agricultural high school in 1917 with 117 students and eight faculty members. In his transformation into a junior college, he began offering college-level academic programs in 1922 and was accredited by the Association of Colleges and Schools of the South in 1926. During World War II years, vocational education curriculum was added to the college offering, and at late 1960s, technical degree programs added.
The branch locations in Jackson and Vicksburg opened in the 1970s. These branches mainly offer secondary school vocational education, although some college night courses are taught. Utica Junior College, a black history college whose history dates from 1903, joined Hinds Junior College in 1982 under a Federal court order as part of a class action racial discrimination suit.
The Pearl-Rankin Culture/Career Center opened in the city of Pearl in 1983, offering secondary vocational education and some college night courses. This branch later became Rankin Campus; now offers academic, technical, and career programs.
Jackson's Campus/Health Care Center opened in Jackson in 1984, offering treatment and other medical and dental programs. This center, along with an existing branch in Jackson, is known as the Jackson Campus. A Resource and Economic Development Coordination Unit (RCU) was added in 1988 at Raymond, and the Eagle Ridge Conference Center was opened in 1996 under the RCU administration. The Vicksburg branch became Vicksburg Campus in 2002 and now offers a college level program.
Hinds Junior College changed its name to Hinds Community College in 1987; that year 13 of 14 other two-year public colleges of Mississippi also adopted the label "community". Hinds was associated with another two-year college through College Community Network (CCN) in 1994. The system allows courses to be offered at one college location while students can participate in courses at several other college locations using video conferencing. All two-year state universities form the Mississippi Virtual Community College (MVCC) in 1999 to offer courses to students via the Internet.
Campus
- Raymond's Campus, Raymond
- Academic/Technical Center, Jackson
- Nursing/Allied Health Center, Jackson
- Rankin Campus, Pearl
- Utica Campus, Utica
- Campus of Vicksburg-Warren, Vicksburg
- Aviation/Aviation Commercial Maintenance, John Bell Williams Airport, Raymond
Hinds High School of Agriculture, on the Utica campus, was previously operated by a community college.
Student activity
Athletics
Colleges sponsor soccer, basketball, baseball, golf, track, tennis, and soccer for men, and soccer, basketball, tennis, and softball programs for women. The soccer, baseball and softball fields are on the Raymond campus; the arena is on the Utica campus.
Art
Hinds offers dance classes, arts, ceramics, and theater.
Their dance classes are considered good and Montage, dance group, holds a show every semester.
Band
The band is considered good and has been asked to perform in France.
Famous Alumni
- Anquan Boldin, wide NFL receiver
- Chad Bradford, MLB player
- Corey Bradford, an NFL player
- Phil Bryant, 64th Mississippi Gov.
- Malcolm Butler, NFL player
- John Copeland, NFL player
- Beasley Denson, former Chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
- Jeff Henderson, Olympic 2016 Gold Medalist in the long jump
- Faith Hill, country music singer
- Grady Jackson, NFL player
- Trell Kimmons, sprinter
- Earl Leggett, NFL player
- Leon Lett, Dallas Cowboys Pro Bowl player
- Scott Mateer, former songwriter and radio disc jockey
- Ryan McBean, an NFL player
- Mary Ann Mobley, Miss America 1959 - The first Mississippian to win a beauty contest
- Michael Myers, an NFL player
- Derek Newton, NFL player
- Greg Peterson, an NFL player
- Thomas Hal Phillips, writer, screenwriter, and actor
- Pat Rapp, MLB player
- Fred Smoot, an NFL player
- T. T. Toliver, American footballer
- Marvin Washington, end of defensive NFL
- John Bell Williams, former Mississippi Governor
- Jeremy Williams, an American football player of Canada
- Zig Ziglar, author of motivational speaker book
References
Additional readings
- Hinds Community College. History of Hinds Community College . August 16, 2006.
External links
- Official website
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