Hinds Community College

Community college in Raymond, Mississippi, U.S.

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Hinds Community College is a public community college with its main campus in Raymond, Mississippi, United States and branches in Jackson, Pearl, Utica, and Vicksburg. The Hinds Community College District includes Hinds County, Claiborne County, part of Copiah County, Rankin County, and Warren County. With an enrollment of over 12,000 students at six campuses, it is the largest community college in Mississippi.

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 Vicksburg were opened in the 1970s. These branches primarily offered high school vocational education, though some college-level night courses were taught. Utica Junior College, a historically black college whose history dates to 1903, merged with Hinds Junior College in 1982 under Federal court order as part of a class action racial discrimination lawsuit.

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 Community College Network (CCN) in 1994. This system allows a course to be offered at one college location while students may participate in the course at several other college locations by means of video conferencing. All of the state public two-year colleges formed the Mississippi Virtual Community College (MVCC) in 1999 to offer courses to students over the Internet.

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

Hinds Agricultural High School, at the Utica campus, was previously operated by the community college.^[4]

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
Phil Bryant, 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
John Bell Williams, 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.
^ Sewell, George A.; Dwight, Margaret L. (November 1984). Mississippi Black History Makers. ISBN 9781604733907.
^ College address: "Utica 34175 Miss. 18 West Utica, MS 39175-9599" - Compare to: "2010 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Utica town, MS" (PDF). 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.

External links

Official website

Public colleges and universities in Mississippi

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Public institutions	Alabama A&M Alabama State Albany State Alcorn State Arkansas–Pine Bluff Bishop State CC Bluefield State Bowie State Central State Cheyney Coahoma CC Coppin State Delaware State Elizabeth City State Fayetteville State Florida A&M Fort Valley State Gadsden State CC Grambling State Harris–Stowe Hinds CC Jackson State Kentucky State Langston Lincoln, Missouri Lincoln, Pennsylvania Maryland, Eastern Shore Mississippi Valley State Morgan State Norfolk State North Carolina A&T North Carolina Central Prairie View A&M Savannah State Shelton State CC South Carolina State Southern Southern–New Orleans Southern–Shreveport Tennessee State Texas Southern UDC UVI Virginia State West Virginia State Winston-Salem State
Private institutions	Allen Arkansas Baptist Barber–Scotia Benedict Bennett Bethune–Cookman Claflin Clark Atlanta Dillard Edward Waters Fisk Florida Memorial University Hampton Howard Huston–Tillotson Interdenominational Theological Center Jarvis Christian Johnson C. Smith Knoxville Lane LeMoyne–Owen Livingstone Meharry Miles Morehouse Morehouse School of Medicine Morris Brown Morris New Orleans University Oakwood Paine Paul Quinn Pensole Lewis Philander Smith Rust Selma Shaw Simmons College (Ky.) Southwestern Christian Spelman Stillman St. Augustine's Talladega Texas College Tougaloo Tuskegee Virginia Union Virginia University Voorhees Wilberforce Wiley Xavier (Louisiana)
Defunct institutions	Bishop Booker T. Washington Carver Central Mississippi College Collier-Blocker Concordia Alabama Daniel Payne Frelinghuysen Georgia Baptist Gibbs Guadalupe Hampton Haygood Seminary Immanuel Lutheran Jackson Johnson Kittrell Lincoln Junior College Luther Mississippi Industrial College Morristown Mount Hermon Female Seminary Roosevelt Rosenwald Saint Paul's Storer Straight Suwannee River Volusia County Western
Consortia	Atlanta University Center Florida's Black Junior Colleges Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Southwestern Athletic Conference Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Gulf Coast Athletic Conference

City of Jackson

Areas

Tougaloo

Education

Primary & secondary	Jackson Public School District Callaway HS Forest Hill HS Jim Hill HS Lanier HS Murrah HS Provine HS Wingfield HS Madison County School District Mississippi School for the Blind Mississippi School for the Deaf Hillcrest Christian School Jackson Academy St. Andrew's Episcopal School Lower school Closed: Central HS
Former schools	Veritas School (moved to Ridgeland, later closed)
Tertiary	Jackson State University see template Tougaloo College Hinds Community College Some campuses are in Jackson Belhaven University Millsaps College Mississippi College School of Law Wesley Biblical Seminary
Libraries	Jackson/Hinds Library System