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Community Arts Center opens at Perkinston Campus

January 8, 2015
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Community Arts Center opens at Perkinston Campus

The ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on November 19 for the Community Arts Center at MGCCC’s Perkinston Campus. Renovation was completed during the fall. The center is part of a larger community-arts project and will be utilized to promote a creative economy through community arts-based projects and programming. It will provide a place for students...
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MGCCC president Dr. Mary S. Graham selected for state business award

January 8, 2015
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MGCCC president Dr. Mary S. Graham selected for state business award

Dr. Mary S. Graham, president of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, was selected as one of the 50 Leading Business Women in Mississippi by the Mississippi Business Journal.  Those selected are considered the most powerful, influential business leaders in Mississippi who are making a significant impact on the economy. “It has been a wonderful opportunity to...
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MSU College of Engineering Information Session attracts large crowd

January 8, 2015
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MSU College of Engineering Information Session attracts large crowd

Representatives from Mississippi State University’s James Worth Bagley College of Engineering held an Information Session at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s Jackson County Campus on Thursday, Nov. 6. More than 150 students and community members attended the event to find out more about the engineering degrees that will be offered at the campus, beginning...
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MGCCC selected as 2015 STEM Jobs Approved College

January 8, 2015
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MGCCC selected as 2015 STEM Jobs Approved College

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College was named to the 2015 Stem Jobs Approved College list by Victory Media.  Gulf Coast is the only Mississippi community college on the list and one of only two higher education institutions in the state selected. The inaugural list is the first of its kind to rate universities, colleges,...
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Three Former Bulldogs Face Off in the NFL Playoffs

January 8, 2015
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This Saturday, Jan. 10, at 3:35 p.m. Central Time, when the New England Patriots host the Baltimore Ravens in the first round of the AFC divisional playoffs, there will be three great reasons for folks from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College to watch – Terrence Cody, Tramain Jacobs and Chris White. All three former...
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Thirty-four graduate from MGCCC’s 2014 Gulf Coast Youth Leadership program

January 8, 2015
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Thirty-four graduate from MGCCC’s 2014 Gulf Coast Youth Leadership program

Thirty-four students successfully completed the year-long program, which includes visits to Keesler Air Force Base, tours of various businesses and industry, meal-etiquette lessons and STEM projects. “It has been an honor and a pleasure directing these students this past year,” Mollie Barger, MGCCC’s coordinator of Recruitment and Student Engagement, said. “While the purpose of...
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MGCCC Homecoming

October 9, 2014
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MGCCC Homecoming

Join us for the 2014 MGCCC Homecoming to be held October 16-18. Highlights of this year’s festivities include: Recognition of Alumni and Athletic Hall of Fame, Sam Owen Award, Spirit of Gulf Coast and Bulldog Hall of Honor honorees at a dinner and awards ceremony on October 16 at 7 p.m. at the Golden...
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Kudos!

October 5, 2014
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Kudos!

  Teresa Wells, Language Arts instructor at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s Jefferson Davis Campus, has been selected as a Phi Theta Kappa Faculty Scholar.  Faculty Scholars serve as seminar leaders at Phi Theta Kappa’s Annual Honors Institute that will be held at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque during June 2015. Faculty...
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MGCCC instructors chosen 2014 Humanities Teachers of the Year

October 4, 2014
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Three MGCCC instructors have been chosen 2014 Humanities Teachers of the Year.  Each honoree will receive a cash prize from the Mississippi Humanities Council and will be honored at a banquet in their honor on Feb. 13, 2015,  in Jackson. During the months of October and November, each instructor made presentations as part of their award...
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Notes

September 5, 2014
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Wireless upgrades have reached completion in residence halls, academic and most staff buildings on the Perkinston Campus. The JD Fine Arts Department invites you to experience the current gallery exhibit, Scenes of a Scene, by Pascagoula artist, Robby Amonette.  The exhibit includes several large scale finished paintings, but the show is predominately made up of “action...
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