Sports

Transformation has taken place in Utica

By Tim Ward chopitupsports.com For years, the only sport that received considerable attention at Hinds Community College was football. Deservedly so. Coach Gene Murphy built the program to national prominence. Players would leave Hinds to […]

Education

Bell Honored For His Good Deeds

The Mississippi Link Newswire
UTICA –Mr. Charles Bell, Hinds Community College-Utica Campus student union director and facilities coordinator, has received a Community Service Leadership Certificate of Appreciation for the services of dedicated persons from the Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury. For four months, January-April, Bell volunteered his service in helping to complete 97 income tax returns… […]

Education

MDCC Receives $3.6M in Federal Grants

Mississippi Delta Community College (MDCC) was recently awarded two grants totaling $3,650,000 from the U.S. Department of Education through the Predominately Black Institutions (PBI) Program.

MDCC will receive a minimum of $250,000 per year for five years under the funding formula portion of the program. […]

Education

Former education leader dies at 86

LAKE – (AP) E.E. “Tad” Thrash, who led Mississippi’s higher education system for 19 years as it struggled with desegregation issues related to historic black colleges, died Tuesday, May 2. He was 86. Officials with […]