- State's community colleges face familiar situation: less money
Wayne Stonecypher, Ph.D., is beginning his third year as chief of Mississippi's State Board for Community and Junior Colleges (SBCJC) with a long to-do list. The Lucedale native has been busy finding ways to do more with less, adapting to deep budget cuts the Mississippi Legislature has imposed on the ......
- Engineering tech program grads getting on the job
The engineering technology program at Holmes Community College has a goal of placing 85% of its graduates who aren't continuing on to a four-year college into jobs. But, in fact, that placement rate is usually 100% for graduates who want to immediately enter the workforce. "We don't have enough people ......
- TOP 40 Under 40: Robert Paul Miller
38, Career and Technical Education Dean, East Mississippi Community College, in Mayhew. Four years ago, Paul Miller faced a personal crisis. After a routine check-up, he was diagnosed with coronary artery disease. Even though he was only 34, Miller was on the verge of a heart attack. "I immediately underwent ......
- MISSISSIPPI'S 50 Leading Business Women: Patsy Orr MAyo is director of the Hinds Community College Workforce Training Center in Raymond
Instead of backpacking through Europe, Patsy Mayo headed to snowycapped mountains for an adventure after college. "In 1969, I sold everything I possessed except what I could pack in a footlocker and went to Alaska without a job," said Mayo. "Bob, my husband of 30 years, and I started dating ......
- Lawmakers mull proposed budget cuts
Editor's note: This is the third and final story in a series examining proposed cuts to Mississippi community college workforce training programs and the subsequent impact on the state's economy. Mississippi lawmakers say they empathize with business and education leaders about the plight of workforce training funds and are searching ......
- Firms turn to collaboration on design projects
When legislation passed by state lawmakers in October allowed casinos to build on solid ground, offering developers opportunities to rebuild larger, resort-type facilities, Jackson-based Pale and Associates Architects seized the opportunity to better serve clients on the Mississippi Gulf Coast with redevelopment projects by partnering with another firm, Morris Architects ......
- Top 40 Under 40: Gary Gordon "G.G." Ferguson
JACKSON - Gary Gordon "G.G." Ferguson, 32, president of Ferguson & Associates Architects, graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in engineering. But he had always been interested in fine arts, and found that he missed having a creative outlet. That led him to continue school to obtain ......