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Money Talks: Community Colleges


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One way to increase your earning potential may be attending a Community College. Who are they for? Those right out of college? Those who may have started but not finished a degree? Someone wanting to retrain for a new career? We’ll learn today with our guest Kell Smith, Interim-Executive Director for the Mississippi Community College Board.


(601) 432-6518 https://www.mccb.edu/

[email protected]


Accelerate Mississippi: https://acceleratems.org/


If you cheer for an educational institution because of their mascots, we’d like you to know the Mississippi Community Colleges have 2 Tigers, 2 Eagles, 2 Bulldogs, a Lion a Bobcat and a Wildcat; a Bear and a Wolfpack; plus Indians, Rangers, Trojans, and Warriors.


Some of Mississippi Community Colleges famous students?

  • American singer-songwriter, Jimmy Buffett
  • engineer and former NASA astronaut Fred Haise
  • world record holder for long jump and Olympian Brittney Reese
  • award winning immunologist Max Dale Cooper
  • United States federal judge The Honorable Michael P. Mills
  • and financial expert Dr. Nancy Lottridge-Anderson


On Thursday, April 14th MPB's Auto Correct had the owner of Classic Restoration on the show. Mike Martin talked about how he attended Holmes Community College to learn skills that allowed him to turn his car hobby into a business. http://autocorrect.mpbonline.org/episodes/auto-correct-classics


Questions:

  • positive experience with community colleges
  • faculty
  • one day training


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