Tiger Talk Podcast by Northeast Mississippi Community College

In this seventy-second (72nd) edition of the TigerTalk podcast presented by Northeast Mississippi Community College, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes Northeast nursing students Blayne Carr and Emmalee Hite to the podcast along with nursing instructors Debbie Hazel-Lambert and Beth Dawson. In the first half of the podcast, nursing students Blayne Carr and Emmalee Hite join Kollmeyer to talk about their capstone projects for their first year of nursing school where each group of prospective nurses had to make an informative commercial on a given topic and with National Mental Health Month falling during May...one of those topics was suicide. Carr's group chose to focus on gate-way drugs and how teen-agers get their hands on such drugs and what it can lead to while Hite's group took on the idea of suicide and how mental illness and other factors play a role into suicide. In the second half of the podcast, instructors Hazel-Lambert and Dawson join the show to talk about National Mental Health Month and also how the nursing program at Northeast stays up-to-date with its curriculum and the different ways that they incorporate technology in the classroom. Kollmeyer's wrap up of the events for the 2019 Spring Semester including graduations and an all-star football game is sandwiched between the two main interviews and contains one of the most comprehensive lists of events and happenings on the Northeast campus for the upcoming week, so if you have an event or happening on campus and want to be part of the Tiger Talk podcast, reach out to us. If you haven't subscribed to the podcast, now would be a good time to subscribe to stay up-to-date on all the happenings on the Northeast campuses and hear in-depth interviews with guests each week. Don't forget to follow the Northeast TigerTalk podcast on Facebook at http:.//www.facebook.com/nemcctigertalk, on Twitter at @nemcctigertalk or listen to all of our past episodes at http://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com

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For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

In this seventy-first (71st) edition of the TigerTalk podcast presented by Northeast Mississippi Community College, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes Northeast senior research associate Michael Byrd, Northeast student Roxanna Tucker and college navigator Andrea Hardin to the podcast. Byrd opens up about the office of institutional research and all the continuous planning that goes on behind the scenes that the office does to make the college successful. It's not just collecting data in the office of institutional research. It's about how people interpret that data and how said data can be used to make Northeast an even better community college -- from student life to class surveys to graduation surveys, all that data is compiled to help Northeast improve. In a rare double interview, Kollmeyer welcomes Northeast student Roxanna Tucker and college navigator Andrea Hardin to the podcast in the second half of the show. Tucker talks about what all she went through in life before finding salvation and Northeast and it is through salvation that she has been able to turn her life around and become a student at Northeast. Tucker obtained her GED from Northeast, is a Second Chance student and has just completed her first semester as a college student and plans to major in journalism and get her four-year degree. Hardin has been Tucker's navigator and is on hand to talk about the process that aided Tucker into becoming successful. In addition to talking about how to enroll in the Northeast GED programs, Mi-BEST or Smart Start programs, Hardin points out that most of the programs offered are offered at free or little cost to the student. Kollmeyer's wrap up of the events for the 2019 Spring Semester is sandwiched between the two interviews and contains one of the most comprehensive lists of events and happenings on the Northeast campus for the upcoming week, so if you have an event or happening on campus and want to be part of the Tiger Talk podcast, reach out to us. If you haven't subscribed to the podcast, now would be a good time to subscribe to stay up-to-date on all the happenings on the Northeast campuses and hear in-depth interviews with guests each week. Don't forget to follow the Northeast TigerTalk podcast on Facebook at http:.//www.facebook.com/nemcctigertalk, on Twitter at @nemcctigertalk or listen to all of our past episodes at http://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

In this seventieth (70th) edition of the TigerTalk podcast presented by Northeast Mississippi Community College, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes Northeast student Dora Stricklin to the podcast to tell her story about overcoming tragedy and life events to graduate with not just one, two...but three degrees from Northeast when she walks at graduation in May. Stricklin dropped out of school in the seventh grade and decided to make a change for the better but not before life threw her a few more curveballs along the way -- including the death of her father on her first day of class at Northeast. Nothing slowed down Stricklin and through determination and encouragement from her husband and the staff in the NEMCC Adult Basic Education department along with many Northeast faculty and staff members, Stricklin will walk across the stage in the Bonner Arnold Coliseum in May as a college graduate. In the second half of the podcast, Northeast offensive coordinator Doug Saylor stops in to give the low down on the Northeast Tiger football golf tournament coming up in May at Hillandale Country Club in Corinth. The golf tournament, which is one of the football team's biggest fund-raisers, is seeing a few changes this year from the members of the Tiger family and plans to be a splendid day out on the links of one of the top golf courses in the college's five-county district. Set for May 3, there are still spots left in the tournament and this gives the football team a way to raise funds while recognizing those who give to the program as well. Kollmeyer wraps up this week's podcast with one of the most comprehensive lists of events and happenings on the Northeast campus for the upcoming week, so if you have an event or happening on campus and want to be part of the Tiger Talk podcast, reach out to us. If you haven't subscribed to the podcast, now would be a good time to subscribe to stay up-to-date on all the happenings on the Northeast campuses and hear in-depth interviews with guests each week. Don't forget to follow the Northeast TigerTalk podcast on Facebook at http:.//www.facebook.com/nemcctigertalk, on Twitter at @nemcctigertalk or listen to all of our past episodes at http://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

Just like bonus points here’s a Bonus track of the Tiger Talk Podcast...It's the end of the semester and listeners of the Tiger Talk podcast are in for a real treat as we open up a bonus track of events that are happening in the next 10 days to close out the 2019 spring semester. Listen in as host Will Kollmeyer goes in depth with a variety of events on campus and helps people understand what all is happening at Northeast this week. It's an amazing time to be a Tiger and this 12-minute piece does it. From reminders to turn in your library books to upcoming athletic events to our choir concert in Corinth for the Corinth Music Club, this bonus track has it all. If you haven't subscribed to the podcast, now would be a good time to subscribe to stay up-to-date on all the happenings on the Northeast campuses and hear in-depth interviews with guests each week. Don't forget to follow the Northeast TigerTalk podcast on Facebook at http:.//www.facebook.com/nemcctigertalk, on Twitter at @nemcctigertalk or listen to all of our past episodes at http://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

In this sixty-ninth (69th) edition of the TigerTalk podcast presented by Northeast Mississippi Community College, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes Northeast vice president of instruction Dr. Michelle Baragona back to the podcast after a short hiatus. Baragona brings good news to Tiger Nation as she announces that the college is one of the nation's top leaders in education when it comes to technology. In just a few short years, the college has gone from seeing under 30 percent of its classes using Open Educational Resources to over two-thirds of its classes using OER resources and Northeast now has nearly 95 percent of its classes using some form of digital resource or the other. Baragona goes over what the OER and iPad initiative means to the college and also explains that it was the OER initiative that made it possible for Northeast to have its iPad 1:1 initiative. Through the use of OER materials and digital resources in the classroom, Northeast has been able to save students nearly $5 million over the last few years. In the second half of the podcast, Northeast co-director of the Northeast child care center Bonita Crump stops by to talk about the center's open house on Wednesday from 9 a.m. until noon on the first floor of Waller Hall and also about her forty years at Northeast. Crump points out to the single or working parent how important the childcare center is for a student returning to get their education and also lists the requirements for children to be in the child care at Northeast. In her 40-year reflection, Crump mentions the changes that she has seen at the college and how technology has advanced from her first few years at Northeast from the college having one printer/copier on campus in Stringer/Cartwright Hall to the technological advancement that we have today. Crump also recalls the bus transportation system that the college had in its first few decades on campus. Between the two interviews, Kollmeyer has one of the most comprehensive lists of events and happenings on the Northeast campus for the upcoming week, so if you have an event or happening on campus and want to be part of the Tiger Talk podcast, reach out to us. If you haven't subscribed to the podcast, now would be a good time to subscribe to stay up-to-date on all the happenings on the Northeast campuses and hear in-depth interviews with guests each week. Don't forget to follow the Northeast TigerTalk podcast on Facebook at http:.//www.facebook.com/nemcctigertalk, on Twitter at @nemcctigertalk or listen to all of our past episodes at http://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

In this sixty-eighth (68th) edition of the TigerTalk podcast presented by Northeast Mississippi Community College, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes Northeast business, economics and statistics instructor John Yarber to the podcast to talk about the transformation that technology...especially the iPad has had in his classroom. Yarber, who has been at the cutting-edge of technology since coming to Northeast 23 years ago, has seen a dramatic increase in the success and understanding of his students since the addition of technology in the classroom. Yarber talks about being one of the first three instructors to embrace teaching online and has recently flipped his classroom to help students better understand the world of business, marco- and micro-economics as well as statistics. Yarber gives a rundown through the history of technology in the classroom from no electronics, to laptops, to phones and finally to iPads that revolutionized the learning environment for his subjects. In the second half of the podcast, Northeast career technical counselor Carrie Cobb stops by the podcast to talk about the upcoming Northeast Job Fair on Tuesday, April 23. With over 60 employers already signed up for the event, the Northeast Job Fair is destined to be one of the biggest in school history. Not only is the job fair open to students but it is open to NEMCC alumni as well along with members of the community. Cobb talks about some of the employers that will be coming to this year's job fair such as leaders in business, healthcare and education..all wanting access to the talented students that Northeast is producing. Kollmeyer wraps up this week's podcast with one of the most comprehensive lists of events and happenings on the Northeast campus for the upcoming week, so if you have an event or happening on campus and want to be part of the Tiger Talk podcast, reach out to us. If you haven't subscribed to the podcast, now would be a good time to subscribe to stay up-to-date on all the happenings on the Northeast campuses and hear in-depth interviews with guests each week. Don't forget to follow the Northeast TigerTalk podcast on Facebook at http:.//www.facebook.com/nemcctigertalk, on Twitter at @nemcctigertalk or listen to all of our past episodes at http://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

In this sixty-seventh (67th) edition of the TigerTalk podcast presented by Northeast Mississippi Community College, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes Northeast women's basketball coach and the chair of our diversity committee Brenda Mayes to campus to talk about one of the committee's most important days of the year -- Diversity Day, which is scheduled for Tuesday, April 9 on the quad in front of the Ramsey Student Services Building. As part of Diversity Day, students will see everything that the college has to offer with booths set up from every club and organization on campus, Northeast director of bands Bryan Mitchell is in charge of the entertainment while Sodexo will be serving lunch on the lawn that day. Robert Walker and his staff from the Burgess Fitness Center will also be set up during Diversity Day to help students become more active in their campus. In the second half of the podcast, Northeast's Mr. and Miss Northeast Mississippi Community College Weston Coggin of Booneville and Avaline Morris of Burnsville join Kollmeyer to talk about the honor of being selected for the top award at the college and also talk about their experience at Northeast as each one is slated to graduate in May and head off into the workforce and to a four-year university, respectively. Kollmeyer wraps up this week's podcast with one of the most comprehensive lists of events and happenings on the Northeast campus for the upcoming week, so if you have an event or happening on campus and want to be part of the Tiger Talk podcast, reach out to us. If you haven't subscribed to the podcast, now would be a good time to subscribe to stay up-to-date on all the happenings on the Northeast campuses and hear in-depth interviews with guests each week. Don't forget to follow the Northeast TigerTalk podcast on Facebook at http:.//www.facebook.com/nemcctigertalk, on Twitter at @nemcctigertalk or listen to all of our past episodes at http://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.fm

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

In this sixty-sixth (66th) edition of the TigerTalk podcast presented by Northeast Mississippi Community College, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes the reigning Mississippi Virtual Community College Instructor of the Year Carlena Benjamin back to the podcast. Benjamin recently received the honor at the Creating Futures Through Technology Conference on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Benjamin talks about the innovation that she has brought to her classroom and about some of the comments that supported her nomination for the award. In addition to the award, Benjamin talks about time management, where she is one of the top innovators on campus in the classroom, a co-director of the NEMCC Honors Institute, a wife and mother of two and finishing up her doctorate degree through Delta State University this week. In the second half of the podcast, Northeast jazz band director Jason Beghtol joins the podcast to talk about the Northeast Jazz Band Concert where he will have seven guest artists in attendance at the event. With seven guest artists, six will be NEMCC alumni while the seventh will be as Beghtol puts it, 'an adopted Tiger.' Kollmeyer wraps up this week's podcast with one of the most comprehensive lists of events and happenings on the Northeast campus for the upcoming week, so if you have an event or happening on campus and want to be part of the Tiger Talk podcast, reach out to us. If you haven't subscribed to the podcast, now would be a good time to subscribe to stay up-to-date on all the happenings on the Northeast campuses and hear in-depth interviews with guests each week. Don't forget to follow the Northeast TigerTalk podcast on Facebook at http:.//www.facebook.com/nemcctigertalk, on Twitter at @nemcctigertalk or listen to all of our past episodes at http://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.fm

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

In this sixty-fifth (65th) edition of the TigerTalk podcast presented by Northeast Mississippi Community College, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes NEMCC's director of bands and percussion instructor Bryan Mitchell to the podcast for his sixth appearance on the show as Mitchell talks about the Showband from Tigerland and what the 300-person band does during the spring semester following marching season in the fall. Mitchell gives a preview of the upcoming Indoor Winter Guard Competition to be held in the Bonner Arnold Coliseum on Friday, March 22 and talks about the inaugural Dance Clinic in the Bonner Arnold Coliseum on Saturday, March 23. Mitchell also talks about the upcoming Spring Band Showcase which features many of the Showband from Tigerland students in the symphonic, concert and jazz bands along with a performance from the NEMCC pom squad and indoor winter guard. In the second half of the podcast, Northeast vice president for institutional advancement and the executive director of the Northeast Development Foundation and Alumni Association D. Patrick Eaton makes a stop on the podcast -- his first since September 11, 2018 -- as Eaton discusses breaking news from the Development Foundation as they have extended their scholarship deadline to the end of this week -- Friday, March 22 instead of March 15. In addition to breaking the news of the scholarship deadline extension, Eaton talks about all the different ways to give to the Development Foundation and how one can become a member of the NEMCC Alumni Association for as little as $25 a year. Eaton gives an update on the Field of Dreams campaign and lists off a pair of major donors to the project that will let the Field of Dreams become an even better venue than what was originally planned with massive video boards to enhance the experience of the games. With graduation fast approaching, Eaton also talks about all the ways that the Foundation can help students and even gives some tips on how students can benefit from the process by filling out three minor forms that help their chances with financial aid, MTAG and the tuition guarantee program. Kollmeyer comes between the two main interviews with one of the most comprehensive lists of events and happenings on the Northeast campus for the upcoming week, so if you have an event or happening on campus and want to be part of the Tiger Talk podcast, reach out to us. If you haven't subscribed to the podcast, now would be a good time to subscribe to stay up-to-date on all the happenings on the Northeast campuses and hear in-depth interviews with guests each week. Don't forget to follow the Northeast TigerTalk podcast on Facebook at http:.//www.facebook.com/nemcctigertalk, on Twitter at @nemcctigertalk or listen to all of our past episodes at http://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.fm

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.

In this sixty-fourth (64th) edition of the TigerTalk podcast presented by Northeast Mississippi Community College, host Will Kollmeyer welcomes NEMCC's director of institutional effectiveness Amber Nelms to the podcast to talk about BRIDGES - a new program at Northeast that helps the college connect with K-12 schools in its area along with the community that it serves. Nelms talks about the mission and vision for BRIDGES and how she sees the program advancing in the next few months and years. In addition to announcing the BRIDGES program, Nelms lets listeners know that if they attend the inaugural BRIDGES conference on June 11 that they will receive a reduced rate to the NEMCC Mobile Learning Conference the next week to learn more advanced work with the iPad and technology in the classroom. In the second half of the podcast, Northeast chorus and choir director Claire Leeke stops by to talk about her program and how it has grown over the last few years since she has taken over as director of the Northeast chorus and chamber choir. In the last two years, the chorus has jumped from 50 people to nearly 75 students and has taken on a variety of performances each semester. Northeast's chorus just returned from the state convention in Meridian where it was able to network with industry professionals as well as other choruses and choirs and even joined together for a mass chorus during the convention. Leeke talks about the upcoming chorus performances - one in Tupelo and the other in Corinth - during her time on the podcast. If you haven't subscribed to the podcast, now would be a good time to subscribe to stay up-to-date on all the happenings on the Northeast campuses and hear in-depth interviews with guests each week. Don't forget to follow the Northeast TigerTalk podcast on Facebook at http:.//www.facebook.com/nemcctigertalk, on Twitter at @nemcctigertalk or listen to all of our past episodes at http://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.fm

🎙️TigerTalk – where Northeast tells its story, one episode at a time.

For those who may have missed an episode, all Northeast TigerTalk episodes are archived at https://nemcctigertalk.simplecast.com.

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Information about Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College is a leading educational institution that provides comprehensive academic, technical, and workforce training programs to empower students and promote lifelong learning. With a commitment to excellence, Northeast Mississippi Community College fosters a supportive environment that prepares individuals for success in their chosen fields.

For more information about Northeast Mississippi Community College, visit http://www.nemcc.edu.