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PERS info seminar offered at Northwest April 1
by LaJuan Tallo 3/24/2008 The Continuing Education Division at Northwest Mississippi Community College is offering two sessions of “Let’s Talk About the Retirement System,” an overview of the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) on Tuesday, April 1 at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the Fine Arts Auditorium on the Senatobia Campus. Don Clanton, retired Superintendent of Tate County Schools, former mayor of Senatobia and current part-time employee of Northwest, will speak on topics such as the best time to retire, eligibility, advanced applications, buy-back time, military time, sick time, disability retirement, take home money and after retirement. The event is free to the public. For more information, contact Patricia Lowder, coordinator of Continuing Education at 562-3349 or e-mail pwlowder@northwestms.edu. |
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Explore the hidden side at Reading Roundtable Northwest Mississippi Community College Economics Instructor Marty Bolen will present “Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything” by Stephen Levitt and Stephen Dunbar at the March offering of Reading Roundtable. The session will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25 in the R. C. Pugh Library on the Senatobia campus. The purpose of the program is to provide a forum for senior adults to read and discuss a variety of books during the course of each semester. Discussions will be led by faculty at Northwest. The April Reading Roundtable will be held on Tuesday,. April 29 and will feature the book, “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult. For more information, contact the Northwest library at (662) 562-3268 or e-mail mrogers@northwestms. edu. |
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| Northwest Mississippi Community College Network Administrator Chuck Adams, left, and Network Technician Mike LaMar, right, recently brought back the Innovation award from the Mirage Networks' OASIS conference in Austin, Texas. The college was recognized by Mirage as the first customer to implement Mirage's deep scan module, allowing the college to immediately detect viruses and firewalls on outside computers used on the campus. The module has made users' abilities easier and more accessible. Northwest began using the Mirage system last spring. Colleges and businesses from 37 countries were invited to attend the event. Mr. Adams is from Senatobia and Mr. LaMar is from Lakeland, Tennessee. (Photo by LaJuan Tallo) |
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Dozens of Mississippi community college students stand behind the banner bearing the "Mississippi Values" logo at a press conference held Feb. 28 in the capitol in Jackson. Students, faculty members, state faculty association members and Dr. Eric Clark, executive director, State Board for Community and Junior Colleges, presented funding requests to the Mississippi legislature. Included in that request is mid-level per student funding, capital improvements and a dropout recovery initiative. Northwest Mississippi Community College President, Dr. Gary Lee Spears, joined other community college presidents at the event held in the rotunda. (Photo by Nancy Patterson) |
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Northwest Mississippi Community College freshman Amber Thomas slides in safely at third base in the second game of a doubleheader against Southwest Tennessee Feb. 28 in Senatobia. Northwest lost both contests by scores of 4-3 and 5-2. (Photo by Brett Brown) |
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