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Itawamba Community Collegeâs Nathan Ward of Mooreville and Jessi Stevenson of Fulton will be among statewide recipients of Mississippi Humanities Teacher Awards, which will be presented virtually, Mar. 26 at 7 p.m.
Ward, who is the 2021 recipient, has been an English instructor at ICC since 2007. Stevenson, the 2020 recipient, has been employed with ICC since 2006 and is currently instructor of Fine Arts.
The awards will be presented virtually and will stream over the Mississippi Humanities Councilâs Facebook and YouTube channels.
The Humanities Teacher Awards pay tribute to outstanding faculty in traditional humanities fields at each of Mississippiâs institutions of higher learning. Although 2020-21 came with its own new set of challenges, humanities faculty at Mississippiâs colleges and universities continue to engage in significant work in their classrooms (or home offices), nurturing studentsâ capacity to think critically and creatively, to evaluate po
News Briefs: MGCCC cuts ribbon on new performing arts center
Updated Feb 26, 2021;
GULFPORT, Mississippi Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College recently unveiled its new Immersive Media Performing Arts Center (iMPAC) on its Harrison County campus.
The new venue will host performances, events, conferences and meetings and will, according to the school, be the “premier performance facility on the coast and a training ground for live performance professionals.”
The center will also become the new home for the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra, which signed an agreement with MGCCC to use iMPAC at its home. The orchestra is now is its 59th year of entertaining the Mississippi coast.