LCSD lets students switch from virtual to in-person learning mid-semester
Roughly 20 percent of students who originally signed up for virtual learning at Lowndes County School District will be back in their classrooms by Oct. 12, Superintendent Sam Allison said Friday
More than 2,600 students opt for traditional school, 1,700 for virtual at SOCSD
With less than two weeks until school starts back for students in Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District, questions about virtual versus in-person learning dominated discussion at Tuesday evening’s board of trustees meeting.
Sign up for Learning in our Neighborhood classes
Registration is under way for East Mississippi Community College’s Learning in Our Neighborhood, or LION program, which provides adult residents the opportunity to take noncredit courses about a wide range of topics.
Calling all lifelong learners: LION launches ‘Learning in Our Neighborhood’
Years ago, Marilyn Ford would help her daughter Brandi fall asleep with adventurous tales of Sir Gawain, an humble knight in service to King Arthur. The chivalric stories from a late 14th-century Middle English romance are some of Ford’s favorites. Soon, she will get to share the Arthurian quests with inquisitive adults in a class titled “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.”
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle classes and events
■ Feb. 2, 9, 16, 23: Ten-minute discounted heart score screenings for people age 35 and older will be offered at the Outpatient Pavilion from
Homestead’s month of ‘Provide’ gets back to basics
The month of October at the Mississippi Modern Homestead Center in Starkville is all about “Provide,” the second installment in its Reclaiming Real Living Series.
Classes for homeless focus on the basics
On the day before school started in Columbus, Glenda Buckhalter stood before a table stacked with book bags containing school supplies Wednesday and offered an apology.
“I’m sorry that I couldn’t get everything,” she told the group of a dozen women, all moms, and in one case, a grandmother.
Millport library offers computer class for seniors
Millenials and Baby-Boomers: Mawmaw may soon be sending you a Facebook friend request.
Cultural exchange: The Golden Triangle can expect more Japanese visitors soon. Jim Dickey can help us be a gracious host
“When somebody asks me about Japan, it’s hard to stop talking,” admits Jim Dickey, with a wide grin spreading across his genial face. Tall and trim, the Columbus man continues writing “Welcome to Mississippi” in Japanese on a big dry erase board in a Mississippi University for Women classroom.
Mississippi’s community colleges plan to rework remedial courses
A new structure for remedial courses at Mississippi’s 15 community colleges could help more students graduate more quickly.
Spring Life Enrichment courses at The W begin Jan. 27
Mississippi University for Women’s Office of Outreach and Innovation will offer 42 non-credit courses as part of its community Life Enrichment Program this spring.
Supervisors, EMCC interested in Starkville satellite facility
East Mississippi Community College and Oktibbeha County representatives say they’re willing to work together on a partnership that would bring a workforce training satellite facility to Starkville.
Our view: MUW program offers opportunities for those wanting to expand their knowledge
Henry Ford, one of the great pioneers of the Industrial Age, once said, “anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
MUW’s Life Enrichment Program continues to grow
Three years ago, a friend of Pam Cunningham’s took a yoga course.
The course was part of the Life Enrichment Program at the Mississippi University For Women’s Center for Creative Learning, and Cunningham decided to give it a try, too. The experience stuck.
Organic gardens? One-stroke art? Self defense? LEP offers it all
Learning a new skill, an innovative exercise, or a better way to tackle almost anything from scrapbooking to eBay is at the community’s fingertips. Those subjects, plus many others, are among course offerings in the Mississippi University for Women Life Enrichment Program’s upcoming summer terms.
Columbus library helps bridge ‘digital divide’
Love it or hate it, the Internet is here to stay, rapidly permeating almost every aspect of our culture.
Once a novelty, digital literacy is now a critical skill, and libraries across the country are scrambling to get their patrons up to speed.
Experts: Trained police needed for school security
The student’s attack began with a shotgun blast through the windows of a California high school. Rich Agundez, the El Cajon policeman assigned to the school, felt his mind shift into overdrive.
People yelled at him amid the chaos but he didn’t hear. He experienced “a tunnel vision of concentration.”
Gun group offers training for Utah teachers
Jessica Fiveash sees nothing wrong with arming teachers. She’s one herself, and learned Thursday how to safely use her 9 mm Ruger with a laser sight.
“If we have the ability to stop something, we should do it,” said the elementary school teacher, who along with nearly 200 other teachers in Utah took six hours of free gun training offered by the state’s leading gun lobby.