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The ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Professional Driving Academy continues to grow and supply high-demand CDL drivers to the local area. Six new students graduated from the program over spring break, making a total of 21 graduates since the program started last September.

ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Baseball returned home on Saturday after a series of weather-related cancellations to take on the Panola Ponies in a conference matchup. While the weather was great, the day would not go the Eagles way as Panola defeated ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ 6-2 in game one and 9-3 in game two to get the series sweep.

ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ’s Business department provides flexible learning opportunities through various delivery methods. Small face-to-face courses that observe all safety protocols provide enhanced learning environments with plenty of individual support from instructors.  Below is the full schedule of business courses being offered for spring 2nd 8-weeks:

The University of Texas - Tyler will be at ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ on Wednesday, March 10 to assist students who are interested in transferring to UT-Tyler. Emily Gora, recruiter, will be in the Career and Transfer Center (BT 111B) from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to assist with applications, accept transcripts and waive the $60 university application fee. 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday that the statewide mask mandate is ending. In response, ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ is awaiting further guidance from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) in regards to specific health and safety recommendations for colleges going forward.   

The ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Art Department will host the Mount Pleasant Art Society Annual Membership Show March 8-26 in the foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts. The competitive show features artwork from a variety of local artists.

The Student Government Association will host Go for the Goal, a virtual motivational seminar on Monday, March 8 from 12:25-1:25 p.m. The seminar will be led by author and consultant Ahmard Vital (). The meeting will be via Zoom at (meeting ID 332 825 3170). 

ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Softball hit the road to Cisco, Texas this weekend to take on Pratt Junior College (Pratt, Kansas) and Cisco College on Saturday. ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ would defeat Pratt 12-1 in game one and knocked off home team Cisco 14-3 to complete the two-game road trip with wins.

ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Baseball hit the road, for their third game in three days, to take on Navarro College in a Conference matchup on Thursday. ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ would take down Navarro 12-3 in the series opener.

Would ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ even do a film? At a dinner last 23 July on the terrace of Nardello’s restaurant, ten members of the local ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Webb Chapter, which is largely coterminous with Honors Northeast, met to discuss this and other questions. It was hot, and the pandemic was peaking. Most members were in shorts.  At a crucial moment, Brian Ramirez, an incoming ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ freshman from Mount Pleasant, raised his cell phone to display his Snapchat App. In the blink of an eye, every student was connected.  Ramirez went on from this quick network fix to become the primary advocate of actual filming. Soon he was the film’s unit production director, and the film’s producer. This past 6 February during the State Webb presentation on zoom led by the Education Director of the Texas State Historical Association, Lisa Berg, Ramirez received a Webb Award for representing the freshman-sophomore Chapter that had performed the most significant activity in Texas history. The ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Webb chapter has also won this award in 2013, 2017, and in 2019 for its Barbara Conrad film.