The ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ baseball team hit the field this past week to start fall baseball practices and wasted no time in getting involved in the community. The City of Mount Pleasant held a Cinco de Mayo festival downtown on Saturday, August 28th since the original festival was canceled in the spring due to COVID restrictions.
ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ is pleased to announce that the Human Resources staff has been nominated for the final Summer Shout Out of 2021. Amy Adkins, Melissa Dickeson, Maria Gonzalez and Mario Razo work hard to do payroll, manage employee benefits and so much more.
ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ Presidential Scholar, Aaliyah Avellaneda, has won the fourth Dr. Jerry Wesson Scholarship, for academic excellence in honors. This year the award increased from $500 to $750. This honor was established in 2018 by Scott Wesson, a Senior Vice President of UDR, an owner of 50,000 exclusive apartment units throughout the United States. The award commemorates his father-- long-term ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ Vice President, and supporter, Dr. Jerry Wesson.
The ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ EatBetter4Less program and History Departments will co-host βThe Journey from African Medicine to Soul Food & Food Tastingβ with guest speaker Chef Kami Redd on Monday, Sept. 20 at 12:30 p.m. in Humanities 101 (community room). Redd is an herbalist, nutritionist and author who will take participants on a culinary journey from traditional African medicine to comforting African-American Soul Food. She will also explain how comfort can be utilized for healing. The event is free to attend.
The ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ Soccer teams hosted Blinn Junior College on Saturday in the 2021 Conference opener. The ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ Women would start the season off with a 2-1 victory over the Buccaneers, while the Menβs team from ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ eared a 1-0 victory over Blinn.
ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ Athletics is pleased to announce the hiring of Ross Davis as Assistant Baseball Coach. Coach Davis will primarily work with pitchers and catchers for the Eagles.
Alpha Mu Chi, ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅βs chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, received a grant for the second year from the Mellon Foundation to help fund their Honors in Action project.
ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ Athletics is pleased to announce the hiring of new assistant softball coach Mikayla Krause. Coach Krause recently graduated from McMurry University in Abilene, Texas with a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies.
The annual Northeast Texas Poetry Reading on Friday, September 3 at 11 AM will again occur at the Foyer of the Whatley Center for the Performing Arts on the ΊωΒ«ΝήΚΣΖ΅ campus. The public is invited for this free event, the fourteenth of its kind in as many years. This year, in addition to six readings of the highest ranked poems of the adult and student divisions, and a presentation of winning Northeast Texas images, two speakers will share their perceptions of our region.
During the month of August, the Professional Truck Driving Academy graduated nine candidates from three different cohorts. Seven of those candidates were in our weekday course, and the other two candidates were from our weekend course. The academy has served over 50 individuals since Sept 2020.
