ELLISVILLE - Jones College has announced the 2019 spring semester honor roll scholars. Full-Time students with 15 hours or more and who maintain the following grade-point averages will make the honor roll:
ELLISVILLE – Mississippi Humanities Council representative, Dr. Ronnie Nettles presented Jones College music instructor, Dr. Lindsey Keay as the JC 2018-19 Mississippi Humanities Teacher of the Year during a special presentation at the college. The former Canadian and current Hattiesburg re…
ELLISVILLE - Jones College’s Jasper County Center in Bay Springs is offering summer and fall classes. Beginning May 27, the hybrid Public Speaking 1 class with John Burks will be offered from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. Students meet Monday nights, May 27, June 17, 24 and July 8, and 29, with the…
ELLISVILLE - Prepare for the CDL (commercial driver’s license) test at Jones College with a three-day course beginning on Saturday, June 1, and continuing each Saturday, June 8, and June 15. This three-day class meets from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Advanced Technology Center in Ellisville.…
ELLISVILLE - Three Jones College students were nominated for the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society’s All-Mississippi Academic Team with two students earning first-team honors. Shivum Desai of Hattiesburg and Caleb Brownlee of Moselle were named to the All-Mississippi Academic First Team. Jared W…
The Jones College student newspaper The Radionian recently won first place in a national newspaper competition, the David L. Adams Apple Awards.
ELLISVILLE – Whether it’s continuing their education or working in a medical facility, 21 Jones College students earned their Associates Degree in Nursing and are ready for the next step in their lives. The graduating class captured a piece of history with a group photo of everyone before th…
ELLISVILLE – First through six graders will have the opportunity to check out college this summer as a part of Jones College’s Kids’ College summer camp. Campers will gather Monday, June 3, through Friday, June 7, from 8:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. The $95 non-refundable tuition includes all …
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At the 92nd annual Spring Commencement ceremonies at Jones College, State Auditor Shad White of Sandersville challenged graduates to “own” their destinies, work hard and set a course toward achieving their goals.
The seventh-ranked Jones College Bobcats split their final home regular-season doubleheader Friday on “Sophomore Day” at Community Bank Park.
ELLISVILLE - Twenty-eight Jones College sophomores were selected as Hall of Fame finalists after completing an application listing campus and community involvement, volunteer service, leadership positions or offices held, academic honors and a minimum 3.6 GPA. Some of these students are athl…
Two former Jones College football players have signed NFL undrafted free agent contracts.
ELLISVILLE - Fourteen of the fifteen Jones College students that competed in the Phi Beta Lambda business honor society’s State competition in Columbus, Mississippi, came home, winners. They either placed first or second in their competitive events, qualifying them for the national competiti…
ELLISVILLE – During graduation practice, six Jones College sophomores were awarded Leadership, Athletic and Merit Gold Key Awards. These students were voted on by their peers for this special recognition.
Jones College will host a Kids Softball Camp May 28-29 at Community Bank Park on the JC campus.
Hill Denson will be inducted into the Mississippi Community College Sports Hall of Fame on Tuesday.
ELLISVILLE – Jones College held its annual “Retirement Tea” for eleven employees retiring in May. When combined, these employees provided 191 years of service to JC, with some having additional years of service working at other educational institutions.
ELLISVILLE – Sixty Jones College faculty and staff members were recently honored for their years of service to the college. Administrators and the JC Foundation treated everyone to lunch and an afternoon of basketball. JC administrators honored employees for their service at five-year increm…
Jones College has a bit of a different look as far as 2019 spring football practice goes.
Jones College’s Keyara Jones of Heidelberg was selected an NJCAA Division I Honorable Mention All-American.
ELLISVILLE – Five Jones College sophomores were selected for the highest honor bestowed upon students, being named Tullos Scholars. These students, Madeline Collins-Heidelberg; Shivum Desai-Oak Grove; Anna Catherine Hampton-Petal; Je’Shaiah Stephens-Laurel and Jared Woullard-Leakesville have…
ELLISVILLE – Six Smith County students were recently awarded the Jones County Junior College A.T. Bassett Memorial Scholarship. English teachers from the three Smith County schools were asked to choose several students to compete by writing an essay on various topics for the Writing Competit…
Continuing an 18-year tradition, Jones College’s Jazz Band along with vocal ensembles JC Voices and The Bridge, will present “Java and Jazz” on Thursday, April 16, at 7 p.m. on the M.P. Bush Fine Arts Auditorium stage. The Java and Jazz concert will feature a variety of great music and is fr…
ELLISVILLE – Mississippi’s 42nd State Auditor, Shad White will be returning to his home county to be the keynote speaker at both of Jones College’s Spring Commencement Ceremonies on Friday, May 3. The morning ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. for students whose last names begin with the letter…
The Jones County Junior College Radionian received 27 total awards and the first place General Excellence Award for two-year colleges in the 2018-2019 Better Newspaper Contest student division of the Mississippi Press Association.
The annual Katie Herrington Fellowship of Christian Athletes Golf Tournament will be played beginning at 9 a.m. on April 18 at Laurel Country Club.
The Mississippi Special Olympics Piney Woods Region (Area 17) Spring Games will be Friday at the Jones College Bobcat Stadium/Sim Cooley Field in Ellisville. Opening ceremonies for the event, which is sponsored by Ellisville State School Leisure Services Department, will begin at 9 a.m.
LUBBOCK, Texas – Jones College is headed to the Sweet 16 in the NJCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament.
CLINTON – It’s a three-peat for the Jones College Lady Bobcats.
A feast of music from across the ages and around the world is being offered on Fridays in March and April at Jones County Junior College. The annual Spring Recital Series features a variety of musicians and vocalists entertaining the audience during a portion of the lunch hour. This musical …
ELLISVILLE – Jones College sophomore, Layne Loftin of Seminary was awarded a $1,000 tuition scholarship from the Southeast Area Chapter of the Mississippi Professional Engineering Society as part of National Engineering Week. He was elected by the MPES’s scholarship committee. Several stude…
The Jones College basketball teams will continue postseason play next week.
ELLISVILLE – A Magnolia, Mississippi native and current Alabama State University art professor’s work will be on display through March 19, at Jones College’s Eula Bass Lewis Art Gallery in Ellisville. ASU’s visual arts associate professor, Charmagne Andrews will be on campus, Tuesday, March…
ELLISVILLE – Jones College’s music instructor, Dr. Lindsey Keay has been selected as the JC 2018-19 Mississippi Humanities Teacher of the Year. She will be honored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and the college on Tuesday, March 5, at 10:30 a.m. in the M.P. Bush Fine Arts Auditorium.…
ELLISVILLE – The Foundation for the Mid South’s $46,000 grant has helped Jones College’s commercial truck driving program go into “overdrive.” One of the goals of the Foundation for the Mid South grant is to help fill the demand for more truck drivers.
ELLISVILLE – Twenty four of Jones College’s engineering majors toured one of the state’s renowned engineering facilities at Mississippi State University. In addition to being able to tour the Bagley College of Engineering, students toured the Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS) and…
ELLISVILLE – Mississippi Economic Council COO, Cathy Northington spent a morning at Jones College recently sharing how Jones College students can be leaders who make a difference as the guest speaker for the college’s annual Black History Leadership program. Despite the many obstacles in her…
The 2018 NJCAA Division II national champion Jones College Lady Bobcats were honored on Jan. 30 at the state Capitol.
ELLISVILLE - Jones College’s theater production of “Hairspray” is taking audiences back to the ’60s when the beehive and the flipped-bob hairdo’s were popular and social problems erupted. Star-struck teenybopper, Traci Turnblad, played by Kassidy Chandler of Laurel, takes the audience on an …
ELLISVILLE - Jones College’s Symphonic Band recently performed before 500 middle and high school students from the region at the annual Southeast Mississippi Band Director’s Association’s (SEMBDA) annual band clinic. This annual event kicks off the concert season for the 60 member group whic…
The Jones College cheerleaders earned high honors at the UCA College Championship in Florida Jan. 18-20.
Southern Miss pitching coach Christian Ostrander will be the guest speaker at the Jones College preseason baseball banquet.
The Jones College basketball teams won a pair of high-scoring contests Monday night at Copiah-Lincoln.
ELLISVILLE – Jones College’s Office of Student Affairs will be hosting its annual Black History Leadership program on Tuesday, February 12, at 10 a.m. in the JC Fine Arts Auditorium. The public is invited to attend this free event to hear featured guest speaker and COO of the Mississippi Ec…
ELLISVILLE – Jackson native and current Hattiesburg artist, Traci Stover’s collection, “Scrutiny: Portraiture Through the Eye,” has become an eye-opening experience for Jones College students. The exhibit, on display at Jones College’s Eula Bass Lewis Art Gallery on the Ellisville campus unt…
The Jones College Lady Bobcats start off the 2019 softball season where they ended up in 2018 — tops in the nation.
ELLISVILLE –The College Public Relations Association of Mississippi (CPRAM) is offering two $1,000 scholarships per year for students majoring in public relations, communications, journalism, advertising, mass communications, political communications, crisis management, graphic design, or ot…
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