East Mississippi Community College

East Mississippi Community College (EMJC), also known as East Mississippi Junior College, is a community college system in Mississippi with its headquarters in the Thomas L. Davis, Jr. Administration Building in the Scooba Campus in Scooba. Home of the 2011, 2013 and 2014 NJCAA National Championship EMCC Lions Football team.

EMCC serves and is supported by Clay, Kemper, Lauderdale, Lowndes, Noxubee and Oktibbeha counties in east central Mississippi. The system has two principal campuses and offers courses at three other locations. EMCC offers a broad range of academic and technical programs, and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) to award the Associate of Applied Science degree and the Associate of Arts degree. It is one of fifteen community colleges in Mississippi.

Campuses

Scooba Campus

The Scooba Campus is in Scooba, 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the town's central business district. The 25-acre (10 ha) main campus houses the Thomas L. Davis, Jr. Administration Building, which houses the administrative offices of the entire community college system and of the Scooba Campus.

Academic buildings include Athletic Instruction and Training Building (Lions Field House), Margie B. Aust Hall (art department), the Hawkins Career-Technical Complex, Music Building, Oktibbeha Hall (science building), John Stennis Hall, and the Virgil G. Warren Hall for Mathematics and Science.

Other buildings include the F.R. Young Student Union (houses cafeteria), Tubb-May Memorial Library, Wallace Hall (houses business and financial aid offices), the 12,000 square feet (1,100 m²) Student Activity Center (houses athletic facilities), the Physical Plant Complex, Sullivan-Windham Field (a 5,000-seat, artificial-turf football stadium), the 900 seat Keyes C. Currie Coliseum, and the Chapel in the Pines.

Residence halls

The Gilbert-Anderson Hall is the main residence hall for women, while the Women's Honors Dorm, completed in October 2004, also houses students. The entire Gilbert-Anderson facility is two stories tall and has 86 rooms. It can house up to 172 students. The Women's Honors Dorm, a wing of Gilbert-Anderson, can house up to 48 students in 24 rooms.

Residence halls for men include Honors Hall, Lauderdale Hall, Noxubee Hall, and Sullivan Hall. The two story Lauderdale Hall has 40 rooms, and can house up to 73 students. It was renovated in 1996. The two story Noxubee Hall has 45 rooms and can house up to 90 students. It was renovated in 1998. The two story Sullivan Hall has 32 rooms and can house up to 64 students. The two story Honors Residence Hall for men requires its residents to have high academic achievement. It has 23 rooms and can hold up to 46 students.

Golden Triangle Campus

The Golden Triangle Campus is located on a 83.46-acre (33.78 ha) plot of land in Mayhew, an unincorporated area in Lowndes County. The campus is adjacent to the frontage road of Mississippi Highway 182 and the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad. The campus is 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the intersection of Alternate U.S. Highway 45 and U.S. Highway 82, 10 miles (16 km) south of West Point, 10 miles (16 km) east of Starkville, and 12 miles (19 km) west of Columbus.

The campus consists of multiple buildings with a total of over 200,000 square feet (19,000 m²) of space. The Thomas Douglas Building houses academic and technical facilities, including career and technical training, computer applications, developmental education, and sciences. Originally a vocational education building, the Douglas Building was later expanded. The 5,876-square-foot (545.9 m²) Aaron Langston Student Center is located in the Douglas Building. The center houses the bookstore, lounge area, and solarium. It also houses the 155 Grill and the recreation area, which are connected together. The student center is named after the Golden Triangle Campus's first director.

The 50,000-square-foot (4,600 m²) Thomas Douglas Annex has classrooms, laboratories, and office space for several departments. Departments in the building include automotive mechanics; heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration technology; and industrial maintenance technology.

The 27,000-square-foot (2,500 m²) Center for Manufacturing Technology Excellence (CMTE) is located on the west side of the college. It includes an administration area including a 750-square-foot (70 m²) conference room, office space, and workrooms. The building also houses a 4,400-square-foot (410 m²) multi-purpose commons room, 2,200 square feet (200 m²) of classroom footage, a 70-seat elevated seminar room, and 7,800 square feet (720 m²) of high bay manufacturing space.

The 22,539-square-foot (2,093.9 m²) Academic and Science Building houses three laboratories, classrooms, faculty space, and a 70-seat elevated classroom/seminar room. The 24,600-square-foot (2,290 m²) Humanities and Fine Arts Building, the newest building on the campus, houses classrooms, laboratories, and offices. Courses that use the building include visual arts, drama, literature, music, and related subjects.

The over 8,200-square-foot (760 m²) library opened in August 2002. It has two study rooms, a 17-computer computer lab, and a multimedia center. The 11,738-square-foot (1,090.5 m²) Student Services Building has administrative offices, business offices for the Golden Triangle Campus, the counseling center, financial aid offices, the registrar's offices, and other offices that provide student services.

Other locations

• Columbus Air Force Base Extension, Columbus.
• Naval Air Station Meridian Extension, Meridian.
• Macon Extension, Noxubee County High School, Macon.

History

East Mississippi Junior College, in Scooba, Mississippi, was organized in 1927 following its beginnings in 1912 as Kemper County Agricultural High School. It was later renamed East Mississippi Community College. While the Scooba Campus has always been the primary campus, the Golden Triangle Campus has been growing at an increasing rate over the last several years. The Golden Triangle Campus, founded as the Golden Triangle Vo-Tech Center in 1968, serves the Golden Triangle region of Mississippi and is the primary location of the career and technical programs. Both Scooba and Golden Triangle offer a broad range of academic classes.

Athletics

EMCC offers men's athletics programs in baseball, basketball, cheerleading, football, golf and rodeo. Women's teams are fielded in basketball, cheerleading, rodeo, and softball. EMCC has won national championships in football in 2011, 2013 and 2014. In 2011, EMCC won the championship over Arizona Western College 55-47. In 2013, EMCC won the NJCAA national football championship over Georgia military by a score of 52-32. In 2015, EMCC was barred from playing for the national championship due to a bench clearing brawl in a shortened game involving fellow MACJC member Mississippi Delta Community College.

Notable people

• Breiseus "Alex" Ashford, Jack Kent Cooke Scholar, 2007. and winner of the 2010 Prize Americana for Poetry for her book Danke Schoen
• Denico Autry, NFL player
• Orlando Bobo NFL football player.
• LeGarrette Blount, University of Oregon running back and NFL football player with the New England Patriots.
• Milford Brown NFL football player.
• Kortney Clemons, Paralympic athlete who played cornerback at EMCC.
• Quinton Dial football player for the San Francisco 49ers.
• Dr. Donald C. Simmons, Jr., noted documentary filmmaker, author and social entrepreneur.
• Antowain Smith NFL football player for the Buffalo Bills.
• Robert "Bull" "Cyclone" Sullivan was a famous EMJC football coach who was later the subject of book and documentary film after being featured in a 1984 Sports Illustrated article "The Toughest Coach There Ever Was". Sullivan is enshrined in the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame.
• Bo Wallace football player for Ole Miss.
• Justin Cox NFL football player for the Kansas City Chiefs

External links

• East Mississippi Community College