Coahoma Community College
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Coahoma Community College is a community college located in Coahoma County, Mississippi, approximately four miles north of the city of Clarksdale. The 99 acre campus lies in an agrarian setting along Clarksdale-Friars Point Road near the Mississippi River, which forms the western boundary of Coahoma County.
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[edit] History
Establishing Coahoma County Agricultural High School in 1924, Coahoma County became the first county in Mississippi to provide an agricultural high school for African-Americans under the then existing "separate but equal" doctrine of education. The junior college curriculum was added in 1949, and the name of the institution was changed to Coahoma Junior College and Agricultural High School.
During the first two years (1949-1950), the junior college program was conducted by one full-time college director-teacher and a sufficient number of part-time teachers from the high school division. A full-time dean and college faculty were employed the third year. During the first year of operation (1949), Coahoma Junior College was supported entirely by county funds. In 1950, Coahoma Junior College became the first educational institution for Afro-Americans to be included in Mississippi's system of public junior colleges and to be eligible to share in funds appropriated by the Mississippi Legislature for the support of public junior colleges. Counties, other than Coahoma, that supported the college were Bolivar, Quitman, and Sunflower.
In 1965, Coahoma Junior College opened its doors to all students regardless of race or color.
With the approval of the Board of Trustees of Coahoma Junior College and the State Board for Community and Junior Colleges, Coahoma Junior College's name was changed to Coahoma Community College, effective July 1, 1989.
In the spring of 1995, after many years of not having an official district, a bill was introduced into and passed by the Mississippi Legislature and signed by the Governor giving Coahoma Community College a district. Effective July 1, 1995, the Coahoma Community College district became Bolivar, Coahoma, Quitman, Tallahatchie and Tunica counties.
[edit] Accreditation and academics
Coahoma Community College is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award the Associate of Arts degree, the Associate of Applied Science degree, and certificates in career education.
[edit] Current College Administration
Coahoma Community College's Administrative Officers are:
Dr. Vivian Presley, President
Dr. Rosetta Howard, Academic Dean
Ann Clark, Career-Technical Dean
Dr. Gregory Hudson, Dean of Students
Charles White, Workforce Development Center Director
Deborah Meeks-McNeal, Business Manager
LeAndrew Presley, Director of Campus Technology
Wanda Holmes, Director of Admissions and Records
Rosemary Dill, Director of Institutional Effectiveness
Marilyn Starks, Director of Institution Advancement
Freeman Horton, Athletic Director
[edit] Athletics
The Coahoma Community College athletic teams are known as the Tigers and their colors are maroon and white.
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