Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the Northeast Honors Institute and its recent Honors Symposium where students involved in the Honors Institute on campus were allowed to present their research-based topics to Northeast employees, stude…

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the college's plan for graduation with the Bonner Arnold Coliseum undergoing major renovations to the playing surface, the college had to find a new place for its 2024 commencement exercises. Ford talks…

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss as the semester winds down and classes are drawing to a close, what the veteran educator thinks about the spring semester and how it has been going. Ford gives insight into how busy the spring semester …

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the college's newest class - a computer concepts class for the fall. However, this class will not be like the college's CSC Computer Applications class but will be more geared toward an introductory cou…

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the new logistics management technology class that the college will be starting in the fall. Ford talks about Willie Gates, who will lead the program and what he has done to help get the program off the…

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how high school students especially high school seniors can use the Spring Break holidays to get a jump on their fall enrollment duties and what they can do to give themselves better chances at scholars…

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the legislative process at the Mississippi state capitol and how the community college system plays into that process. Ford discusses his meetings with top elected officials and committee chairs trying …

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the customer service training that was provided to members of the college's administrative council and how that training will trickle down to everyone at the college from full- to part-time faculty and …

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how Northeast is one of the top community colleges for online education. In addition, the pair touch on how the college continues to stay at the top by leveraging its digital resources and technology to…

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss an event that happens right as the school returns from its Spring Break holidays in May. Calvery and Ford discuss the Northeast baseball and softball team's "An Exceptional Night of Baseball," which is …

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss all the students that the college serves but focus on the non-traditional students and how they impact the student make-up of Northeast. Ford talks about reasons some students step away from their educa…

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to talk about the college celebrating its 75th anniversary. Calvery asks about pivotal moments in the college's history that have helped to shape Northeast as one of the top educational institutions in the nation.…

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss all that goes into the college making a call for weather or other events and how that affects the operations of the college, its employees, students and community members. Ford also talks about the ease…

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the inclement weather that has caused the college to shut down for the remainder of the week and switch from in-person to virtual learning. Ford also addresses the addition of cross country in the fall …

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the college's dedication to customer service training and what Northeast is doing to do more to help the customers it serves -- whether it is students, alumni or community members. Northeast will underg…

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the veteran educator's goals and aspirations for the 2024 Spring semester. Ford talks about projects coming to the college's Booneville campus such as finishing the HVAC renovations in Gordon and Harget…

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford talks about everything that the college has accomplished during the Fall 2023 semester. Ford discusses the enrollment increase that the college saw during the Fall 2023 semester - over 200 students from the previous year, the college's selection as a Great Colleges to Work for Hono…

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the different advancements and trends in technology that the college has embraced and will embrace during the coming year to help keep up with the differences in the student population year over year. F…

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the college's recent legislative luncheon, where college officials welcome elected representatives to campus to give them information and a tour of one of the top community colleges in the nation. Calve…

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss ways in which students can manage the stress of the end of the semester. The veteran educator offers several tips on how to address end-of-the-semester exams. From taking breaks to not studying all nigh…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the steps that the college has taken to keep its students, employees and members of the community safe. Whether it is an active shooter, inclement weather or any other incident that can happen, Northeas…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss what the college president is proud of the college accomplishing in the past 11 months from being named an Apple Distinguished School for the second straight three-year section to receiving a $15.8 mill…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss what the veteran educator would say to high school seniors as they are wrapping up their final year in high school. Ford draws upon his experience as a women's basketball coach recruiting high-quality a…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss some of the favorite memories of the 2023 fall semester. Ford talks to different employees and gauges what they have liked and enjoyed about the 2023 fall semester and shares a tidbit of those memories.…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the importance of Northeast's desire to see all of northeast Mississippi become digitally fluent. Ford discusses the differences in digital literacy and digital fluency and how the college is working to…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) has been around longer than many people realize and how the college can embrace the use of AI in the classroom as an aid in preparing students for the workforce and givi…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss what Ford's vision for Northeast in not only the short-term but the long-term as well and how the college will continue to invest in new technologies and new instruction methods to keep it as one of the…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the college's recent Tiger Apprenticeship Interview Day that goes hand-in-hand with the Tiger Apprenticeship through the college's Division of Business and Engineering Technology. Ford discusses the way…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how important it is to get the Northeast brand out in front of today's high school students. The duo talks about the recent Northeast NOW recruitment event that saw 14 high schools come to the college o…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how the college takes steps to ensure not only the mental health of its students but its employees as well. Ford talks about the lecture by former coach Mark Potter on Tuesday, September 19 where the fo…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how the college keeps up with the needs of its ever-changing student population. From one year to the next, the needs of the students are constantly changing and Northeast uses a variety of processes to…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how the college partners with four-year colleges and universities to ensure the success of its students after their time in the City of Hospitality. Ford also discusses how the Success Center and the Co…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss upcoming events on campus and news about several renovations, athletic events, and student activities, in addition to Northeast's position as one of the premier institutions of higher education in the c…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how Northeast and the Northeast Development and Alumni Association stay connected with college alums and how the Northeast Development Foundation and Alumni Association uses its unique position to lever…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how Northeast promotes its extracurricular activities to students and how the college is bolstering its extracurricular offerings with the addition of an Intramural Coordinator and a consorted effort fr…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how the college plays a significant role in promoting cultural and creative events not only on the college's five campuses throughout its service district of Alcorn, Prentiss, Tippah, Tishomingo, and Un…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how the college works with local high schools to encourage students to pursue higher education. Ford talks about all the recruiting that happens to not only a senior in high school but how Northeast tri…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how Northeast sets itself apart from other community and four-year colleges and universities in the state and what unique programs that Northeast offers to help attract students to Booneville. In additi…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how the college not only serves the needs of its traditional student population base but how the entire college community comes together to serve not only those 18-24 years in age but dual enrolled stud…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss what steps Northeast has taken to make college affordable for all while other two- and four-year colleges and universities continue to raise tuition. Ford talks about all the ways the Booneville-based c…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery and discusses some of the advice the veteran educator would give to a person coming to college for the first time or to someone returning to Northeast for the Fall 2023 semester. To wrap up the time, Ford gives li…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery and discusses Northeast being mentioned on a national television program for its career technical education (CTE) programs, how the college embraces its role in preparing some students for four-year colleges and u…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery and discusses the main challenges, opportunities and other influences that the community colleges - as an individual community college and as a community college system - face in an ever-changing educational lands…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery and discusses plans for the college in the coming years. Ford discusses the addition of different sports in the next few years to Northeast, working to make Seth Pounds Auditorium a state-of-the-art facility, the …

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery and discusses how Northeast prepares its students for life after Northeast, whether it be transferring to a four-year college or university or entering the workforce and providing for their families. To wrap up th…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery and discusses everything that happens at one of the premier community colleges in the nation during the summer months. Northeast does not sit idly by during June and July but amps up its commitment to the communit…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery and discusses the prison education program at the Alcorn County Regional Justice Complex in Corinth and how unique partnerships with Alcorn County Sheriff Ben Caldwell and the Mississippi Humanities Council have led No…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery and changes up the format of TigerTalk. In this interview, Calvery and Ford discuss how Northeast has a strong reputation for providing quality education - in the classroom, online and all places in between. Ford talks…

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery and changes up the format of TigerTalk. Instead of two questions and limited discussion, the two hosts focus on one main issue for an extended time and then head into the Northeast News. In this interview, Calvery and …

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery and changes up the format of TigerTalk. Instead of two questions and limited discussion, the two hosts focus on one main issue for an extended time and then head into the Northeast News. In this interview, Calvery and …