Creator: State Board for Community & Junior Colleges (RG 63

Collection Summary: A map related to community college districts and campus locations in the state of Mississippi. Prepared by the Community College Board on August 30, 1995. The map shows both main campuses and branch sites for the colleges. Base data compiled from USGS 1:100,000 scale maps.

Access Restrictions: None.

Date(s): 1995.

Volume: 0.25 Cubic Feet.

Finding Aid Created By: Shaun Stalzer in August 2024.

Related Materials: TBD

Record Group History: In 1922, the state legislature authorized the first extension of an agricultural high school curriculum to offer college-level courses. Through this legislation, Mississippi began its first two public junior colleges (Hinds Agricultural High School-Junior College, at Raymond, and Pearl River Agricultural High School-Junior College at Poplarville). The legislature in 1924 approved an act enabling the trustees of a separate school district containing a municipality of not less than ten thousand or an agricultural high school not less than twenty miles from a state college to extend their curriculum to include freshman and sophomore year courses, provided such schools were four-year accredited high schools. In 1928, the legislature passed a law amending certain sections of the Laws of 1924 to read, "that junior colleges consisting of the work of the freshman and sophomore years shall be organized for the purpose of providing such courses as will make the studies of the agricultural high schools and the junior colleges a connected and correlated whole or complete unit of educational work." Geographic zones consisting of several counties were formed to control any unexpected overgrowth in the number of junior colleges. The present fifteen junior colleges are each governed by a board of trustees. The Board has a working relationship with the Department of Education, but there are no laws which involve the two in educational processes. The Department of Education's only funding to community colleges are with those associated with vocational-technical programs.

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Campus Locations Map

32587