East Mississippi Junior College
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| Type | Public Community College |
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| Established | 1927 |
| President | Dr. Thomas M. Huebner, Jr., Ph.D. |
| Location | Scooba, Mississippi, United States |
| Colors | Red, Black and White |
| Athletics | NJCAA |
| Nickname | Lions |
| Affiliations | Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges |
| Sports | 10 teams |
| Website | www.eastms.edu |
East Mississippi Community College (EMCC), formerly known as East Mississippi Junior College (EMJC), is a community college in Mississippi. EMCC serves and is supported by Clay, Kemper, Lauderdale, Lowndes, Noxubee and Oktibbeha counties in east central Mississippi. The college has two principal campuses and offers courses at five other locations. One of fifteen community colleges in Mississippi, EMCC is the home of the 2011, 2013 and 2014 NJCAA National Championship EMCC Lions Football team.
EMCC is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award the Associate of Applied Science degree and the Associate of Arts degree. The college offers a broad range of academic/university parallel, career-technical and workforce training programs.
Community colleges in Mississippi were originally designed to make educational opportunities more accessible for residents of rural areas throughout the state.
East Mississippi Community College's original campus is located in the Kemper County town of Scooba. It was founded in 1927 following its beginnings 15 years earlier as Kemper County Agricultural High School. The town is adjacent to the Kansas City Southern Railroad, U.S. Route 45, and Mississippi Highway 16, 35 miles north of Meridian and 50 miles south of Columbus. The college owns 287 acres of land, 25 of which make up the campus. The central administrative office for all of EMCC's locations is in the Thomas L. Davis Jr. Administration Building.
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