2019-2020 President's Report

‘An Evening With’ Series Established Herman Boone, the legendary head football coach at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., and the inspiration behind the 2000 movie Remember the Titans , addressed a packed Huff Auditorium in November 2013 as ECCC’s first “An Evening With” series speaker. Astronaut Fred Haise, who served as the lunar module pilot during the ill-fated Apollo 13 space mission in 1970 and is portrayed by Bill Paxton in the film Apollo 13 , and actor David Payne portraying C.S. Lewis were other “An Evening With” presenters. These free events are made possible through the financial support of the ECCC Foundation and the Oliphant-Martin Faculty Excellence Endowment. Top 10 Bellwether Finalist The ECCC program “Connecting College with Communities” was named a Top 10 Bellwether Finalist in the nation in January 2015 in the Planning, Governance, and Finance Category. The program was recognized at the Community Colleges Futures Assembly in Orlando, Fla. TAACCCT Grant Awarded ECCC was awarded a $2.5

grant program and co-administered by the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education. The grant was used to provide training in information technology, healthcare, energy, and advanced manufacturing at the Louisville Career Advancement Center. Winston County Partnership ECCC and Taylor Machine Works, a major manufacturer of power industrial trucks located in Louisville, announced a partnership in October 2015 to prepare individuals for skilled jobs at the growing manufacturing company. As part of the partnership, applicants for jobs at Taylor must have successfully passed the ACT WorkKeys Career Readiness Assessment offered by ECCC, which provides the assessment and

helps applicants prepare for the test. Taylor also started giving preference to individuals who complete the Manufacturing Skills-Basic training program offered at ECCC’s Louisville Career Advancement Center. Military Friendly School ECCC continued to be designated as a Military Friendly School by Victory Media, one

million grant in 2014 to provide workforce training opportunities in Winston County, one of the five counties the college serves. ECCC was among 270 community colleges

of only a few community

colleges in Mississippi to carry the designation. Institutions earning the Military Friendly School designation are evaluated using both public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey

nationwide and the first announced Mississippi

16 completed by the school and students. Military Friendly Schools is a comprehensive resource provided to service members and their families to help them select the best college, university, or trade school to receive the education and training needed to pursue a civilian career. COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS community college to receive the grant, which is provided by the Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training (TAACCCT) competitive