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• Megan Eidt selected as 2025 ICC's Mississippi Humanities Teacher Award nominee

  Megan Lewis Eidt of Tupelo has been selected as Itawamba Community College’s Mississippi Humanities Teacher Award nominee for 2025.                 Eidt will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony March 28, 2025 at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. The event pays tribute to outstanding faculty in traditional humanities fields at each of the state’s institutions of higher learning.                 Since 2004, she has taught history at ICC, where her activities have included former two-term president of the Tupelo Campus Faculty Association and former adviser to the ICC Political Science and Humanities Clubs. Her professional memberships include ICC Faculty Association, National Council on Public History, Atlanta History Center and American Historical Association.                 Eidt earned the bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi; master’s degree from Mississippi College; and additional coursework from the Center of Bi-Lingual and Multi-Cultural Studies in Cuernavaca, Mexico.                 Her other activities include member of the Tupelo First United Methodist Church and supporter of both the Tupelo Community Theatre and the Lee County Humane Society.                 Eidt’s honors and awards include recognition as an ...
• ICC's Eidt to present free humanities lecture, Feb. 4

  Megan Lewis Eidt of Tupelo, Itawamba Community College’s 2025 Mississippi Humanities Teacher Award nominee, will present “In Your Face History: How Technology and Mass Media Have Transformed the Study of History,” Feb. 4 at 6 p.m. at the W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center at the Fulton Campus. Admission is free, and the public is invited to attend.             Eidt will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony, Mar. 28, at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. The event pays tribute to outstanding faculty in traditional humanities fields at each of the state’s institutions of higher learning.             Since 2004, she has taught history at ICC, where her activities have included former two-term president of the Tupelo Campus Faculty Association and former adviser to the ICC Political Science and Humanities Clubs. Her professional memberships include ICC Faculty Association, National Council on Public History, Atlanta History Center and American Historical Association.             Eidt earned the bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi, master’s degree from Mississippi College and additional coursework from the Center of Bi-Lingual and Multi-Cultural Studies in Cuernavaca, ...
• ICC Humanities to present "Professional Wrestling in the South," Feb. 18

  “Professional Wrestling in the South” will be the subject of a Humanities presentation at 6 p.m., Feb. 18, at the Itawamba Community College Fulton Campus in the W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center auditorium.             The public is invited to attend the event, which will feature a panel discussion by Dr. Chris Stacey, professor of history at Louisiana State University – Alexandria; Jeffrey Martin, manager of the Itawamba County Pratt Memorial Library; Dr. Chuck Westmoreland Jr., interim chair for the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and associate professor of history at Delta State University; and Dr. Toby Bates, associate professor of history at Mississippi State University – Meridian.             Stacey, whose research interests include the history of professional wrestling and 1980s cultural history, is the author of “Populism and Professional Wrestling in the Sunbelt South: From Rasslin’ to Sports Entertainment.”             Martin is a lifelong Mississippian and a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi. His first book, Professional Wrestling in Mississippi: A History,” was released by The History Press on June 5, 2023. It revisits everything from the carnival ...
• ICC's Colburn to be honored at Mississippi Humanities Council Awards ceremony

              Christy Colburn of Amory has been selected as Itawamba Community College’s Mississippi Humanities Teacher Award nominee for 2024.             Colburn will be among those honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony in March 2024 at the Two Mississippi Museums in Jackson. The event pays tribute to outstanding faculty in traditional humanities fields at each of the state’s institutions of higher learning.             In her 25th year as a music educator, Colburn serves as associate band director at ICC. Her responsibilities include conducting the concert band, applied woodwind studio, mixed woodwind ensemble, Rush Hour Saxophone Quartet, CenterStage show choir and color guard director/choreographer and teaches music appreciation. As needed, she also coaches the Indianettes and the spring pom squad.             A graduate of Aberdeen High School, Colburn earned the associate’s degree from ICC and both the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music education from the University of Mississippi. She was color guard captain and choreographer and started the first winter guard at ICC while a student. She held multiple leadership roles while at the University ...
• Morris selected as ICC's Mississippi Humanities Teacher Award nominee

              Keith Morris of Tupelo has been selected as Itawamba Community College’s Mississippi Humanities Teacher Award nominee for 2022.             He will present “Little Boxes” at 6 p.m., Mar. 28, in the W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center auditorium at the Fulton Campus.             Morris will be honored at the Mississippi Humanities Council Awards Ceremony Mar. 25 at 5:30 p.m. at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson.             “I teach alongside such talented, hardworking folks,” Morris said. “I feel honored to receive this award, not just for myself, but as a simple representative of my team.”             Morris earned the bachelor’s degree from the University of Mississippi and master’s degree from Mississippi State University. Since 2008, he has served as an English instructor at ICC, where he has co-created World Literature I and Drama Production IV and created Writing for Publication. He is poetry editor for “The Calliope” and sponsor for both Sigma Kappa Delta and Film Club. Morris is a poetry judge for SKD’s Hedera Helix literary journal and for ICC’s entries for the Mississippi Community College Creative ...
• ICC selects Anna Britt-Begnaud as Humanities Council award recipient

              Communications Division Chair and instructor Anna Britt-Begnaud has been selected as Itawamba Community College’s Mississippi Humanities Council honoree.             She will present “When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemon Meringue Pie: Success in Less Than Ideal Circumstances” at 6 p.m., Jan. 15, 2019, in the W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center auditorium at the Fulton Campus.             Britt-Begnaud joined the ICC staff in 2010 as academic adviser and English instructor. Beginning in 2011, she served as director of the Writing Centers until July 2015 when she was named to her current position. Her educational background includes the bachelor’s degree from Lipscomb University and the master’s degree from the University of Alabama. She serves as co-chair of the Honors Council and member of the College Council, curriculum, hybrid courses, instructional policies and planning and assessment committees at ICC; All-Mississippi Scholarship nominator; member of the UM Transitioning to College Writing planning committee; sponsor for ICC’s National Day on Writing Celebration and Competition and the Book Club and adviser for Omicron Zeta, ICC’s chapter of Sigma Kappa Delta, the ...