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• Constitution Day set for Oct. 22

              Itawamba Community College will celebrate Constitution Day, Oct. 22, with a presentation entitled “Power to the People by the People: Northeast Mississippi’s Role in Bringing Electricity to Rural America.”             The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. in the W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center auditorium at the Fulton Campus.              Panelists include Brandon Presley, North Mississippi Public Service Commissioner; Michael Callahan, executive vice president and CEO of Electric Cooperatives of Mississippi; and Chris Stevenson, chairman of the ICC Social Science Division. The Master of Ceremonies for the evening will be ICC History Instructor Megan Eidt.             Members of the audience will have an opportunity for a question and answer session at the conclusion of the presentation.             The event, which is sponsored by the ICC Political Science Club, is free and open to the public.             For more information, contact Chris Stevenson, chairman of the ICC Social Science Division, at castevenson@iccms.edu or (662) 862-8169.
• State of the District Address

              Itawamba Community College will host a State of the District address featuring U.S. Senators Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith and U.S. Representative Trent Kelly, at 1:30 p.m., Oct. 29, at the Davis Event Center on the Fulton Campus.             The public is invited to the question-and-answer format event, which is sponsored by ICC’s Political Science Club.  Members of the community are encouraged to submit questions to constitutionday@iccms.edu using State of the District in the subject line. Some questions will be selected from those sent in advance.             The event is free.             For more information, contact Chris Stevenson, Social Science Division chairman, at (662) 862-8169 or email castevenson@iccms.edu.
• ICC receives AACC grant to support National Voter Registration Day event

  Itawamba Community College has received a grant from the American Association of Community Colleges to host an event to support National Voter Registration Day.             The $2,700 grant will be used to engage students in voter registration, according to Nathan Ward, director of Instructional Support Services, who along with Lynn Millender, Social Science division chair, submitted the application.             “For several years, our Social Science Division has coordinated our annual Constitution Day event at ICC, and many of those focused on voter registration,” Millender said. “With this award from AACC, this year we will have an opportunity to impact students on both the ICC Fulton and Tupelo campuses as well as the Belden Center by participating in National Voter Registration Day, Tuesday, September 17. In addition, we plan to launch a social media campaign and provide printed material that will help students better navigate the entire voting process,” she continued. “Organizations such as ICC’s Humanities Club, elected Circuit Clerks in counties within the college’s service district (Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe and Pontotoc) and ICC’s faculty and staff will all work together ...