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WCU, Tradition unveil health care zone plans

MBJ Staff — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:48:58 +0000

HARRISON COUNTY — William Carey University and the Tradition community intend to create a health care industry zone centered around WCU’s Tradition campus on Highway 67 in Harrison County. At a news conference, Jerry Bracey, dean of WCU’s Tradition campus, congratulated Rep. Hank Zuber of Ocean Springs and Sen. Sean Tindell of Gulfport for sponsoring [...]

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MC, Chinese university sign exchange agreement

Associated Press — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:17:24 +0000

CLINTON — Mississippi College and Hubei Polytechnic University in China have agreed to faculty and student exchanges between the two institutions. The agreement sets up a “2 plus 2 degree” program where a student would spend the first two years at HBPU and the last two years taking classes at MC. Others would involve Hubei [...]

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William Carey closing New Orleans campus after four decades

Associated Press — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:57:05 +0000

HATTIESBURG — William Carey University is closing its New Orleans campus. University President Tommy King tells the Hattiesburg American enrollment in the school’s nursing program has not come back since Hurricane Katrina. Since the late 1980s, the nursing program has resided on the campus of the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. Barbara Hamilton, executive assistant [...]

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Noonkester, longtime William Carey president, dies at 88

Associated Press — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:14:24 +0000

HATTIESBURG — J. Ralph Noonkester, who served as president of William Carey University for 33 years, has died at the age of 88. Officials with Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home in Hattiesburg say Noonkester died early Monday after a brief illness. The cause of death was not released. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at [...]

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William Carey, MGCCC sign new partnership agreement

Associated Press — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:51:33 +0000

HATTIESBURG and MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST — William Carey University and Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College have signed an agreement that allows students to easily transfer credits. The partnership will affect students majoring in nursing and criminal justice at MGCCC. For criminal justice students, once they receive their associate’s degree at Gulf Coast and they decide [...]

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