NEMCC REPRESENTED AT CAPITOL DAY PRESS CONFERENCE-- Northeast Mississippi Community College was represented at the annual Capitol Day press conference sponsored by the Mississippi Faculty Association for Community and Junior Colleges on February 28. Held in the rotunda of the state Capitol building in Jackson, the event was staged to publicly thank the Legislature for its commitment to support mid-level funding during the 2007 session and to officially request that it continue that commitment this year. Mid-level funding is a concept by which the community/junior colleges would receive per-student funding that is midway between that of K-12 students and regional public university students. Last year through Senate Bill 2364 the measure passed both the House of Representatives and the Senate without a dissenting vote and was signed into law by Governor Haley Barbour. Pictured is (back row l-r) business law instructor and Northeast Faculty Association legislative liaison Bill Odom; Justin Moody of Glen, vice president of Scholarship for Phi Theta Kappa; Morgan Ricks of Tupelo, vice president of leadership for Phi Theta Kappa; Student Government Association president Richard Kelly of Booneville; economics instructor and Northeast Faculty Association vice president John Yarber, (front row l-r) Phi Theta Kappa member Mindy Brady of Ripley; Mallory Brown of Booneville, and Leigh Beckam of Tupelo.