As a Community College in Mississippi Digs Out, Staffers and Students Look to a Difficult Future

by E Wayne Ross on September 8, 2005

Chronicle of Higher Education: As a Community College in Mississippi Digs Out, Staffers and Students Look to a Difficult Future

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s administrators, employees, and students are beginning to pick up the debris of their campuses, homes, and lives after Hurricane Katrina plowed through this state just over a week ago.

Classes are scheduled to resume on Monday, exactly two weeks after the storm came ashore, at the four campuses of Mississippi’s largest community college, which had enrolled about 10,500 students for this fall.