Tiger Talk Podcast by Northeast Mississippi Community College

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss all the students that the college serves but focus on the non-traditional students and how they impact the student make-up of Northeast. Ford talks about reasons some students step away from their educational dreams and then come back in life and other...

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to talk about the college celebrating its 75th anniversary. Calvery asks about pivotal moments in the college's history that have helped to shape Northeast as one of the top educational institutions in the nation. Ford not only discusses the college's founding, t...

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss all that goes into the college making a call for weather or other events and how that affects the operations of the college, its employees, students and community members. Ford also talks about the ease of transitioning classes to an online format, wit...

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the inclement weather that has caused the college to shut down for the remainder of the week and switch from in-person to virtual learning. Ford also addresses the addition of cross country in the fall of 2024, the hiring of a cross country coach, the...

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the college's dedication to customer service training and what Northeast is doing to do more to help the customers it serves -- whether it is students, alumni or community members. Northeast will undergo customer service training in the Spring of 2024...

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the veteran educator's goals and aspirations for the 2024 Spring semester. Ford talks about projects coming to the college's Booneville campus such as finishing the HVAC renovations in Gordon and Hargett halls as well as the Burgess Fitness Center, a l...

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford talks about everything that the college has accomplished during the Fall 2023 semester. Ford discusses the enrollment increase that the college saw during the Fall 2023 semester - over 200 students from the previous year, the college's selection as a Great Colleges to Work for Honor Roll status, the selection of Northeast as an Ap...

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the different advancements and trends in technology that the college has embraced and will embrace during the coming year to help keep up with the differences in the student population year over year.  🎙️ TigerTalk  – where Northeast tells its sto...

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the college's recent legislative luncheon, where college officials welcome elected representatives to campus to give them information and a tour of one of the top community colleges in the nation. Calvery and Ford discuss the importance of inviting leg...

Northeast Mississippi Community College President Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss ways in which students can manage the stress of the end of the semester. The veteran educator offers several tips on how to address end-of-the-semester exams. From taking breaks to not studying all night and getting a full night’s sleep to eating corre...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the steps that the college has taken to keep its students, employees and members of the community safe. Whether it is an active shooter, inclement weather or any other incident that can happen, Northeast has taken the neccesary steps to make sure that...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss what the college president is proud of the college accomplishing in the past 11 months from being named an Apple Distinguished School for the second straight three-year section to receiving a $15.8 million technology grant from EON Technologies to how...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss what the veteran educator would say to high school seniors as they are wrapping up their final year in high school. Ford draws upon his experience as a women's basketball coach recruiting high-quality athletes, his time as an admissions counselor befor...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss some of the favorite memories of the 2023 fall semester. Ford talks to different employees and gauges what they have liked and enjoyed about the 2023 fall semester and shares a tidbit of those memories. To wrap up the time, Ford gives listeners the Nor...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the importance of Northeast's desire to see all of northeast Mississippi become digitally fluent. Ford discusses the differences in digital literacy and digital fluency and how the college is working to make not only students, employees but community m...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) has been around longer than many people realize and how the college can embrace the use of AI in the classroom as an aid in preparing students for the workforce and giving them a top-notch education instead of being afr...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss what Ford's vision for Northeast in not only the short-term but the long-term as well and how the college will continue to invest in new technologies and new instruction methods to keep it as one of the top educational institutions in the nation. To wr...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss the college's recent Tiger Apprenticeship Interview Day that goes hand-in-hand with the Tiger Apprenticeship through the college's Division of Business and Engineering Technology. Ford discusses the ways the program is beneficial to the students, the c...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how important it is to get the Northeast brand out in front of today's high school students. The duo talks about the recent Northeast NOW recruitment event that saw 14 high schools come to the college on a Friday morning for a more in-depth tour of the...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how the college takes steps to ensure not only the mental health of its students but its employees as well. Ford talks about the lecture by former coach Mark Potter on Tuesday, September 19 where the former basketball headman came in to speak in the Bo...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how the college keeps up with the needs of its ever-changing student population. From one year to the next, the needs of the students are constantly changing and Northeast uses a variety of processes to keep up with the needs of the students and stays...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how the college partners with four-year colleges and universities to ensure the success of its students after their time in the City of Hospitality. Ford also discusses how the Success Center and the Counseling Center at Northeast play a significant ro...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss upcoming events on campus and news about several renovations, athletic events, and student activities, in addition to Northeast's position as one of the premier institutions of higher education in the country. 🎙️ TigerTalk  – where Northeast tells...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how Northeast and the Northeast Development and Alumni Association stay connected with college alums and how the Northeast Development Foundation and Alumni Association uses its unique position to leverage the Northeast alumni base to benefit current s...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialist Liz Calvery to discuss how Northeast promotes its extracurricular activities to students and how the college is bolstering its extracurricular offerings with the addition of an Intramural Coordinator and a consorted effort from organizations, groups and committees to have mo...