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 Roark to talk about the upcoming academic year at one of the nation's top community colleges. Ford and Roark discuss the announcement that the college will get a master-level counselor on the Booneville campus for two days a week to help evaluate student mental health. F...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford sits down with Marketing and Public Relations Specialists Liz Roark to talk about the upcoming academic year at one of the nation's top community colleges. Ford and Roark discuss the days and times for iPad pick-up at the college for first-year students and how the process will work and then transition into talking about dorm move...

As the 2022 Fall semester approaches, Northeast Mississippi Community College's TigerTalk has reinvented itself by bringing over Liz Roark, the college's Marketing, Recruiting, and Public Relations Specialist from the Northeast NOW podcast to work side-by-side with Northeast president Dr. Ricky G. Ford on Mississippi's longest-running community college podcast. In this short 10-minute segment, Roa...

As the 2022 Fall semester approaches, Northeast Mississippi Community College's TigerTalk has reinvented itself by bringing over Liz Roark, the college's Marketing, Recruiting, and Public Relations Specialist from the Northeast NOW podcast to work side-by-side with Northeast president Dr. Ricky G. Ford on Mississippi's longest-running community college podcast. In a short 10-minute segment, Roark...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford returns with another installment of Mississippi's longest-running community college podcast. In this 203rd episode, President Ford discusses how busy the summer has been at one of the country's top community colleges with summer school, camps, and training for employees. Northeast personnel are currently undergoing CPR training to...

Northeast Mississippi Community College president Dr. Ricky G. Ford returns with another installment of Mississippi's longest-running community college podcast. In this 202nd episode, President Ford discusses an MOU that has been signed with Dr. Dennis here in Booneville to help provide healthcare for Northeast employees and students. The veteran educator encourages those wanting to know more to w...

After taking a week off following the 200th TigerTalk episode, Northeast president Dr. Ricky Ford returns with a quick 9 1/2 minute podcast to update all listeners on everything Northeast Mississippi Community College. Ford announces that the college is looking at renovating its residential housing for students and will start with new air conditioning/dehumidifying units in Yarber and Murphy halls...

To celebrate 200 episodes, Northeast president Dr. Ricky G. Ford gives a significant update on everything happening at one of the premier community colleges in the United States - Northeast Mississippi Community College. Ford celebrates the 200th episode of the podcast that began on October 10, 2017, and has run for almost five years giving the employees and students all the information about Nort...

In 10 minutes, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford is happy to see people out and about this summer and with that comes a bevy of summer activities at Northeast. Last week, both the Tiger baseball team and the Lady Tiger softball team welcomed nearly 200 campers to the Northeast Baseball/Softball Complex on Third Street and new women's basketball coach Chelsey Rhoades has already had a busy summer w...

In a little over 11 minutes, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford gives a brief rundown of everything that is happening at one of the premier institutions in the United States...Northeast Mississippi Community College. Ford talks about the enrollment numbers for the summer sessions and those numbers topping those of earlier summers before the global covid shutdown and fall in summer numbers in 2020....

In under 10 minutes, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford gives a brief rundown of everything that is happening at one of the premier institutions in the United States...Northeast Mississippi Community College. Ford addresses the need more decorum at graduation and changes that may be brought on by excess noise and talking during commencement exercises at the college including adding more graduation...

In just over 10 minutes, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford gives a brief rundown of everything that is happening at one of the premier institutions in the United States...Northeast Mississippi Community College. Ford recaps the last week where the college saw many of its students walk in graduations such as the Health Sciences graduation, the Associate of Arts graduation, special softball graduati...

In just under 11 minutes, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford gives a brief rundown of everything that is happening at one of the premier institutions in the United States...Northeast Mississippi Community College. In a quick rundown, Ford talks about the plans for graduation on Thursday, May 12 and Friday, May 13 with the processional beginning at 6:15 p.m. entering the Bonner Arnold Coliseum and t...

In just over 11 minutes, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford gives a brief rundown of everything that is happening at one of the premier institutions in the United States...Northeast Mississippi Community College. In a quick end-of-the-semester rundown, Ford talks about final exams and graduation at Northeast and the importance of faculty turning their grades in on time, and students, who want to co...

In just under 10 minutes, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford gives a brief rundown of everything that is happening at one of the premier institutions in the United States...Northeast Mississippi Community College. Ford discusses all the changes happening at the top community college in Mississippi such as changes to the graduation times on May 12, May 13 and May 16. Graduation will now happen at 6:...

In just over 10 minutes, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford gives a brief rundown of everything that is happening at one of the premier institutions in the United States...Northeast Mississippi Community College. Ford announces that the college has hired a Director of Advising & Guidance and gives his support behind that position as a way of making the college's students successful. In addition to...

In just under 11 minutes, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford thanks everyone for the calls, texts, letters, and concerns over the passing of his mother last week. In a heartfelt message, Ford expresses thanks to the Northeast family for making sure his family was comforted in this time of sorrow. In an update to the Strategic Doing committees, Ford talks about the total involvement that everyone ha...

In this week's episode, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford gives some great news to the employees of Northeast Mississippi Community College, the Mississippi Legislature is sending them a gift that will boost their pocketbooks in not only 2023 but 2024 as well. Tune into this week's podcast to see just how much the college will be able to increase employee pay. In addition to being able to award th...

In this week's episode, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford returns from a two-week hiatus to inform the public about all the things happening at one of the top community colleges in the nation. Ford tells listeners that the college is on the downhill side of the semester and there are just a few weeks remaining until graduation and students will be leaving campus to transfer to four-year colleges a...

In this week's episode, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford shares information about many events happening on campus including the college's upcoming Spring Break. Ford gives a rundown on all the extracurricular activities such as baseball, softball, men and women's tennis, golf and archery all keeping the Sports Information Department at Northeast busy. Ford talks about the recent end to the men's...

In this week's episode, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford shares updates from the college's strategic doing committees including the plan to place AEDs in every building on campus and have someone in those buildings trained to use the devices. Ford also talks about the ways that Strategic Doing has undertaken to improve the quality between Northeast employees, students, and the community and each...

In this week's episode, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford shares a major change to graduation in May (May 12 and May 13 in the Bonner Arnold Coliseum). In addition to the major change to commencement ceremonies, Ford talks about all the events happening in and around Northeast and all that is going on with the college. Northeast athletics is seeing a majority of its sports teams in action this wee...

In this week's episode, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford shares some important news as it concerns masks and the coronavirus at Northeast Mississippi Community College. In addition to announcing a reduction from required to recommended masks, the president also addresses how busy the Spring Semester will be in the coming weeks. Not only have baseball and softball fully ramped up into their respec...

In this week's episode, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford talks about all the events and people visiting the Northeast campus including the annual Division 1-3A basketball tournament returning to the Bonner Arnold Coliseum on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. While mentioning high school athletics, Ford also talks about Northeast athletics and an important game with Pearl River on Thursday night at 6...

In this week's episode, Northeast president Ricky G. Ford talks about a major donation to the career and technical education programs at Northeast, which will happen at the Northeast at Ripley center on Wednesday, February 2. Not only does Ford talk about how the donation will change the lives of Northeast students, but he addresses the college's recent acquisition and how the college is recouping...