Jackson Jambalaya

I hear Millsaps is struggling. Maybe they can open a Dept. of Diesel Studies? Seems more logical than a fine arts degree.

any diesel mechanic schools that have a night program?

How long before H1B's are granted for diesel mechanics and machinists? H1B's are already lowering the pay for computer science jobs. Just wait until there are no driving jobs left. This nation isn't ready for the 2020s.

This advertisement is part of a well-coordinated campaign to prop up community colleges....along with a well placed article on how community colleges contribute a few billion to Mississippi's economy. Pffft. The community college system is RAPIDLY becoming 13th grade, and will likely become part of the secondary K-12 system regarding funding formulas. There will be MASSIVE layoffs, and they are scared to death. Students can no longer make any long term commitments to educational achievement....not even two years. They want it NOW NOW NOW. So, they're praying that career-tech enrollment will sky rocket to save them.....NOT. GOING. TO. HAPPEN.

@6:08am I assure you, this (and other previous advertisements by the same organization) are in no way associated with the "pat on the back" campaign launched by the community colleges earlier this week. The way I see it, if the community colleges are such a great product, then why are they working so hard to convince legislators and Mississippians? Shouldn't their work product speak for them?

@8:13am Excellent question. Answer: Starting with the economic correction of 2008, enrollment at community colleges across the country skyrocketed which always happens in a downturn. Now that the economy is quite strong, their enrollment has, and continues to plummet. Their "leadership" (LOL) did not properly anticipate the knowing contraction in enrollment when economies come back up, so now they are DESPERATELY campaigning on multiple fronts for career tech funding to keep the funding flowing in. Community colleges are still attempting to spend millions on new buildings and their renovations....After never being in debt, one community college is even encumbering a $24 million dollar bond to build a new Fine Arts Auditorium (WTF?) and already spent $750,000 on an astro turf football field while academic programs are being cannibalized into "dual enrollment" programs in the high schools. It's truly tragic. But THAT's why you're seeing a coordinated effort to promote community colleges.....the enrollment isn't there anymore, and is being blended into high schools, but those fat cat presidents still want their $200,000 salaries while multiple underlings are making $75,000. Believe it because it's happening. Where or where is Shad White when you need him? Community colleges were meant to reach and serve a specific population, not be the personal plaything and fiefdom for the whims of some wannabe bureaucrat.