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Outdoor rec leadership program has MGCCC excited: campus officials anticipate growth.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 25-JUL-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Outdoor rec leadership program has MGCCC excited: campus officials anticipate growth.(Focus)(Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College )

Article Excerpt
GAUTIER -- These are not your mom and dad's college classes. The new outdoor recreation leadership degree program at the Jackson County Campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC) has classes in canoeing, sea kayaking, backpacking and snow skiing. Officials with the school are enthusiastic about the program and believe it's the wave of the future.

"Even Mississippi is becoming more urban, and people want to go do different things," said Dr. Wayne Taylor, who heads up the program. "My dad grew up on a farm in Alabama and would have never done this, but people are not growing up on farms anymore. Cities want recreation opportunities because it adds to the quality of life."

He and Dr. Rick Christmas, vice president of the Jackson County campus, hope to see the program, now in its second year, grow and become well known among the...

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