{"id":3640,"date":"2023-02-20T10:19:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2023-02-20T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:19:14","slug":"mississippi-humanities-council-honors-jones-colleges-tim-morris-as-teacher-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/mississippi-humanities-council-honors-jones-colleges-tim-morris-as-teacher-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Humanities Council honors Â鶹ֱ²¥&#8217;s Tim Morris as Teacher of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ELLISVILLE \u2013 Mississippi Humanities Council Assistant Director, Carol Andersen presented Â鶹ֱ²¥ English instructor, Tim Morris with a check for being selected as the Â鶹ֱ²¥ 2022-2023 Mississippi Humanities Teacher of the Year. He will be honored by the Mississippi Humanities Council in Jackson, on March 24, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/tim-morris-speaking-cu6-small-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/tim-morris-speaking-cu6-small-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/tim-morris-speaking-cu6-small-1024x976.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/tim-morris-speaking-cu6-small-768x732.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/tim-morris-speaking-cu6-small.jpg 1244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am very honored to be selected as Humanities Teacher of the Year for Jones, and I enjoyed sharing my passion for <em>The Epic of Gilgamesh,<\/em> to the Â鶹ֱ²¥ community and family recently,\u201d said Morris, a JC English and World Literature instructor. \u201cThe plot intrigues me because as the term \u2018epic\u2019 suggests, it is a huge story filled with exciting adventures, but at its core is a man who learns to appreciate his own humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After his presentation, Morris was presented with an acrylic award to commemorate the honor by Â鶹ֱ²¥\u2019s Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dr. Tessa Flowers and Â鶹ֱ²¥ President, Dr. Jesse Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ws-tim-and-audiencesmall-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ws-tim-and-audiencesmall-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ws-tim-and-audiencesmall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ws-tim-and-audiencesmall-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ws-tim-and-audiencesmall-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ws-tim-and-audiencesmall.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELLISVILLE \u2013 Mississippi Humanities Council Assistant Director, Carol Andersen presented Â鶹ֱ²¥ English instructor, Tim Morris with a check for being selected as the Â鶹ֱ²¥ 2022-2023 Mississippi Humanities Teacher of the Year. He will be honored by the Mississippi Humanities Council in Jackson, on March 24, 2023. \u201cI am very honored to be selected &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/mississippi-humanities-council-honors-jones-colleges-tim-morris-as-teacher-of-the-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mississippi Humanities Council honors Â鶹ֱ²¥&#8217;s Tim Morris as Teacher of the Year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3647,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions\/3647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}