{"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 Jones College&#8217;s Tim Morris as Teacher of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ELLISVILLE \u2013 Mississippi Humanities Council Assistant Director, Carol Andersen presented Jones College English instructor, Tim Morris with a check for being selected as the Jones College 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 Jones College 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 Jones College\u2019s Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dr. Tessa Flowers and Jones College 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 Jones College English instructor, Tim Morris with a check for being selected as the Jones College 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 Jones College&#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}]}}