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Region XXIII of the National Junior College Athletic Association
National Junior College Athletic Association
The National Junior College Athletic Association , founded in 1938, is an association of community college and junior college athletic departments throughout the United States. It is held as Divisions and Regions. The current NJCAA holds 24 separate regions.-History:The idea for the NJCAA was...

 consists of two conferences, the MISS-LOU Junior College Conference
MISS-LOU Junior College Conference
The MISS-LOU Junior College Conference, also known as ', is hosted by the National Junior College Athletic Association. Forming Region XXIII with the MACJC, the MLJCC is a junior college conference for many Tech and Community Colleges. Conference championships are held in most sports and...

 (MLJCC)
and Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges
Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges
The Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges is one of the two conferences that make up Region XXIII of the National Junior College Athletic Association along with the MLJCC...

 (MACJC)
. Meridian Community College
Meridian Community College
Meridian Community College is a two-year public community college in Meridian, Mississippi . Founded in 1937, it was originally named Meridian Junior College but changed its name in 1987.-History:...

 has been a member of both MLJCC and MACJC but left the conferences in 2002 and 2007, respectively.

MLJCC Members

  • Baton Rouge Community College
    Baton Rouge Community College
    Baton Rouge Community College, an open admissions, two-year post-secondary public community college in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was established on June 28, 1995. The college settled into a permanent location in 1998...

  • Bossier Parish Community College
    Bossier Parish Community College
    Bossier Parish Community College is a two-year institution of higher education established in 1967 by the Louisiana State Legislature, initially as a pilot program to test the feasibility of commuter two-year colleges...

  • Delgado Community College
    Delgado Community College
    Delgado Community College ' is a Louisiana public community college with campuses throughout the New Orleans metropolitan area, the East and West Banks of New Orleans, the East Bank of Jefferson Parish and on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain in Covington and Slidell in St. Tammany Parish...

  • Louisiana State University at Eunice
    Louisiana State University at Eunice
    Louisiana State University Eunice is a community college located in Eunice, Louisiana, that currently serves around 3,300 full and part-time students.LSU Eunice currently offers degrees and diplomas up to the associate's degree level...

     (baseball and softball)
  • Southern University at Shreveport
    Southern University at Shreveport
    Southern University at Shreveport, Louisiana or Southern University at Shreveport is a two-year campus of the historically black Southern University System. SUS, pushed to fruition by the administration of Governor John J. McKeithen, opened for instruction on September 19, 1967...


MACJC Members

  • Coahoma Community College
    Coahoma Community College
    Coahoma Community College is a community college and HBCU located in Coahoma County, Mississippi, approximately four miles north of the city of Clarksdale...

  • Copiah-Lincoln Community College
    Copiah-Lincoln Community College
    Copiah-Lincoln Community College is a comprehensive public community college with its main campus located in Wesson, Mississippi, about south of Jackson, the state capitol and north of New Orleans. The Co-Lin District serves a seven-county area including Adams, Copiah, Franklin County,...

  • East Central Community College
    East Central Community College
    East Central Community College is a junior college located in Decatur, Mississippi. ECCC serves a five-county district: Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Scott and Winston counties. It opened in September 1928-Athletics:...

  • East Mississippi Community College
    East Mississippi Community College
    East Mississippi Community College , also known as East Mississippi Junior College, is a community college system in Mississippi with its headquarters in the Thomas L. Davis, Jr...

  • Hinds Community College
    Hinds Community College
    Hinds Community College is a community college with its main campus located in Raymond, Mississippi, about five miles west of Jackson, the state capital. The Hinds Community College District includes Hinds County, Claiborne County, part of Copiah County, Rankin County, and Warren County...

  • Holmes Community College
    Holmes Community College
    Holmes Community College is a community college located in the state of Mississippi, headquartered in the Goodman Campus in Goodman.The system has three campuses in the cities of Grenada, Ridgeland, and Goodman, which is the location of the main or original campus. Holmes has satellite campuses in...

  • Itawamba Community College
    Itawamba Community College
    Itawamba Community College, formerly known as Itawamba Junior College, is a community college in Mississippi, United States, with two campuses; the main campus is located in Fulton, and a branch campus in Tupelo that mainly handles technical education programs. It serves Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee,...

  • Jones County Junior College
    Jones County Junior College
    Jones County Junior College is a junior college accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools located in Ellisville, Mississippi. JCJC serves its eight-county district consisting of Clarke, Covington, Greene, Jasper, Jones, Perry, Smith and Wayne...

  • Mississippi Delta Community College
    Mississippi Delta Community College
    Mississippi Delta Community College is a community college based in Moorhead, Mississippi which is located in Sunflower County. It also offers courses at locations in Drew, Greenville, Greenwood, and Indianola, Mississippi. Its mascot is the Trojan warrior. The college's president is Dr. Larry G....

  • Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
    Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
    Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College consists of four campuses and four centers: the main campus, located in Perkinston, Mississippi; the Jackson County Campus, in Gautier; the Jefferson Davis Campus, in Gulfport; the Community Campus, a non-traditional campus without walls; the George County...

  • Northeast Mississippi Community College
    Northeast Mississippi Community College
    Northeast Mississippi Community College, also known as NEMCC, is a public, comprehensive community college. NEMCC is a located in Booneville, Mississippi, USA...

  • Northwest Mississippi Community College
    Northwest Mississippi Community College
    Northwest Mississippi Community College is a two-year public community college located in Senatobia, Mississippi, USA and has been in existence since 1928. As of August 2008, Northwest's enrollment exceeds 7,100 students. There are approximately 3,000 students on the Senatobia campus—1,100 of which...

  • Pearl River Community College
    Pearl River Community College
    Pearl River Community College is a public community college in Poplarville, Mississippi, USA. It was founded as Pearl River County Agricultural High School in 1909, then became the first junior college in Mississippi in 1921.-History:...

  • Southwest Mississippi Community College
    Southwest Mississippi Community College
    Southwest Mississippi Community College is a two-year community college located in Summit, Mississippi, with accreditation from the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.-History:...


Independent Members

  • Meridian Community College
    Meridian Community College
    Meridian Community College is a two-year public community college in Meridian, Mississippi . Founded in 1937, it was originally named Meridian Junior College but changed its name in 1987.-History:...

  • Louisiana State University at Eunice (women's basketball)

See also

  • National Junior College Athletic Association
    National Junior College Athletic Association
    The National Junior College Athletic Association , founded in 1938, is an association of community college and junior college athletic departments throughout the United States. It is held as Divisions and Regions. The current NJCAA holds 24 separate regions.-History:The idea for the NJCAA was...

  • MISS-LOU Junior College Conference
    MISS-LOU Junior College Conference
    The MISS-LOU Junior College Conference, also known as ', is hosted by the National Junior College Athletic Association. Forming Region XXIII with the MACJC, the MLJCC is a junior college conference for many Tech and Community Colleges. Conference championships are held in most sports and...

  • Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges
    Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges
    The Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges is one of the two conferences that make up Region XXIII of the National Junior College Athletic Association along with the MLJCC...

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