Sandra Jackson is the Chair of the MTC Commission, the college's highest governing body, whose members are appointed by the governor of South Carolina. She also began her higher education journey here at the college.

She joins us to tell her personal origin story when, at 17, she was denied the career she wanted because her widowed mother could not afford to send her out of a state to the program she wanted to join. Crushed, she turned to MTC for an alternate path. 

It was here that her hurt feelings revived and she became alive to the possibilities that higher education can bring to someone just starting out. She talks about the necessity of change and has words from the wisdom of experience and perspective for our students just starting out who become discouraged and uncertain as they navigate a college education. 

Join us to hear her words to students, faculty and staff about the courage to begin and begin again and to build the life and communities of our dreams. These beginnings are our mission.

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