News From Southwest


TBR, Southwest selected for First Scholars Network

The Center for First-Generation Student Success, an initiative of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and The Suder Foundation, recently welcomed the thirteen community colleges in the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR)...

Read More >

Southwest Tennessee Community College hires Carol Ash as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Workforce Development

Southwest Tennessee Community College welcomes Dr. Carol Ash as the college’s new Vice President of Academic Affairs and Workforce Development. Ash begins her tenure effective June 26, 2023.

Read More >

Southwest Tennessee Community College hires new Associate Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Communications

Southwest Tennessee Community College has hired Jeremy Shirley as the college’s new Associate Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Communications effective April 17, 2023. In his new role, Shirley will lead the department of marketing and...

Read More >

Southwest Baseball Team Continues Record Breaking Season at Region VII Tourney

The Southwest baseball team, winners of a school-record 41 games during the regular season, enters next week’s TCCAA/NJCAA Region VII Tournament as the number three seed and will play sixth seed and host school Volunteer State on Monday, May 8...

Read More >

Southwest Tennessee Community College Celebrates Saluqi Baseball’s Record-Breaking Season!

Southwest Tennessee Community College will hold a celebration for the Saluqi baseball team’s record-breaking season on Monday, May 15 at 9:30 a.m. in the Fulton Auditorium on the College’s Macon Cove Campus. The Southwest baseball team, under...

Read More >

Southwest Tennessee Community College to hold Commencement at Renasant Convention Center May 13, 2023

Southwest Tennessee Community College’s President Tracy D. Hall will confer more than 1,200 associate degrees and certificates upon the Class of 2023 at the college’s Commencement, May 13, at the Renasant Convention Center, 255 N. Main Street,...

Read More >

Southwest Softball Team To Take On Roane State In Region Tourney Play-In Game

The Southwest softball team enters next week’s TCCAA/NJCAA Region VII Tournament as the number nine seed and will play eighth seed and Roane State in a ‘play-in game’ on Sunday at 10am in Gallatin, Tennessee. The winner advances to the double-elimination...

Read More >

Southwest Tennessee Community College launches Southwest Workforce Solutions Center at Open House and Career Fair April 20, 2023

Southwest Tennessee Community College is poised to become the regions’ go-to resource for quality training on Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs with the launch of the Southwest Workforce Solutions Center on April 20, 2023 during an...

Read More >

Southwest Tennessee Community College Chief Strategy Officer/Chief of Staff Jacqueline Taylor named 2023 Sterling Awards winner

Dr. Jacqueline Taylor, Chief Strategy Officer/Chief of Staff at Southwest Tennessee Community College in Memphis, Tenn., has been named among the Top 20 most influential women in West Tennessee. Taylor received her recognition as a 2023 Sterling...

Read More >

Tennessee Dept. of Health awards Southwest Tennessee Community College $500K grant to fund COVID-19 testing sites and prevention services

The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) awarded Southwest Tennessee Community College a $500,000 Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) State Colleges and Universities grant last month to fund the college’s COVID-19 testing and community outreach...

Read More >