SCOOP

Scoop September/October 2021 Edition

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

The famous tagline from Spike Lee’s thought-provoking 1988 film “Do the Right Thing” still rings true more than 30 years later: “It’s the hottest day of the summer. You can do nothing, you can do something, or you can do the right thing.”...

Get ready to SOAR! Nominate Southwest students, faculty, staff and partners by Oct. 14!

Nominations are now open for Tennessee Board of Regents’ 2022 SOAR Awards! This is the fourth year the SOAR (Statewide Outstanding Achievement Recognition) awards take flight in recognizing excellent students, faculty and staff. TBR also names...

Southwest goes to all virtual classes and operations Sept. 7-11

Southwest Tennessee Community College has elected to go fully virtual with classes and operations the five days immediately following the Labor Day holiday to lessen the risk of coronavirus infection associated with holiday activities. This 5-day...

CYBER BYTES

Bad actors have launched multiple attacks against Southwest students, faculty and staff in recent weeks with scam emails. These deceptive messages are disguised as official messages from a Southwest email address or a distribution list from an outside...

Goode-Freeman new Gill Center director

Lamecia Goode-Freeman joined Southwest in 2003 as a temporary employee in the Admissions and Records department. Not long after, she joined the staff full-time and has served in various roles ranging from administrative assistant to financial aid...

THEC student representative nominations due Sept. 20

Are you a Southwest student interested in sharing the College’s student perspective with the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR), Southwest’s governing body? You can represent the voice and vote of students’ point of view as a Tennessee Higher...