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Southwest Tennessee Community College

Shelby County Schools hosts inaugural Senior Night at Southwest

Southwest faculty, staff and students enjoyed meeting more than 200 Shelby County high school seniors and their families Feb. 20 at Senior Night on the Macon Cove Campus. Shelby County Schools (SCS) hosted the event at Southwest for the first time....

Southwest: In the News

Links to recent online news reports on community college trends, Tennessee Board of Regents coverage and more.

Civil rights legend Bertha Rodgers Looney honored with Share the Love Award

Bertha Rodgers Looney made history when she and seven other African-American students walked onto the University of Memphis (then Memphis State University) campus in the fall of 1959. They were the first African Americans to integrate the College...

From the President

Many hands make light work is an old adage that applies whether you are working on a small household project or redesigning, reinventing and resetting one of the largest community colleges in the state of Tennessee. Community is one of our Focus...