Scoop November/December 2020 Edition
Southwest student success efforts featured in Education Trust report on segregation
The Education Trust, a national nonprofit that works to close opportunity gaps that disproportionately affect students of color and students from low-income families, recently published “Segregation Forever?”, where it examined Black and Latino...
Southwest M.O.S.T. kicks off Entrepreneurship Institute with Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Clifton Taulbert
More than 100 individuals tuned in to MS Teams Nov. 4 to mark the launch of the Men of Southwest Tennessee Entrepreneurship Institute and to hear words of wisdom Clifton Taulbert, a noted entrepreneur and famed author of Once Upon a Time When We...
Complete mandatory IT training by Saturday, Dec. 19
The deadline to take the mandatory information security awareness training is quickly approaching. Every Southwest employee is required to complete information security training by Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020.
SouthwestWORKS offers free robotics training
Southwest Workforce & Community Solutions, a division of Southwest Tennessee Community College, is pleased to partner with Southwest Technologies Department and the University of Memphis to establish the Mid-South Advanced Automation and Robotics...
Students line up for FAFSA drive-in event
As the sun set on the Macon Cove Campus Nov. 12, cars lined the parkway leading to the campus parking lot. Students and many parents waited patiently to take their spot on the parking lot to learn about the FAFSA and receive one-on-one assistance...
ShakeOut Day 2020 goes virtual
Are you prepared to survive an earthquake? What would you do? Earthquakes occur without any warning and may be so violent that you cannot run or crawl. Whether we live in earthquake country or may one day visit an area where earthquakes are possible,...