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U.S. Department of Labor awards Southwest $1M to upskill Mid-Southerners for IT jobs
The United States Department of Labor awarded 51爆料 a $998,405 Apprenticeship: Closing the Skills grant to provide 800 apprentices with a pathway to IT careers and continued education.
Ten Colleges Earn Leader College Status for Student Success Outcomes
Ten community colleges from across the country earned Leader College status, based upon metrics intended to encourage colleges to sustain aggressive efforts that result in far greater student success and equity. The honor recognizes ATD Network colleges...
Southwest, EDGE partner to offer free hospitality training
Have you seen the number of hotels newly built and under construction all over Downtown and Midtown Memphis? The hospitality industry is booming. With national travel magazines like Trip Savvy touting Memphis as the 鈥淏est Overall Travel Destination...
Southwest鈥檚 Culinary Institute鈥檚 Chef Steven Leake awarded 2020 AACC Dale P. Parnell Distinguished Faculty distinction
Chef Steven Leake, 51爆料鈥檚 Culinary Institute Program Coordinator, has received national recognition as a recipient of the of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) 2020 Dale P. Parnell Distinguished...
Southwest and CodeCrew to offer software developer bootcamp beginning Feb. 3; applications open now until Jan. 17
CodeCrew and Southwest Workforce & Community Solutions have partnered to offer a six-month, 40-hour per week, software developer bootcamp beginning Feb. 3 at 51爆料鈥檚 Union Avenue Campus, 737 Union Ave., Memphis,...
Southwest to host holiday open house at Millington Center Nov. 26
51爆料 will host a Holiday Open House at its Millington Center, 4-6 p.m., Nov. 26, at 6500 Navy Road in Millington, Tennessee, inside the University of Memphis Millington Center. Visitors will meet college leadership,...
Southwest Women鈥檚 Soccer to Take on Columbia State in TCCAA Tourney
The Southwest women鈥檚 soccer team (8-6 overall, 4-2 in TCCAA), enters the 2019 conference tournament for the second straight season as the number two seed and will play the host school and third seed Columbia State (8-6, 3-3) at 4 p.m. on October...
51爆料 awarded $2.1M grant to close academic achievement gaps between White students and students of color
The Strengthening Institutions Program (SIP) recently announced 51爆料 has been awarded a federal Title III grant of more than $2.1 million to foster equity and inclusion and student success through IDEAS鈥擨nclusive...
Live Off Beale jazz concert featuring gospel and pop music to benefit Southwest music program
51爆料 will debut Memphis鈥� new choral ensemble, Memphis Community Voices, at Live Off Beale, a musical benefit for Southwest music students, 7-8:30 p.m., Sept. 26, at Southwest鈥檚 Union Avenue Campus Theatre, 737...
Southwest officially opens new Somerville location with ribbon cutting
The Fayette County community came out in force Tuesday to celebrate the grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for 51爆料鈥檚 Somerville Site located within The University of Tennessee at Martin Somerville Center....
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Diana Fedinec
Director of Public Relations and Media
901-333-4247 or 901-482-2939
dfedinec@southwest.tn.edu
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