News From Southwest


The T.A.G.S. Salute to Veterans

Southwest Tennessee Community College and the University of Memphis have joined forces to present T.A.G.S. (Transformation Through Acceptance, Guidance and Spirit), a tribute to military veterans. T.A.G.S. is a production/discussion honoring veterans,...

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Southwest Women's Basketball Team Opens 2013-2014 Season

The Southwest women's basketball team will open the 2013-2014 season on November 8 against conference rival Chattanooga State at the Verties Sails Gymnasium. Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m.

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Notable African-American Author Randall Kenan Comes to Southwest

Randall Kenan, author of A Visitation of Spirits and Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (among The New York Times Notable Books of 1992), will be presenting at Southwest Tennessee Community College's Macon Cove Campus on November 8 at 3 p.m.

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Southwest Holds Informational Grant Funding Workshops for Non-Traditional and Veteran Students

The Financial Aid and Advising departments at Southwest Tennessee Community College have partnered to present Non-Traditional Lottery and Helping Heroes Grant workshops for its non-traditional and veteran student populations. The workshops will be...

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Mid-South Executive Is Honored at Prestigious Global Quality Award Conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE

Executive Director/CEO of the Mid-South Quality/Productivity Center Donald C. Fisher, Ph.D., represented the Malcolm Baldrige National Award for Performance Excellence, recently, at the Global Quality Award Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates...

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Southwest Men's Basketball Team Opens 2013-2014 Season

The Southwest men's basketball team will open the 2013-2014 season on November 1 against Victory University JV at the Verties Sails Gymnasium. Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m.

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Bikes Plus, Inc. Lands Top Entrepreneurship Award from TSBDC

The owners of Bikes Plus, Inc., Steve Malagorski, Glen Hixson, and Karen Malagorki, were awarded the 2013 Memphis Rising Star Award from the Tennessee Small Business Development Center (TSBDC) at Southwest Tennessee Community College. Rory Thomas,...

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Southwest Announces 2013-2014 Men's and Women's Basketball Schedules

Southwest has released its 2013-2014 men's and women's basketball schedules which include 18 conference games and feature out of town tournaments for both teams.

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Southwest Awarded $8.4 Million from the U.S. Department of Labor for Workforce Development

Southwest Tennessee Community College announced today it had been notified it would be the recipient of more than $8.4 million in Department of Labor grants to help train Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) eligible workers, veterans and others in...

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Southwest Associate Professor's New A&P Emporium Model Holds Tremendous Potential for Students

At the beginning of the 2013 fall semester, students in Southwest Tennessee Community College's Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology (A&P) courses walked into a classroom equipped with new Samsung Chromebooks loaded with instructional software...

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