Scoop November/December 2020 Edition


The Education Trust

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...

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Clifton Taubert

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...

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Mandatory IT Training

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.

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A Southwest student learns how to operate a robotic arm.

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...

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FAFSA

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...

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Shakeout Drill

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,...

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