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Southwest Tennessee Community College

School Overview:

School Notes:

• Southwest Tennessee Community College has a number of Campuses, Centers, and Sites to make getting your degree more convenient. The Macon Cove Campus at 5983 Macon Cove, Memphis, TN, 38134, is right off the I-40 and I-240 expressways in the eastern part of the city. Southwest's intensive technology programs are based at Macon Cove. Through multiple partnerships, alliances, licensing and certification programs, service grants, and extensive computer training facilities, Southwest has forged strong, mutually supportive ties to business and industry in the metropolitan area. Macon's 100-acre campus offers a suburban ambiance, enhanced by a quiet lake that provides year-round habitat to flocks of ducks and other waterfowl.
• The College Offers Associate of Applied Science, Associate of Arts, and Associate of Science degrees, academic and technical certificate programs, and courses that prepare students for transfer, employment, and career advancement in areas that include allied health sciences, nursing, business, computer technologies, criminal justice, education, and engineering and related technologies, while continually developing new programs in emerging fields.
• Southwest is accredited to award associate degrees by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

In the News:

• Care center director given award for life's work (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
  posted on March 8, 2010 at 12:00:00 pm
  Mary Palmer, director of Child Care Centers for Southwest Tennessee Community College, received the Stand for Children and United Way of Tennessee's Children's Champion Early Learning Pioneer Award in Nashville on Feb. 16. Palmer is the first recipient of the award, which now will be presented annually. It was created as a way of honoring her life's work with children, according to the Stand for ...
• Memphis picked again for SBA's "Emerging 200" program (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
  posted on March 5, 2010 at 05:59:00 pm
  For the third consecutive year, Memphis has been selected to participate in the "Emerging 200" program sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration .The initiative, launched in 2008, provides management training, professional contacts and financial guidance for small firms. The SBA says about two-thirds of net new jobs between 1993 and the third quarter of 2008 were created by businesses ...
• Six Permits Issued For Memphis Airport (The Memphis Daily News)
  posted on March 3, 2010 at 06:02:34 am
  Six building permits have been granted to the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority to begin work on the airport’s $121 million ground transportatio....
• County Pension Fund Sees Slight Drop (The Memphis Daily News)
  posted on March 3, 2010 at 06:02:23 am
  The value of Shelby County’s pension fund slipped a little in January, with the month’s 1.8 percent decrease breaking a six-month streak of gains. How....
• Southwest Receives $250K Construction Grant (The Memphis Daily News)
  posted on March 3, 2010 at 06:02:13 am
  Southwest Tennessee Community College has received a $250,000 donation from Follett Higher Education Group to go toward the construction of a new buil....

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