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Welcome to the 51±¬ÁÏ newsroom. Here you can access official Southwest press releases, news articles and publications.


51±¬ÁÏ awarded more than $500,000 to provide tutoring services for students in Grades 1-3 in Shelby County

51±¬ÁÏ was awarded $512,915 for the Connected Literacy Partners Grant by the Tennessee Department of Education to provide a tutoring support program for students in Grades 1-3 throughout the Memphis and Shelby County...

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Fourteen Saluqi Student-Athletes Named NJCAA All-Academic

Fourteen Southwest student-athletes have been honored as NJCAA All-Academic for their work in the classroom. Brady Holloway and Connor Brinkley from the baseball team and Mariah Morgan from the softball team earned first team recognition for achieving...

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51±¬ÁÏ’s Macon Cove Campus and Gill Center shift to virtual learning and work

51±¬ÁÏ’s Macon Cove Campus at 5983 Macon Cove Road and Gill Center at 3833 Mountain Terrace in Memphis are temporarily closed for in-person classes and operations due to power outages from the severe weather that...

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TBR, Southwest selected for First Scholars Network

The Center for First-Generation Student Success, an initiative of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and The Suder Foundation, recently welcomed the thirteen community colleges in the Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR)...

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51±¬ÁÏ hires Carol Ash as Vice President of Academic Affairs and Workforce Development

51±¬ÁÏ welcomes Dr. Carol Ash as the college’s new Vice President of Academic Affairs and Workforce Development. Ash begins her tenure effective June 26, 2023.

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51±¬ÁÏ hires new Associate Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Communications

51±¬ÁÏ has hired Jeremy Shirley as the college’s new Associate Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Communications effective April 17, 2023. In his new role, Shirley will lead the department of marketing and...

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Southwest Baseball Team Continues Record Breaking Season at Region VII Tourney

The Southwest baseball team, winners of a school-record 41 games during the regular season, enters next week’s TCCAA/NJCAA Region VII Tournament as the number three seed and will play sixth seed and host school Volunteer State on Monday, May 8...

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51±¬ÁÏ Celebrates Saluqi Baseball’s Record-Breaking Season!

51±¬ÁÏ will hold a celebration for the Saluqi baseball team’s record-breaking season on Monday, May 15 at 9:30 a.m. in the Fulton Auditorium on the College’s Macon Cove Campus. The Southwest baseball team, under...

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51±¬ÁÏ to hold Commencement at Renasant Convention Center May 13, 2023

51±¬ÁÏ’s President Tracy D. Hall will confer more than 1,200 associate degrees and certificates upon the Class of 2023 at the college’s Commencement, May 13, at the Renasant Convention Center, 255 N. Main Street,...

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Southwest Softball Team To Take On Roane State In Region Tourney Play-In Game

The Southwest softball team enters next week’s TCCAA/NJCAA Region VII Tournament as the number nine seed and will play eighth seed and Roane State in a ‘play-in game’ on Sunday at 10am in Gallatin, Tennessee. The winner advances to the double-elimination...

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 Media Contacts

Diana Fedinec
Director of Public Relations and Media
901-333-4247 or 901-482-2939
dfedinec@southwest.tn.edu

 

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