Type Public Campus Urban Acceptance rate 100% (2014) Phone +1 901-333-5000 Graduation rate 5.3% (2014) | President Tracy D. Hall Athletics 5 varsity teams Mascot Saluqi Total enrollment 19,989 (2011) | |
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Established Consolidation completed July 1, 2000 Undergraduate tuition and fees Local tuition: 3,843 USD (2015), Domestic tuition: 14,907 USD (2015) Notable alumni Lester Hudson, Dominique Johnson, Yo Gotti, Ashley Shields, Ken Brown Similar University of Memphis, Baptist College of Health Sc, Tennessee Board of Regents, Dyersburg State Communi, Southern College of Optometry Profiles | ||
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Southwest Tennessee Community College is a community college operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. As the product of a merger between two colleges in 2000, the school has two campuses in Memphis and several satellite centers.
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- History
- Campuses
- Athletics
- References
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History
The college resulted from the 2000 merger between two institutions, the former Shelby State Community College and the former State Technical Institute at Memphis ("STIM"). Nathan Essex, the school's founding president, announced in 2014 that he would retire the next summer.
The merger was an attempt to reduce the overhead of maintaining two separate institutional managements and a recognition of the increasing convergence of academic and technical education. It also has made credits earned at the former Technical Institute more readily transferable to other institutions of higher learning, which was an additional goal of the merger. Southwest is one of the largest two-year colleges operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents.
Southwest Tennessee Community College is a comprehensive, multicultural, public, open-access college. Southwest is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Campuses
Southwest has several campuses and centers. These include:
Athletics
The college maintains collegiate sports teams in the following sports:
The mascot is the Saluqi.
Both basketball teams have a winning tradition and regularly advance to the national tournaments. Basketball games are played at the Verties Sails Gymnasium on the Union Avenue Campus.
Saluqi Baseball is played at USA Stadium in Millington, Tennessee.