Published August 22, 2025 3:35 pm
Last week, Kelly Devitt, Southwestern Community College art instructor, was announced as a 2025-26 Iowa Artist Fellow by the Iowa Arts Council, and featured in the Iowa Arts & Culture digital newsletter.
Published August 18, 2025 11:37 am
SWCC is hosting Get the Scoop, an academic advising event, from 12 -1 p.m. on Thursday, Aug, 21, 2025, in the Instructional Center, room 180.
Published August 15, 2025 11:24 am
Creston— The Southwestern Community College (SWCC) board of directors met on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, at 5:30 p.m., in the college’s Administration Center, for their regular board meeting.
Published August 13, 2025 3:43 pm
OSCEOLA, IOWA — Representatives from Southwestern Community College (SWCC) were on-hand in early-August, at Osceola Food, LLC, a local manufacturing facility owned by Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL), to sign four Osceola Food employees for SWCC’s applied engineering technology program.
Published August 8, 2025 10:24 am
BOARD OF DIRECTORS REGULAR MEETING
August 12, 2025
Southwestern Community College - Creston, Iowa
Published July 14, 2025 12:09 pm
Federal grant will boost student retention and graduation at
Southwestern Community College
CRESTON, IOWA— The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Southwestern Community College (SWCC) a federal TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) grant, totaling $1,625,255 at the end of the next five years, to improve college retention and graduation rates among low-income, first-generation students, and students with disabilities.
Published July 11, 2025 9:03 am
Creston—The Southwestern Community College (SWCC) board of directors met on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, at 8:30 a.m., in the college’s Administration Center, for their regular board meeting.
During the consideration of consent agenda items, the board approved annual dues for the Higher Learning Commission.
Published July 9, 2025 11:58 am
Jasmine Hansen of Diagonal, Southwestern Community College (SWCC) auto collision repair/refinish student, finished in the Top 10 nationally during the 2025 SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Conference, held in Atlanta in June.
Hansen, a 2024 Diagonal High School graduate, completed the first year of SWCC’s auto collision repair/refinish program in June 2025. She will continue with the program this fall in order to earn her Associate of Applied Science degree from SWCC in May 2026.
Published July 3, 2025 9:03 am
BOARD OF DIRECTORS REGULAR MEETING
July 8, 2025
Southwestern Community College - Creston, Iowa
Published July 1, 2025 3:59 pm
The Iowa Automobile Dealers Association (IADA) Foundation for Education recently awarded Southwestern Community College’s (SWCC’s) automotive programs a $4,741 grant to provide funds for the purchase of hybrid and electric vehicle testing equipment.