College News

Published November 17, 2023 2:57 pm

Stop by the SWCC library when you have a chance to see the work of SWCC's fall 2023 digital photography students.

The projects you will see hanging in the library are the digital photography students' first projects. The course meets M-TH from 8:35-9:35 a.m. The project is exploring themes such as space, time, and location. The project is influenced by painter David Hockney’s creation of the “Joiner Collage.” Hockney would take hundreds of images of a single space and collage them together to use as reference images for his painting. They themselves gained quite a bit of attention because of how time is communicated with a medium that generally only frames a single moment in time.

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Published November 17, 2023 10:44 am

The SWCC Automotive Club is sponsoring a raffle for a number of prize packages! Tickets are on sale for $1 per ticket. Automotive Club members will sell the tickets up to the time of the drawing, which will take place on Dec. 7, 2023, in the automotive department.

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Published November 14, 2023 7:12 pm

During tonight’s Southwestern Community College (SWCC) regular board meeting, held at 5:30 p.m., in the Administration Center on the college’s Creston campus, a President’s Chapter 279 Administrator Contract was approved for Lindsay Stoaks, SWCC interim president, making her the sixth president since SWCC’s inception in 1966.

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Published November 10, 2023 1:23 pm

The research of SWCC students will be on display at Poster Day, on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., in the Student Center gymnasium.

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Published November 10, 2023 12:05 pm

The SWCC FCA group is hosting a dodgeball game on Tuesday, Nov. 14, from 7:15-9 p.m., in the Student Center gymnasium.

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Published November 9, 2023 4:42 pm

The Community Colleges for Iowa announced yesterday the 2023 winners of the annual Community Colleges for Iowa Awards. Two Southwestern Community College (SWCC) employees, Denise Kelley of Afton and Deb Roberts of Corning were among the honorees.

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Published November 8, 2023 3:44 pm

The Spartan Cafe recently announced a new food service director, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. of Creston. Dodge replaces Dan Marcus, who recently resigned to pursue other opportunities.

Prior to Southwestern, Dodge was the food service director at St. Malachy School in Creston for 10 years. Her career has also included time as a teacher assistant, as well as a deli/bakery manager for a local supermarket. She is a lifetime resident of this area.

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Published November 1, 2023 3:47 pm

Great fun was had by all at the first-ever Spartan Late Night, held last Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, during SWCC Week/Alcohol Awareness Week at SWCC!

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