Julie Fickas no longer has “interim” in front of her title. St. Louis Community College has hired her to serve as president and chief academic officer for the Forest Park campus. Fickas, 52, has been overseeing campus operations for about a year. She was one of three candidates vying to fill the position. […]
All of Missouri has been dealing with extreme weather lately, from a tornado in Jefferson City to severe thunderstorms and flooding along the Missouri and Meramec rivers. The Forest Park campus has experienced its own water problems. […]
The Forest Park campus has been buzzing for the past week in reaction to news that St. Louis Community College is accusing an employee of stealing $5.4 million over 10 years. […]
Adjunct faculty members at St. Louis Community College have received two 3 percent raises since they voted to form a union in 2015, and now they’re asking for a third. The college has agreed to another raise, but it’s only offering 2 percent, and the union wants 5 percent, saying it needs to make up for all the years that salaries remained flat. “I have to teach at both St. Louis Community College and at (St. Louis University) in order to earn enough to make a living,” said Russell Tallant, an adjunct who has been teaching Spanish at Forest Park since 2013. “I’m working 65 hours a week just to make one salary.” […]
Students, faculty, staff, alumni and other Missouri residents will soon be able to buy customized St. Louis Community College license plates. […]
On April 11, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park held a community poverty simulation workshop as part of Social Justice Week. Participants were invited to “walk in the shoes of someone facing poverty” to emphasize the interconnected issues of poverty. […]
Rape. Poverty. Assault. Trafficking. Prejudice. Violence. Abuse. Injustice. These are just some of the problems that Forest Park students, faculty and staff are learning about in April as part of Social Justice Week and Sexual Assault Awareness Month. […]
Many Forest Park students don’t realize that St. Louis Community College has a private foundation that provides scholarship money to help them pay for tuition, books and other supplies. The St. Louis Community College Foundation distributed more than $700,000 in scholarships in the last fiscal year. They’re all listed on the website, said Executive Director Jo-Ann Digman. “They’ve mostly been established by individuals, corporations, retirees and faculty members to support students in a variety of ways.” […]
Forest Park’s Student Government Association wants the college to end a policy that prevents students from using the fitness center unless they’re taking a fitness class. “(The students) feel like it should be open to everybody, and it’s not,” said SGA Vice President Lester Hope, 19. […]
St. Louis Community College mistakenly emailed personal information on nearly 4,000 students to Bayless School District in south St. Louis County. “On March 1, student information was sent to a school district that STLCC partners with,” said Nez Savala, communications manager for STLCC. “Once it was discovered that the information was sent, we followed up right away and contacted the school district.” Bayless quickly deleted the email, Savala said, and the college was able to confirm that the information wasn’t downloaded or shared. […]
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