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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.” […]

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. […]

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.” […]

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. […]