The St. Louis Community College softball team is on a roll heading into the postseason. A doubleheader sweep on April 22-23 boosted the Archers’ overall record to 34-3 as they head into Region 16 play on May 3-4 at Meramec. The team moved up from No. 13 to No. 9 this week in the NJCAA Division II rankings. […]
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. […]
Forest Park has hundreds of faculty and staff members and all of them need keycards to get into classrooms and offices. Managing the system isn’t an easy job. Each group of employees has a different requirement on how often keycards have to be reactivated. […]
Students who call the number for Forest Park police may be surprised to learn that its calls are being answered by a dispatcher on the Florissant Valley campus. […]
“Run. Hide. Fight.” Those words top the Active Shooter Preparedness posters that line the halls of the Forest Park campus, Meramec campus and Harrison Education Center, and they will soon be displayed on the Florissant Valley campus. […]
It wasn’t your typical power outage. Forest Park’s electrical substation caught fire on Monday, Feb. 11, closing campus for a week. “I heard from staff and students that there was a large boom that echoed across campus,” said Interim President Julie Fickas. “I’m grateful everyone’s safe and that Ameren UE, Guarantee, students and faculty showed flexibility dealing with the whole situation.” […]
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