Blunt visits campus to promote year-round Pell Grants
U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt visited the Forest Park campus on May 3 to talk about Pell Grants, which will be available to summer students for the first time in seven years. […]
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New college website adapts to mobile devices
St. Louis Community College has launched a new website. Perhaps most importantly, it adapts to cellphones and other mobile devices. The old one displayed only the desktop version. […]
College approves first adjunct contract
St. Louis Community College Board of Trustees voted to approve the first-ever adjunct union contract on April 26. A 3 percent pay raise will be retroactive to Jan. 1, 2018. The contract will expire on June 30, 2020. Beyond pay, adjuncts will have more job security and access to a 403(b) tax-sheltered annuity. They also will see changes in the course-assignment process and handling of personnel files and student complaints. “Before, we had nothing,” said adjunct art professor Brett Williams. “Now we have a contract.” Williams is a member of the bargaining committee of the Service Employees International Union, which represents adjuncts. […]
Provost leaves abruptly
Larry Johnson is gone. Forest Park’s provost moved out of his office and left campus for good Friday, despite stating earlier this month that he would be staying until his contract ended June 30. “He did some good work,” said Franklyn Taylor, dean of student development and enrollment, on Wednesday. “I had no idea (he was leaving Friday), and I didn’t ask any questions.” […]
Forest Park loses a landmark
A piece of Forest Park history has disappeared from the spot it stood for nearly 40 years, leaving only a patch of gravel behind. The landmark was a security booth in the median of the circle drive in front of C Tower. […]
Ex-adjunct still banned in new city post
Former math adjunct Steve Taylor is still banned from St. Louis Community College’s four campuses because of a run-in with STLCC officials at a board meeting last fall. That’s causing a problem for Wildwood City Council, which holds some of its meetings on STLCC’s Wildwood campus. Taylor was elected as alderman for the city’s 4th Ward earlier this month. “They’re still not allowing me on campus, even though I am an elected official,” he said. Wildwood City Administrator Ryan Thomas called the ban “unfortunate.” Officials are looking for alternative sites. […]
Cops double as Good Samaritans
Cornelius Burch is known for always carrying his basketball around Forest Park. “I never leave the house without it,” said the 20-year-old accounting major. So when campus police officers James Kenner and Dan Taylor saw Burch empty-handed recently, they asked him what happened. Turns out, his basketball had been stolen at a YMCA. […]
Provost Johnson to leave Forest Park
Provost Larry Johnson is leaving Forest Park to become president of Phoenix College in Arizona. His last day is June 30. Phoenix is considered the flagship of the Maricopa County Community College district, which has 10 campuses. Phoenix enrolls about 20,000 students. […]
Forest Park students weigh in on gun control
Many Forest Park students, faculty and staff want stricter gun control in light of the recent Florida school shooting, according a random survey conducted by The Scene on campus. Education major Lynette Farmer, 35, doesn’t think people with mental illness should be allowed to own firearms.“I’m not saying guns don’t protect people,” she said. “But you’re getting guns in the hands of the wrong people who don’t have the mind frame to know what to do with it. I’m just sick of kids getting killed.” […]
College breaks ground on new health building
The new St. Louis Community College Center for Nursing and Health Sciences got off to a wet start. Officials had to move the groundbreaking ceremony indoors because of rain on March 23. […]