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Looking to improve your public-speaking skills? Forest Park faculty and staff are trying to start a Toastmasters Club on campus.  It would be affiliated with Toastmasters International, a 93-year-old organization with 16,400 clubs in 141 countries.  “We provide a supportive and positive learning experience in which members are empowered to develop communication and leadership skills, resulting in greater self-confidence and personal growth,” according to its website. […]

St. Louis Community College must go through an accreditation process with the Higher Learning Commission every 10 years.  Commission representatives will visit STLCC campuses next year. Employees spend months preparing.  “HLC is one of seven regional accreditors across the United States,” said STLCC team co-chair Joyce Johnson, interim vice chancellor for academic affairs. […]

Forest Park Facilities Manager Dennis Kozlowski apparently has lost his job.  People he supervised in housekeeping and maintenance said he was “walked out” earlier this month.  That is the term coined by St. Louis Community College employees to describe the phenomenon of people reporting for work, getting told they are being fired or laid off, being asked to collect their  belongings and being escorted off campus. […]