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Food drive to help needy students

November 13, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused many Forest Park students to lose their jobs or see their work hours cut. That’s one of the reasons a food drive is being planned this month by employees in Academic Success and Tutoring, Campus Life and the Student Assistance Program. […]

Forest Park emplyees, from left, Lori Orlando, Keith Hulsey and Tiffany Bush depart the G Tower parking lot on Oct. 16 for a tour of the “other” Forest Park. (Photo by Fred Ortlip)

New Wellness group gets off to a slow roll

October 30, 2020

As COVID-19 cases surge again and pandemic fatigue grips a weary country, a group of Forest Park employees have formed a Wellness Committee to help address the needs of faculty, students and staff in this challenging time. […]

Tutor Dossah A. Edorh works with general transfer student Dina Beaubiant in the Academic Success and Tutoring Center at Forest Park.

Tutoring available, even during COVID-19

October 22, 2020

Is remote learning stressing you out? Are your classes getting more and more intense by the week? Do you need a tutor who can help either in-person or virtually? […]

This computer rendering shows Forest Park’s new quad, including a “Light Walls” sculpture and trees lining a concrete walkway and the “Weathered Venus” sculpture at the southwest corner of the Center for Nursing and Health Sciences.(Gateway Foundation)

Giant light walls will dominate new quad

October 2, 2020

Now that A and B towers are gone, Forest Park students, faculty and staff are wondering what the college is going to do with all that space. […]

Oct. 7 deadline for voter registration

October 2, 2020

Stacia Thompson will vote for the first time ever in the Nov. 3 general election. The 19-year-old psychology major plans to cast her ballot for former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat running against President Donald Trump. […]

Philip Teare, financial aid campus manager at STLCC Forest Park, assists Brittni Hubbard, 20, studying radiology technology, with financial aid documents. (Photo by Fred Ortlip)

We’re back (sort of)

September 18, 2020

Forest Park is offering in-person classes this fall, but only a few hundred students are allowed on campus at a time due to COVID-19. Many are working from home. […]

Chancellor Jeff Pittman took off his St. Louis Community College face covering to address the STLCC community during a "virtual town hall meeting" on Zoom last week.

Chancellor gives wide-ranging update on what’s happening this fall

August 18, 2020

As Forest Park students prepare for out-of-the-ordinary ways to learn this fall, St. Louis Community College Chancellor Jeff Pittman says that up to 36% of the college’s 2,683 classes will have at least some face-to-face instruction. […]

Above, A and B towers have been reduced to a pile of rubble, giving a full view of the new Center for Nursing and Health Sciences from College Drive. Below, the towers are shown on June 11, after windows had been removed to prepare for demolition.

A and B towers are gone, raising profile of new nursing center

August 14, 2020

Students and employees returning to Forest Park this fall will hardly recognize campus if they enter from the east. Workers are largely finished demolishing a large, four-story brick section of the main building’s east wing, better known as A and B towers. […]

Campus will be quiet and cautious this fall

August 11, 2020

Fall semester classes are scheduled to start in a couple of weeks at Forest Park, and plans are still evolving, but it’s clear that campus life will be very different due to the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

Forest Park prepares to welcome back students

July 6, 2020

Forest Park students, many of whom have been taking classes online since mid-March because of the coronavirus pandemic, can expect to be back on campus when the fall semester begins Aug. 24. […]