Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College

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Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College

Other name	Southern
Former name	Marshall Universitybranch college in Williamson and Logan
Type	Publiccommunity college
Established	July 1, 1971; 53 years ago(July 1, 1971)[1]
Parent institution	West Virginia Community and Technical College System
President	Pamela L. Alderman[2]
Academic staff	83[3]
Undergraduates	1,361
Location	Mount Gay , West Virginia , United States 37°40′32″N82°17′35″W / 37.675433°N 82.293189°W /37.675433; -82.293189
Campus	Rural
Website	www.southernwv.edu

Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College(Southern) is apubliccommunity collegewith its main campus inMount Gay, West Virginia. It is part of theWest Virginia Community and Technical College System.

The school was founded as theLoganandWilliamsonbranches of Marshall College in 1960 and renamed as branches ofMarshall Universitywhen their mother institution achieved university status in 1961. It had community college jurisdiction overLoganandMingocounties. In both cases, the schools were housed in the buildings that had been surplussed by the desegregation of public education. The "branch college", as it was often called, sported basketball teams at each of its two campuses.

In 1970, the two branches were merged and became a stand-alone community college. The college's jurisdiction was expanded to includeBoone CountyandWyoming County. Classes in these counties were held in leased locations until 1971, when a permanent building was constructed in Williamson.

In the 1980s, the college was refocused and permanent buildings were built in each county.

Southern provides bothassociate degreesin 2-year fields (career/technical programs) and the first two years of a four-year degree in the anticipation of a transfer to a bachelor's level institution.

The service area of the school was expanded by 1995 legislation that divided West Virginia into eleven districts. Southern serves all of Boone, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, and Wyoming counties.

Approximately 1,100 students are enrolled. Less than half of them attend part-time.

The school has no residential programs and no athletics. It does have school colors, gold and black.

Campus locations are inFoster,Mount Gay,WilliamsonandSaulsville.

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