Southwest Tennessee Community College

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Southwest Tennessee Community College

Type	Publiccommunity college
Established	Consolidation completed July 1, 2000
Parent institution	Tennessee Board of Regents
President	Tracy D. Hall
Academic staff	189 full-time and 221 part-time (spring 2022)[1]
Students	6,391 (spring 2022)[2]
Location	Memphis , Tennessee , U.S.
Campus	Urban
Nickname	Saluqis
Website	www.southwest.tn.edu

Southwest Tennessee Community Collegeis apubliccommunity collegeinMemphis, Tennessee. As the product of a merger between two colleges in 2000, the school has two campuses in Memphis and several satellite centers. It is operated by theTennessee Board of Regents.

The college resulted from the 2000mergerbetween two institutions, the formerShelby State Community Collegeand the formerState Technical Institute at Memphis("STIM"). Nathan Essex, the school's founding president, announced in 2014 that he would retire the next summer.^[3]

The merger was an attempt to reduce the overhead of maintaining two separate institutional managements and a recognition of the increasing convergence of academic and technicaleducation. It also has made credits earned at the former Technical Institute more readily transferable to other institutions of higher learning, which was an additional goal of the merger. Southwest is one of the largest two-year colleges operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents.

Southwest Tennessee Community College is a comprehensive, multicultural, public, open-access college. Southwest is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

• Jess H. Parrish (president, Shelby State Community College, 1970–1981)
• Charles M. Temple (president, State Technical institute at Memphis, 1983–1995)
• M. Douglas Call (president, State Technical institute at Memphis–2000)
• Floyd "Bud" Amann (president Shelby State Community College 1996–2000)
• Floyd "Bud" Amann (president Southwest Tennessee Community College 2000–2001)
• Nathan Essex (president 2001–2015)
• Tracy D. Hall (president 2015–present)

Southwest has several campuses and centers. These include:

• Macon Cove Campus- located inNortheast Memphis(35°09′42″N89°51′58″W / 35.1616°N 89.8661°W /35.1616; -89.8661 (Southwest Tennessee Community College, Macon Cove Campus))
• Union Avenue Campus- located inDowntown Memphis(35°08′13″N90°02′13″W / 35.1370°N 90.0369°W /35.1370; -90.0369 (Southwest Tennessee Community College, Union Avenue Campus))
  • Medical District High Schoolis located in Building E.^[4]
• Gill Center- located inFrayser
• Maxine A. SmithCenter- located in Southeast Memphis
• Millington Center- located inMillington, Tennessee
• Whitehaven Center- located inWhitehaven

The college maintains collegiate sports teams in the following sports:

• Men's basketball
• Women's basketball
• Baseball
• Softball
• Women's soccer
• Cheerleading

The mascot is theSaluqi.

Both basketball teams have a winning tradition and regularly advance to the national tournaments. Basketball games are played at the Verties Sails Gymnasium on the Union Avenue Campus.

The Saluqi's baseball program plays atUSA StadiuminMillington, Tennessee.

• Official website