In Western North Carolina, one out of every four children lives in a household that does not know where the next meal will come from.
Before Lisa Pruett earned her high school equivalency diploma at Southwestern Community College in 2016, she already had a happily busy life: marriage, children, running a successful business with her husband and becoming a grandmother- just to name a few.
Fifty-eight Southwestern Community College students were inducted into the National Technical Honor Society on Thursday, Dec. 8, on SCC’s Jackson Campus.
When you are around Casey Deakins, SCC’s institutional development assistant, you can’t help but be inspired and smile as she talks about overcoming the obstacles she’s faced in life.
For about 90 minutes one chilly December morning, Carolyn Porter’s classroom morphed into a courtroom on the third floor of Southwestern Community College’s Burrell Building.
SCC math instructor Vicki Todd, recently flipped her Math 171 class as a part of a project requirement for ACCCESS, a nationwide math faculty group that she is a member of.
At a recent meeting of Girl Scouts Troop 02345, troop leader Rebecca Ammann displayed a laptop and asked if anyone knew how it worked.
