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Experience spring training with the Cardinals, discover the heart of Texas or explore captivating Iceland with PSOP in 2021
Dreaming of your next big adventure? Let Southwestern Illinois College Programs and Services for Older Persons help make it a reality! PSOP is hosting three excursions in 2021 that will create memories to last a lifetime. Spring Training with the Cardinals in Jupiter, Florida – March. 16-19, 2021Enjoy the beginning of spring with the “boys …
Experience breathtaking Alaska, coastal Maine or an island cruise with PSOP
Dreaming of your next big adventure? Let Southwestern Illinois College Programs and Services for Older Persons help make it a reality! PSOP is hosting three excursions in 2021 and 2022 that will create memories to last a lifetime. Alaska by Land & Sea – Aug. 9-20, 2021Explore the Alaskan “final frontier.” The seven-night cruise and …
SWIC Receives $1.2 Million Workforce Equity Grant for 2021
A $1.2 million Workforce Equity Initiative Grant from the Illinois Community College Board will enable Southwestern Illinois College to continue offering its one-year career training programs in East St. Louis. “We’re able to continue the incredible work we’ve been doing at the East St. Louis Higher Education Campus,” said SWIC Executive Director of Enrollment Development …
SWIC Fire Science Program students to learn on donated fire truck
Retired Fairview Heights firefighter Daniel Lougeay of Marissa, has made an in-kind donation of a fire truck to the Southwestern Illinois College Fire Science Program. The 1963 retired fire engine will be used by fire science students to learn how to operate a fire hose pump, as well as other things. “Being able to …
SWIC’s Mark Bosworth Wins NTMA Teaching Award
NTMA St. Louis Chapter President Tony Maus called Southwestern Illinois College Industrial Technology Coordinator Mark Bosworth an “Education Super Star” as he presented Bosworth with the William E. Hardman Award for Excellence in Training on Nov. 10 at the Sam Wolf Granite City Campus. Bosworth, who has been with SWIC since 2008, has grown the …
SWIC Red Bud Campus offers out-of-school youth FREE services
SouthwesternIllinois College is proud to offer the Youth Employment and Support Services Program, which is funded through the national Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, Out of School Youth program. YESS provides St. Clair and Randolph County out-of-school youth, ages 16 to 24, with FREE comprehensive support and educational services to complete their High School Equivalency …