Southwest sold its Frayser campus. Here’s what a new location could offer.
About 350 students were taking courses at the Frayser campus in 2013, but that enrollment had fallen to 120 five years later. (Submitted)
The college is considering a future location in Frayser or Raleigh with programming tailored to the neighborhoods’ needs and interests.
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Southwest Tennessee Community College Frayser Education RaleighLaura Testino
Laura Testino is an enterprise reporter on The Daily Memphian’s metro team who writes most often about how education policies shape the lives of children and families. She regularly contributes to coverage of breaking news events and actions of the Tennessee General Assembly. Testino’s journalism career in Memphis began six years ago at The Commercial Appeal, where she began chronicling learning disruptions associated with the pandemic, and continued with Chalkbeat, where she dug into education administration in Memphis. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, The Times-Picayune, The Tuscaloosa News and USA Today.
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