Southwest Tennessee Community College celebrating culture of sweat, equity
In her four-year term as Southwest Community College President, Tracy Hall has helped the school turn some impressive corners, including halting a 7-year decline in enrollment, increasing graduation rates and narrowing the achievement gap between white and students of color. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
When Tracy Hall arrived in 2015, the college was in a seven-year enrollment decline. Numbers are up now and the associate's degrees it awarded in 2018 are up 41%.
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Jane Roberts has reported in Memphis for more than 20 years. As a senior member of The Daily Memphian staff, she was assigned to the medical beat during the COVID-19 pandemic. She also has done in-depth work on other medical issues facing our community, including shortages of specialists in local hospitals. She covered K-12 education here for years and later the region’s transportation sector, including Memphis International Airport and FedEx Corp.
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