Current Events
In 2003 SCC partnered with Drake Enterprises and the Eastern Band of Cherokee to form BalsamWest FiberNET, LLC. This partnership was established in order provide direct network access to Western North Carolina, North Georgia, and Eastern Tennessee, an area which had been experiencing extremely high network access costs, and limited access. Currently the OC192 fiber loop is in final stages of production.
In November 2006, SCC entered into a unique partnership with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians that created the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts in Cherokee, North Carolina.
2007 saw the opening of the 23,000-square-foot (2,100 m2) Macon Center, located in Franklin, North Carolina.
Southwestern Community College ranks fourth in the nation in a new listing of America’s best community colleges. That’s according to a July 2007 report in the Washington Monthly.
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Famous quotes containing the words current and/or events:
“Beneath the azure current floweth;
Above, the golden sunlight glows.
Rebellious, the storm it wooeth,
As if the storms could give repose.”
—Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841)
“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)