COOS BAY, Ore. – Southwestern Oregon Community College students will have the opportunity to participate in a study abroad program within the criminal justice or history programs during spring term of 2018-2019. This is the first study abroad program for Southwestern’s criminal justice students....

Coos Bay, OR – The Music Department of Southwestern Oregon Community College is proud to present a series of concerts during the week of June 3 through 10, 2018. Retiring Director, Ida Jo Gates, is proud to expand upon the usual end-of-term offerings and hopes that everyone can attend all of the...

COOS BAY, Ore. – Southwestern Oregon Community College proudly welcomes Cass Averill, Board President, Founder and Administrator of Trans*Ponder , to speak about Diversity and the Workplace. His presentation will take place on May 31, 2018 from 6:00 – 7:30 pm on the Coos campus of Southwestern,...

Fatima Ruiz Guillen Robert J. and Leona DeArmond Scholarship I will be the first generation of my family to both graduate high school and move to the next chapter in my life in college. Being a kid of two immigrant grandparents has always made it so I have to let go of a lot of my dreams, but with...

Dick & Judy Wagner with Ida Jo Gates They met in front of a piano, many years before Music Instructor Ida Jo Gates came to the college. She taught. Dick Wagner plied the piano keys. “I’d always collected sheet music, and I really wanted to play that music. Ida Jo was willing to help me learn,”...

Southwestern’s Men’s and Women’s Swim Teams won national attention in 2017 for breaking records and claiming medals, also for great sportsmanship and class. The men placed second as the 2017 Runner-up National Champions at the National Junior College Athletic Association National Championships in...