St. Louis Community College

St. Louis college students turn to campus food pantries amid end of SNAP benefits and rising costs.

A St. Louis Community College report found the region gained almost 80,000 workers over the past 10 years.

Southwestern Illinois College and St. Louis Community College will open new facilities to train people in areas such as computer-aided design. Local business leaders expect advanced manufacturing to grow into one of the region’s critical industries.

The St. Louis County Department of Justice Services and St. Louis Community College are offering inmates college classes to help them earn an associate degree. Jail officials say the degree program can help get some inmates back on their feet once they are released.

Agriculture companies are looking for people who are interested in science and the majority of jobs aren’t in rural areas of the country. Hiring managers are increasingly looking for people who don’t have traditional ag backgrounds.

St. Louis Community College released its annual State of the Workforce report Wednesday, which surveyed local employers on their top concerns. This year, COVID-19 fell down the list, while hiring and retaining employees ranked first.

Hundreds of volunteers are vital to pulling off a public health effort almost unprecedented in scale: vaccinating the state’s 6 million residents against a virus that has killed more than 9,000 Missourians and brought life to a momentary halt.

State and local health officials, the National Guard and volunteers gave nearly 3,500 residents the one-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine at St. Louis Community College-Forest Park on Thursday. The vaccine distribution was one of several state-run events being held in the region through the weekend.

Public colleges and universities were already making do with fewer students and less state aid before the pandemic. Both of those dropped faster than expected in 2020.

After counting out the last in a series of chest compressions, Harry Painter Jr. sets up a nebulizer and begins piping oxygen into his patient’s…