Services

Bookstore

Get the books and supplies you need for your courses here at Southwestern.

Career Activities & Employment Center

Looking for a job or seeking direction in selecting a career? The Career Activities & Employment Center can help!

Child Care - Kids' Club

Our purpose for being here is to offer affordable and quality childcare for students, faculty and staff while in class, studying, or working at Southwestern Illinois College. The primary goal of Kids’ Club is to provide a positive, nurturing environment for the children and their families.

Counseling

Counseling programs and services are both educational and therapeutic, and are designed to foster academic, personal and career success.

Granite City Student Support Services

If you are the first person in your family to go to college, you receive financial aid or you would benefit from free tutoring in your class subjects, then the Student Support Services program at the Sam Wolf Granite City Campus of Southwestern Illinois College could be the help you need to succeed.

Learning Resources

The Learning Resource Center is an essential part of the instructional program of Southwestern Illinois College. It provides the resources, services and facilities necessary to compliment and support the College curriculum. Students, college personnel and district residents are encouraged to seek assistance in using the resources and services.

Public Safety

The Department of Public Safety provides the following services: vehicle registration (parking permits), access locked vehicles, vehicle jump starts, personal escorts on campus, CPR and First Aid, Lost and Found, engraving items for identification, Crime Prevention programs and Courtesy and Emergency message delivery.

Safe Zone

Safe Zone is a program which identifies faculty and staff who will provide empathy, acceptance, support and resources for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, cross-dressing, and intersex students.

Special Services

The Special Services Center collaborates with faculty, staff, students and the community to provide support services and accommodations for students and prospective students with special needs. Special needs may be related to disabilities, finances, academics, limited English proficiency or displaced homemaker/single parenting issues. If you are a person with one of the identified needs, we can help you build a solid plan for success.

Success Center

Located at each of the Southwestern Campuses and at the East St. Louis Community College Center. The mission of the Success Center is to supplement and enhance classroom instruction by assisting students in developing the skills and strategies to become confident, independent and active learners.

Title III

Funded through the U.S. Department of Education, Title III grants help institutions of higher learning expand their capacity to serve low-income students and to strengthen the institution’s academic quality, fiscal stability and institutional management. At SWIC, faculty and staff will be working on a number of initiatives including initiating, expanding or enhancing learning communities, developmental education, academic advisement, online student orientation and electronic portfolios, to name a few.