Mar 17, 2025 | Community, Curry Campus
Southwestern Oregon Community College Curry Campus invites the community to join us on Thursday, April 10, 2025, 1:00 – 2:00 pm (New Time!) for: Monarch Butterflies in Our Backyard.
This is a free program sponsored by the Friends of Curry Campus and will be held in the Community Room on Southwestern’s Curry Campus, 96082 Lone Ranch Parkway (off Highway 101), Brookings.
Dennis Triglia will talk about his love of the Monarch Butterfly, and the petition to have Brookings, Oregon become the first Monarch City in Oregon.
Vicki Mion and Patsy Haggerty were monarch enthusiasts and together with Dennis they started the Brookings Oregon Monarch Advocates (BOMA) group in 2015. They had monthly meetings, two Monarch Festivals in Azalea Park (2017 and 2018), and started collecting monarch butterfly eggs and milkweed for the students at Kalmiopsis Elementary School which were reared indoors away from predators in the garden.
Dennis rallied the support of Brookings City Council and BOMA was approved as a Monarch City in May 2017. In 2018, he applied on behalf of Kalmiopsis Elementary School for Monarch School USA in conjunction with having set up a pollinator garden in the Little Bear Patch Garden at the school.
MONARCH CITY USA was created in 2015 in Maple Valley, Washington as a nonprofit organization with a mission of helping the monarch butterfly population recover by encouraging local cities to plant milkweed and nectar plants within their borders.
Dennis has witnessed the decline of this beautiful species of butterfly. In 1980 Dennis visited Pacific Grove in the Santa Cruz area of California and saw millions of monarchs hanging from the eucalyptus trees like long orange-and-black blankets. When he revisited Pacific Grove forty years later in 2020, there were very few (perhaps hundreds instead of millions!).
Dennis will describe how Brookings and Curry County can protect and increase the population by creating habitat, collecting data for researchers and advocating for the reduction of insecticides and herbicides.
Dennis will share posters of the Monarch life cycle, preserved male and female specimens, cages in which folks could captively rear monarchs from eggs, lists of nectar plants and descriptions and photos of several species of milkweed. Milkweed is the only host plant on which monarchs lay their eggs.
Topics covered will be the Monarch life cycle, role as a pollinator, current conservation issues, how to rear them in captivity from egg-collecting through five caterpillar stages to the pupa (chrysalis) and ecloses (emerging from the chrysalis as an adult). Dennis will share some personal stories that he and other monarch enthusiasts have experienced.
Explore, grow, and create with the Friends of Curry Campus on the second Thursday of every month during the school year. Stay tuned for upcoming talks in our speaker series. For more information contact the Curry Campus at 541-813-1667.
Mar 5, 2025 | Curry Campus, News, Student Success
Coos Bay, OR – Southwestern Oregon Community College announces the names of students who excelled fall term for the 2024-2025 academic school year. These students are being recognized with placement on the College’s Dean’s List (DL), Honor Roll (HR) and Academic Excellence (AE) list.
• Academic Excellence – students must receive a GPA of 4.0 in at least 12 credits
• Honor Roll – students must receive a GPA between 3.5 and 3.99 in at least 12 credits
• Dean’s List – students must receive a GPA between 3.0 and 3.49 in at least 12 credits
Mar 5, 2025 | Curry Campus
Brookings, OR – Southwestern Oregon Community College has a Traffic Control Flagger class scheduled for Tuesday, March 18, 2025 in Brookings. This course meets Oregon Department of Transportation requirements for traffic control flaggers. Students who complete this course will receive certification cards.
The class meets from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Curry Campus of Southwestern Oregon Community College at 96082 Lone Ranch Parkway in Brookings. The training covers certification and re-certification. The $149 fee includes class materials. Pre-registration and payment are required prior to class. Participants must be 18 years of age or older to receive certification. Please bring snacks to eat during breaks if needed, as there is no lunch break provided during this training.
For more information on this class and to register contact the Student Success Center at the Curry Campus at 541-813-1667.
Feb 25, 2025 | Curry Campus
Brookings, OR – Southwestern Oregon Community College Curry Campus invites the community to join us on Thursday, March 13, 2025, 12:00 to 1:00 pm for: Imaginative Creative Writing.
This is a free program sponsored by the Friends of Curry Campus and will be held in the Community Room on Southwestern’s Curry Campus, 96082 Lone Ranch Parkway (off Highway 101), Brookings. Bring a friend and a brown bag lunch.
Gold Beach Residents: Coral will also be sharing her presentation at the GOLD BEACH PUBLIC LIBRARY on SUNDAY, APRIL 13, 2025 at 2:00 pm.
Coral Anderson will teach Creative Writing and Story Worlds at the Curry Campus this spring. Coral will engage in a short program with the Friends of Curry Campus so that we can meet her and sample a bit of her teaching. The first part of the full-term class includes reading and analysis of published works such as scenes, dialogue, themes, and structure. The second part of the class involves writing exercises both at home and in class.
Coral describes her teaching experiences saying, “I have profoundly enjoyed teaching writing in both college and high school contexts. Homeschooling my own high school aged children has granted me a broader scope of appreciation for curriculum that can foster cross-curricular excellence while preparing them for collegiate studies and career paths beyond college. I believe that students of all ages can unlock the door to eloquent self-expression in whatever subsequent field of inquiry they undertake. Literature and writing are doorways for students into greater expression of their own thoughts and interests. Ideally, those doorways will open ever-widening and expanding conversations within the larger community for robust engagement within all the arenas – personal or civic – that matter most.”
Over the course of two decades, Coral has taught Freshman Composition & Rhetoric in a private college; served as a K-12 substitute teacher; engaged 9-12th graders in critical thinking about literature in a private Catholic high school; team-led a Waldorf Kindergarten built entirely outdoors; served as an assistant director of one metropolitan preschool and then – a decade later – spent three years tromping through nature with children in a yoga-based outdoor preschool on California’s Central Coast. In 2005, she pursued a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Antioch University in Los Angeles. “Stories… they allow us to live outside of ourselves for a little while and yet, somehow, find more of ourselves in the process… As an only child, books were my friends whom I loved and interacted with all through my growing up years. In writing, you can take a journey to explore the things that intrigue you… without money, and with the luxury of time and imagination,” shared Coral.
Stay tuned for upcoming talks in the Friends of Curry Speaker Series. Spring term lectures will feature animals that conservationists are trying to save. Watch for more information about these lectures in the College News publication coming to you soon in your mailbox. For more information contact the Curry Campus at 541-813-1667.
Feb 25, 2025 | Curry Campus, News
Coos Bay, OR – Southwestern Oregon Community College is offering free GED® and Adult Basic Education classes spring term 2025. These classes prepare individuals to take the GED® exam and update skills to enroll in college or career training programs. Students enrolled in these classes can build a pipeline to enter college, training programs, and jobs in high-demand career areas.
We will have three options for GED® and Adult Basic Education classes next term:
- MorningGED®Class – Monday through Thursday from 9am-11am
- AfternoonGED®Class – Monday through Thursday from 12pm-2pm
- EveningGED®Class – Tuesday through Thursday from 5pm-8pm
All classes will be live and in person on the Coos Campus. The afternoon class will also be live and in person on the Curry Campus in Brookings.
For students who cannot make it to either campus, classes are offered via Zoom during all three sessions. Spring term starts March 31st and ends June 12th.
To register for orientation and classes, go to https://swoccapce.org/ and click GET STARTED. For questions, please email Adult & Pre-College Education at apce@socc.edu or call 541-888-1593.
Feb 24, 2025 | Curry Campus, Curry News, News, OCCI News
Spring Term 2024-25 is quickly approaching! Classes start Monday, March 31, 2025. Below are instructions about how to register. If you are experiencing any issues registering after reading the below, please contact us:
- Coos Campus Students: Call 541-888-7352 or Email
- Curry Campus Students: Call 541-813-1677 or Email
REGISTRATION FOR DEGREE OR CERTIFICATE SEEKING STUDENTS:
If you are already a current/admitted student, below are instructions on registering.
Not a current or admitted student? You’ll need to first complete an Application for Admission to Southwestern.** Not sure whether or not you’re an admitted student? Contact us using the information above! (**Note: If you’re a community member simply looking to take a credit class for fun or personal enrichment, you’ll complete the Community Education and Personal Enrichment Form in lieu of the Application for Admission).
Spring Term 2024-25 credit classes begin Monday, March 31, 2025. Registration for credit classes is available February 24, 2025 – April 2, 2025 (from April 3-9, 2025, you will first need instructor consent to register for a class). To register:
- First clear with your advisor! If you’re unsure who your advisor is, you may call 541-888-7405 or schedule an advising meeting. Curry Campus students call 541-813-1667.
- Login to myLakerLink using your student ID and password.
- Search for courses to add under the “2024-2025 Spring Term” drop down.
REGISTRATION FOR COMMUNITY CLASSES (COMMUNITY EDUCATION):
Spring Term 2024-25 community education class registration opens March 5, 2025 at 8:00 a.m. To register, follow the instructions on the top of the community class page.
As a reminder, all academic term dates and other important milestones may be found on the Academic Calendar. Click on the “2024-25 Academic Calendar” button for a .pdf version, or click on the “categories” button and filter for “instructional calendar” to view the online version.
