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Students, faculty and staff may answer COVID-19 screening questions from their phone before stepping foot on campus. Seward County Community College has teamed up Healthy Roster in an effort to keep students and employees from coming onto campus and exposing large numbers of people to Covid.

SCCC uses Healthy Roster app as extra precaution

Destiny Vasquez
February 3, 2021

Students may now participate in a daily health screening before they even step foot on campus.   A “Healthy Roster” questionnaire through email...

Seward County Community College has now started to conduct randomized Covid test on all its students in addition to dorm residents, student-athletes, and those in speciality programs. All this is being done as an effort to stop the spread of Covid on campus that way students are able to attend classes in person.

Students required to take randomized COVID tests

Maria Coronado
February 1, 2021

Seward County Community College students are now required to randomly test for the COVID-19 virus in hopes to stop the spread and keep campus safe. The...

With COVID cases on the raise SCCC will have to make the decision  to make remote learning a reality for the first two weeks of the spring semester.

Students react to starting the spring semester remotely

William Swanson
November 24, 2020

With some finals taking place on campus this fall, it looks like things are going back to normal in the era of COVID-19. But due to the rise in cases,...

Campus will be closed to visitors starting Nov. 30. Classes will still meet but no one from outside of the college community will be allowed on campus as an effort to combat COVID-19.

Classes continue while campus closes to public Nov. 30

November 23, 2020

In response to steep increases in COVID-19 cases in the community, Seward County Community College will limit public access to campus beginning Nov. 30...

Halloween Costumes: COVID Edition

Halloween Costumes: COVID Edition

Krisi Anderson
October 16, 2020

Here comes Halloween in all of its glory. Things are a little different this year and Halloween is one of the unknowns about the future.  The Liberal...

Pierre Copin, a sophomore from France sits in the Showcase Theater for his midterm for public speaking. For many students sitting six feet apart during classes and tests have become the new “normal”

The day of a college student during COVID

Krisi Anderson, Reporter
October 14, 2020

College has taken a different approach to life due to the recent pandemic. The normal life for college students has somewhat changed. However, not every...

Quarantine: 9 things to pass the time

Quarantine: 9 things to pass the time

Krisi Anderson, Reporter
September 23, 2020

Quarantine got you down? Worry not, Crusader is here to help.  With the rise in COVID-19 cases in southwest Kansas, some students have gone into quarantine....

Students, staff and faculty are asked to report if they have any symptoms of COVID-19. The list of symptoms are posted all over campus and town.

SCCC sends daily COVID updates to students

William Swanson, Reporter
September 22, 2020

Since the semester began, changes around campus have been more than noticeable, but some—especially for students who ignore their emails—have come...

Everyone on campus must wear a mask, even visitors.

COVID-19: How to stay safe as a student

Krisi Anderson, Reporter
September 4, 2020

It has been six months since everything was officially shut down due to Covid-19 (Coronavirus). In that period, normal life has changed. New procedures...

The Human Anatomy Class receives instructions about class from Donald Hays, instructor. Students are spread out all over the theater in an effort to practice social distancing. In past semesters, this class met in a lecture hall in the Hobble Building. Prior to this semester, the only classes in the theater had been music and theater before concerts or plays.

Students, instructors react to COVID changes in the classroom

William Swanson, Reporter
September 3, 2020

As fall classes came into full swing a few weeks ago at Seward County Community College, there was hope that things might return to a somewhat normal state....

SCCC Foundation auction postponed due to pandemic concerns

SCCC Foundation auction postponed due to pandemic concerns

SCCC Public Relations
August 21, 2020

Moonlight Masquerade, the 26th annual party auction hosted by Seward County Community College Foundation, will move to spring from its traditional fall...

The SCCC campus will open in phases, following guidelines set up by the state of Kansas. The summer session will be in a hybrid-format — lectures online with labs being face-to-face.

Gradual reopening begins in mid to late May

May 1, 2020

Summer classes will be in a hybrid format for Seward County Community College. Lectures classes will be online while labs will be face-to-face following...

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