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Visitors recieve information from one of the welcome centers at the Meramec open house event. The event brought in both community members and potential students.
Meramec’s open house draws community interest Prospective students and community members explore campus and engage with STLCC faculty ELIZABETH CLEARY MANAGING EDITOR
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howing off the new buildings and programs, STLCC Meramec’s campus held its open house on March 28, hosting a variety of activities and tours for all attendees. Humanities East facilitated ceramics and darkroom photography demonstrations as well as hands-on still life drawing sessions. Science South and Science West held patient care demonstrations with the nursing program as well as a show and tell
with some of the non-venomous snakes found in Missouri. Alongside these and other events, pop-up concerts were played throughout the day, and the Coffee Culture truck was stationed on the Student Center quad. We s l e y B u c h e k , c o o r d i n a t o r o f marketing and communication at STLCC Meramec, commented on the event’s turnout. “The FS [Financial Services] building and the Student Center have kind of been our welcome centers, and they’ve been busy. Lots of people have been through here for sure – prospective students, community members, a little bit of everything,” Buchek said.
Students partake in a still life drawing session in Humanities East .
What Buchek hopes people take away from the event depends on their reason for coming by. “If they’re here to learn about taking classes, we hope they can learn about the program they’re interested in. If they’re not even sure what program they’re interested in, maybe they can explore,” Buchek said. “I know we’ve had a lot of people fill out their applications so that they can go here. This [event] is a chance to meet with advising and be with enrollment.” Sheryl Collins, welcome center specialist, ran a table in the Financial Services Education Center during the open house, discussing advising and
STEM professors host informational sessions during the Open House.
enrollment services and helping people find their way around campus. The Financial Services Education Center, alongside being a welcome center, also hosted recruitment and outreach workshops, hands-on math challenges and humanities and social sciences informational sessions. “It’s a whole new campus, really. Hopefully [people] just see what’s going on, and maybe it’s changed since the last time somebody was here,” Collins said. “I just hope they feel the excitement of what’s going on.”
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Visitors at the Open House met with staff in Financial Services.
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