St. Louis Community College–Wildwood

St. Louis Community College-Wildwood
Motto	"Expanding Minds. Changing Lives."
Type	Public Community
Established	2007
Parent institution	STLCC System
Provost	Steven Collins Ph.D.
Students	2,000
Location	Wildwood, Missouri, United States; 38°34′29″N 90°38′54″W / 38.5746°N 90.6484°W
Campus	suburban
Colors	Navy & Silver
Website	www.stlcc.edu/ww/

St. Louis Community College–Wildwood (also known as STLCC-Wildwood, or Wildwood for short) is the newest campus in the STLCC system. The campus is located in Wildwood, Missouri, a western suburb of St. Louis, Missouri in an area known as west St. Louis County^{[broken anchor]}.

History

The college opened in August 2007. The Wildwood campus was created because of the rapidly growing population of west St. Louis County^{[broken anchor]} and to relieve some of the pressures from STLCC-Meramec's growing and overcapacity 12,000-13,000 student population.^[2]

Campus

The Wildwood campus is located off Route 109 and Route 100 in West St. Louis County. Wildwood is state-of-the-art; it the first Green campus in Missouri built with environmentally friendly materials.^[3] The architecture of the building is also designed to enhance the health of the students and faculty using the facilities. STLCC-WW is also tobacco-free, not only in the buildings but on all campus property. The main campus 75,000-square-foot (7,000 m²) building houses high-tech classrooms and labs, a library and bookstore, student services, lounges, a multipurpose room and rooms equipped with sophisticated presentation and Web-based technologies.^[4]

Notable Programs

Wildwood currently offers associate degrees in three areas of study: General Transfer Studies, Business Administration, and Teaching.

UM-St. Louis at Wildwood

Beginning in the Spring 2008 semester UM-St Louis began offering classes at Wildwood for students to begin taking classes at Wildwood and then make an easy transfer after the second year into the main UMSL campus.^[5]^[6]