South Suburban College Awarded Grant to Support Early Childhood Education

South Suburban College Today

More than 9,000 students, on average, are enrolled at South Suburban College during a typical year. The College offers a wide selection of career education and college transfer credit programs. Additionally, South Suburban College’s Business & Career Institute offers non-credit customized training, short-term instruction for business, and dozens of special interest classes.

The College has a state-of-the-art Performing Arts Center. A variety of cultural events are sponsored by the College, including plays, comedy acts, special lectures, and concerts, adding to the richness of the performing arts in the south suburbs.

In the future, SSC will continue to provide educational opportunities to the community in traditional areas, as well as in new and emerging fields. Through our distance learning endeavors we hope to be able to reach tomorrow’s student in even more exciting ways.

Our Mission:

The mission of South Suburban College is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong learning.

SSC is dedicated to:

High quality education, training, and services for all individuals who have the ability to benefit from our programs.
Programs that are accessible and affordable provided to a diverse community of learners.
Training delivered in collaboration with local businesses.
A community of staff, faculty, and students that create an environment and resources for learning.
Up-to-date facilities and technology that help prepare students for transfer to baccalaureate programs or the job market.

Our Vision:

South Suburban College is a welcoming, attractive, efficient, safe, transparent, and financially secure institution that fosters creative communication and synergy within the campus community and between that community and its partners.

Through innovative teaching, integration of technology, modeling sustainable practices that value the environment, cultivation of external partnerships and a culture of assessment, SSC will play a pivotal role in transforming the lives of its diverse student population.

SSC 360 - Julia Dixon

SSC 360 - Julia Dixon

Julia Dixon's interest in engineering began as a child with taking apart electronic devices. Today, she is the President of the National Society of Black Engineers at SSC, and was recently accepted into the NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars Program.
SSC 360 - Badar Sabeen, Electrocardiography Alumnus

SSC 360 - Badar Sabeen, Electrocardiography Alumnus

Badar Sabeen is an alumnus who found success with SSC's Electrocardiography Program, having not only secured employment with Advocate Trinity Hospital but also as a teacher here at the school.
SSC 360 - Keyanna White, Building & Construction

SSC 360 - Keyanna White, Building & Construction

Keyanna White talks about her experience with the Building Construction Technology Program.

South Suburban College Awarded Grant to Support Early Childhood Education

By: South Suburban College Last Updated: July 19, 2022

South Suburban College Awarded Grant to Support Early Childhood Education South Suburban College (SSC) was awarded a $847,867.68 grant by the Illinois Community College Board (ICCB). SSC is working with colleges across the State of Illinois under the Early Childhood Access Consortium for Equity Act to provide support for...

South Suburban College Student-Athletes Earn All-Academic Achievement by the National Junior College Athletic Association

By: South Suburban College Last Updated: July 15, 2022

South Suburban College Student-Athletes Earn All-Academic Achievement by the National Junior College Athletic Association The South Suburban College (SSC) Athletics Department is proud to announce student-athletes awarded for their dedication in the classroom during the 2021-22 school year. The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) has named ten...

South Suburban College Selected by Amazon as an Education Partner for Career Choice Program

By: South Suburban College Last Updated: June 28, 2022

South Suburban College Selected by Amazon as an Education Partner for Career Choice Program South Suburban College (SSC) has been selected as an education partner for Amazon’s Career Choice program, providing Amazon’s hourly employees access to various educational opportunities on the Main Campus in South Holland, at the Oak Forest...

South Suburban College Adult Volunteer Literacy Tutoring Program Seeks Tutors and Learners

By: South Suburban College Last Updated: June 21, 2022

South Suburban College Adult Volunteer Literacy Tutoring Program Seeks Tutors and Learners South Suburban College (SSC) is seeking tutors and learners to participate in the Adult Volunteer Literacy Tutoring Program. The program is structured to train volunteers to become one-on-one tutors for adults in need of basic literacy skills....

Theatre Company at South Suburban College to hold open auditions for baseball comedy

By: South Suburban College Last Updated: June 15, 2022

Theatre Company at South Suburban College to hold open auditions for baseball comedy The PAC Rats Theatre Company of South Suburban College (SSC) will hold open auditions for the baseball comedy Bleacher Bums. Auditions will take place Wednesday, July 13 and Thursday, July 14, 2022, beginning at 7 p.m. Readings will be held...

Highway Construction Careers Training Program Offered Soon at South Suburban College

By: South Suburban College Last Updated: June 8, 2022

The Highway Construction Careers Training Program (HCCTP) at South Suburban College (SSC) is gearing up for their next short-term program. Registration for this program is currently open for the Summer and Fall Semesters. The HCCTP has been offered...

South Holland Resident Fatima Serrato Sworn in as Student Trustee at South Suburban College

By: South Suburban College Last Updated: May 31, 2022

South Holland Resident Fatima Serrato Sworn in as Student Trustee at South Suburban College South Suburban College (SSC) student Fatima Serrato was sworn in as Student Trustee at the college’s May meeting of the Board of Trustees. She was welcomed to her new role by Chairman Terry R. Wells. Feeling a bit too comfortable with her life...

By: Dan Petreikis Last Updated: May 25, 2022

South Suburban College Celebrates Graduates with 94th Commencement Ceremony South Suburban College (SSC) of South Holland, IL celebrated its first in-person Commencement Ceremony on Sunday, May 22, 2022 since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly every chair in the SSC Physical Fitness and Athletic Center was filled...

South Suburban College Celebrates Graduates with 94th Commencement Ceremony

By: South Suburban College Last Updated: May 25, 2022

South Suburban College Celebrates First Class of Barber College Graduates

By: South Suburban College Last Updated: May 25, 2022

South Suburban College Celebrates First Class of Barber College Graduates South Suburban College (SSC) celebrated the first graduating class from its Barber College on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. Called, the “Final Punch Out,” the ceremony was attended by students, faculty, administrators, SSC President, Dr. Lynette D....

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