{"id":1145,"date":"2019-03-15T07:38:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T13:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2019-03-25T08:22:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T14:22:06","slug":"ssc-and-seminole-public-schools-partnership-honored-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/ssc-and-seminole-public-schools-partnership-honored-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SSC and City of Seminole Partnership Honored"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seminole State College and the City of Seminole were among colleges, schools and businesses honored during a Business Partnership Excellence Awards Luncheon held Tuesday, March 12, at The University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond. <\/p>\n\n\n

The award,\nsponsored by Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education (OSRHE), annually\nhonors outstanding partnerships that lead to significant contributions in\neducating and developing Oklahoma\u2019s workforce. Seminole\nState College and City of Seminole have worked cooperatively for decades, and\ntheir partnership has helped improve the economic climate of Seminole. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From (l-r) are: Seminole Mayor-Elect Jeff Griffin, Vice Mayor Bill Wantland, SSC President Lana Reynolds, Seminole City Manager Steve Saxon, Council Member Larry Church, SSC Rural Business and Resources Center Director Larry Smith.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since the\nCollege\u2019s separation from the local high school in 1969, the city has stepped\nforward to assist with SSC\u2019s critical needs. Working with Seminole citizens, a\nsales tax was passed to fund SSC until state funding could be put in place, and\nthe city donated 40 acres for the campus building site. Decades later, city\nleaders proposed a sales tax extension to support the building of a new\nresidence hall, providing much-needed housing for the campus. In 2017, SSC took\non a project to build a multi-million dollar \u201cField of Dreams\u201d sports complex\nto serve as the home of SSC Trojan Baseball, as well as a venue for regional\nand state baseball, soccer and softball tournaments. Realizing the potential\neconomic impact of such a facility on the community, the city committed\n$450,000 to the project for water, sewer, and street improvements.\nAdditionally, the city\u00b4s tourism council committed an additional $100,000 for\nconstruction costs and to fund a full-time project recruiter for tournaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are so honored to have our partnership with the City of Seminole recognized through this awards program.  We know that we are lucky to have such strong support from our community \u2013 and that begins with the City of Seminole.”<\/p>
SSC President Lana Reynolds. <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

For more\ninformation about the OSRHE business partnership award, visit www.okhighered.org\/RBPE<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seminole State College and the City of Seminole were among colleges, schools and businesses honored during a Business Partnership Excellence Awards Luncheon held Tuesday, March 12, at The University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,4],"tags":[68,66],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-http-www-sscok-edu-media-educationalfoundation","tag-educational-foundation","tag-march-2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sscok.edu\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}