For the pipeline company, see Southern Union

Southern Union State Community College is a public, two-year college

College

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 located in Wadley, Alabama

Wadley, Alabama

Wadley is a town in Randolph County, Alabama, United States. It is home to the Wadley campus of Southern Union State Community College. As of the 2000 census, the population of the town is 640.-Geography:Wadley is located at ....

, USA

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. Southern Union offers academic, technical, health science, and social science programs to the east-central Alabama

Alabama

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 and west-central Georgia regions.

Southern Union has branch campuses in Opelika, Alabama

Opelika, Alabama

Opelika is a city in and the county seat of Lee County in the east central part of the U.S. state of Alabama. It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area. According to 2010 Census, the population of Opelika was 26,477...

 and Valley, Alabama

Valley, Alabama

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All three campuses offer an open-door policy to prospective students.

2011 shooting

On Wednesday, April 6, 2011, a gunman killed one and injured at least three others, including a 4-year-old injured by shrapnel, at a shooting on the Opelika campus. The school was closed for the rest of the day. Medical and counseling personnel, and law enforcement officials, were on site. The gunman later revisited the school and readily admitted he was the shooter, whereupon police were summoned. The man was tackled by police and arrested without incident. Police believe he may have been targeting his former partner, and as such, that it is an isolated incident.

External links

• Southern Union State Community College