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   SLCC President Greg Peterson, SLCC Dean of the Business School Trish Gorman, Gail Miller and her husband, Kim Wilson. Salt Lake City Community College (SLCC) hosted a groundbreaking ceremony on November 8, celebrating the start of construction for the Larry H. and Gail Miller Business Building at its Taylorsville Redwood Campus.  The groundbreaking marks a transformative step toward modernizing the existing structure into a state-of-the-art facility that will empower future leaders for generations to come. The new building will house the Gail Miller Business School, the first business school in Utah and one of only a few nationwide to be named exclusively after a woman. The school will provide an innovative space designed to inspire and prepare the next generation of Utah’s business leaders.   “Supporting every student who walks through the doors of Salt Lake Community College’s Business School is an investment in their potential and their future. The vision of this building is to c

In 2021,  Frances Haugen  hit a breaking point in her job as a lead product manager on Facebook’s Civic Misinformation team. Haugen, an engineer and a data scientist, went public with what she had learned while working at Facebook (a.k.a. Meta, Inc.).   She blew the whistle loud, telling her story in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Daily Podcast , on 60 minutes , and before Congress. She provided testimony and proof—with tens of thousands of internal documents—that showed Facebook knew its algorithms were contributing to the spread of ethnic violence and hatred as well as deepening harm to the self-esteem of its youngest users, especially girls.   On Thursday, November 7, Haugen will be in Salt Lake City to speak about what she knew then and what parents and users of social media should know now.     She is the keynote speaker at Salt Lake Community College’s Community Conversation event, which is part of the College’s Speaker Series. This event is free and open to the publ

What is it like to win an Emmy? SLCC student Valene Peratrovich has an idea. She is a co-producer of the film "Diverted," which recently won a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) award, considered an equivalent to an Emmy for film students. Along with Valene, seven other SLCC students, co-producer McCaulee Blackburn and crew members Kolby Butts, Chris Kirkham, Cristian Martinez, Tristin McCarthy, Preston Buttars, and Chris McAllister—were thrilled to learn that their film took first place, beating competitors from schools like BYU. The film highlights the collective approach of Indigenous people to land stewardship and addressing environmental issues. This approach emphasizes the interconnectedness of all natural things. For Valene, honoring the Lake and advocating for its spirit were her primary motivations for working on the project. She hopes the film will help to gather enough support to have the Lake officially recognized as an entity with rights, a

  A Conversation with Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen, who is the keynote at SLCC’s Speaker Series on Nov. 7.   Frances Haugen hit a breaking point where she could no longer abide the “madness.” In 2021, she left her job as a lead product manager on Facebook’s Civic Misinformation team, disillusioned by the company’s practices. Then Haugen, as product manager and a data scientist, went public with what she had learned while working at Facebook.    She blew the whistle loud, telling her story in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times Daily Podcast , on 60 minutes , and before Congress. Haugen provided testimony and proof—with tens of thousands of pages of internal documents—that showed Facebook knew its algorithms were contributing to political polarization, ethnic violence, and societal hatred. These same algorithms damaged self-esteem and confidence in young users, particularly girls.   Facebook, now known as “Meta”, following its concerted attempt to rebrand and avoid acco