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Students, get online and complete your course evaluations! Starts at 8 am on July 21 - Ends at 8 am on August 12  The information you provide: - Helps improve the quality of instruction and instructors - Provides feedback to fellow students on instructors and classes - Provides feedback to help instructors improve their classes - May be used to retrain good instructors Instructions on accessing your course evaluations: Log Into MyPage: - Student tab - Online Course Evaluation -   Course Evaluations Click Here Faculty:  Announce in your classes and encourage student participation.  Questions? Contact Melba Taylor 801-957-4110 or melba.taylor@slcc.edu Course Evaluations are completely anonymous! Your name or personal identifying information is NOT REQUIRED to anyone (including instructors). It is simply logged in the system to indicate that you completed your evaluat...

Presented by: Tablado Dance Company y Pasion Flamenca Friday, July 18, 2014 7pm Taylorsville-Redwood Campus Student Event Center Free to Everyone Sponsored by: Academic and Career Advising Peer Mentoring Program, "Una Mano Amiga" Co-Sponsored by: SLCC Staff Association

With the 2014 MLB First Year Player Draft now complete and players reporting for camp, two former Bruins have found a home with an MLB club. Both picked up by the Chicago White Sox, pitcher Tanner Banks was selected in the 18 th round of the MLB Draft while infielder Eddy Alvarez signed a free-agent contract with the club. Tanner Banks Banks was drafted out of the University of Utah where he pitched the past two seasons for the Utes following the 2011 and 2012 seasons for the Bruins. This past season for the Utes he made 18 appearances including eight starts leading to 52 innings pitched. He was third on the club in strikeouts with 39 and did not commit an error in the field. While at SLCC, he recorded an unblemished record of 16-0 in 38 appearances and 16 starts. In 112.2 career innings pitched, Banks racked up 106 strikeouts opposed to 50 walks and only gave up 15 extra base hits in 417 batters faced. Eddy Alvarez Alvarez pla...

Salt Lake Community College has named Nicole Omer director of the Office of Sponsored Projects, which provides oversight of the procurement and stewardship of the College’s publicly funded projects. “Nicole brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in grant management to the College,” said Tim Sheehan, vice president of Government and Community Relations at SLCC. “She has a great understanding and appreciation of the importance of community colleges in higher education, and she is deeply committed to helping the College secure additional funding that will provide for programs, personnel and resources needed to help our students succeed. We are very fortunate to have Nicole lead our Office of Sponsored Projects.” Part of Omer’s job as director will be to ensure the College complies with governmental, funding agency and institutional regulations while also serving as SLCC’s signatory official for grants and related contracts. Omer has worked at SLCC since 2012. She...

The Utah State Board of Regents granted approval for Salt Lake Community College to begin offering a new associate of applied science degree in Health Information Technology. The new program at SLCC will train students in medical records and managing patients’ health information to include medical history, symptoms, examination results, diagnostic tests, treatment methods and all other healthcare provider services. “Health Information Technology is one of the fastest growing employment opportunities in the healthcare field, especially in Utah,” said Ruben Rocha, Health Information Technology program director at SLCC. “The high demand is based on the transition next year to new codes that will add increased specificity to clinical diagnoses. The increased need for the degree is also based on different federal mandates requiring all health organizations to be compliant with several new regulations. In today’s healthcare environment, the Health Information Technology progr...

To keyboardist and Salt Lake Community College student Christian Lucy’s left is his dad on drums, and to lead guitar player and fellow student Quinn Diaz’s right is his dad on lead vocals. Together they help make up the band The Learning Lab, which includes a dean at the school, the College’s provost and a department director at SLCC. On a Monday night after work the staffers and students huddle in an empty modular home on the Taylorsville Redwood Campus to practice for a gig playing a barbecue on campus in two days. Outside the building you can see the windows rattle as they hone in on a cover of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Cold Shot.” Lucy, 20, has been playing keyboards since he was 7. “I was forced into it,” he said with a smile. “But I’m glad I was.” He’s played in a band with his father and the Diaz duo, but not with a roomful of academics. “It’s a little interesting,” Lucy said. “But when you’re all playing music, you’re all at the same le...