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Salt Lake Community College listened to our students' feedback, and is excited to announce classes will be scheduled with more convenience and flexibility in mind starting Fall 2018. After conducting research with current students, we found students prefer classes that meet twice per week instead of three times. The new default class schedule will be Monday/Wednesday, Tuesday/Thursday, or Friday/Saturday for 80 minutes, with classes starting every hour and a half beginning at 7 a.m.* In addition, there will be more evening classes scheduled meeting one night each week for three hours.  With multiple locations across the Salt Lake Valley, more convenient class schedules and over 200 courses online, SLCC remains committed to providing greater access to all students. We hope these changes make it easier for students to create a schedule that provides flexibility for their busy work and family obligations.  Registration for Fall 2018 begins on April 9th – regist...

New England Patriots wide receiver and award-winning children’s book author Malcolm J. Mitchell will give the keynote speech during Salt Lake Community College’s 2018 commencement ceremony May 4. Malcolm J. Mitchell Mitchell is well known for his role as wide receiver on the New England Patriots and helping the team win a Super Bowl in 2017. But in literary circles, particularly among young readers, he’s been receiving a lot of attention off the playing field. While a student athlete at the University of Georgia, Mitchell was recognized as the National Captain of the Allstate Good Works Team for his frequent visits to elementary schools to read to students and talk about literacy, the first student ever at UGA to win this honor. He also received the National Haier Achievement Award for his success beyond athletics. During his freshman year in college, Mitchell developed a love of reading. Initially, reading was a challenge. Through perseverance, bo...

Dr. Ashok Joshi and Dr. Pam Perlich have been chosen to receive honorary doctorates as part of Salt Lake Community College’s 2018 commencement ceremonies on May 4. About 15 years ago, the award-winning scientist and now philanthropist Dr. Joshi told himself, ‘Giving back will give me the biggest happiness.’ He started in his home country India, at first funding a mobile library that relied on people with bicycles to rotate books weekly between 21 schools in rural villages. From there he began building and expanding schools, including one in Wai that serves mentally-challenged children that was in danger of closing. “I said, ‘Well, that’s not acceptable to me. Those children are God’s children. Tell me what I should do for you.’” Dr. Ashok Joshi What began in India spilled over into Joshi’s involvement locally with colleges and their students, who he still mentors today on an individual basis. He has funded trips for students to India to help out in schoo...

Salt Lake Community College recently received national and regional awards for work with students and the college community. The Institutional Marketing and Communications department received honors from the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations at this year's Paragon Awards in Las Vegas. The annual awards recognize outstanding achievement in design and communication at community and technical colleges. This year, more than 230 two-year colleges in North America submitted over 1,900 entries. The college received four awards for marketing and public relations efforts, as well as the prestigious Best in Show Award for their work on enrollment efforts. Best in Show | Successful Recruitment or Marketing Campaign Gold | Successful Recruitment or Marketing Campaign Gold | Social Media or Online Marketing Campaign Gold | Video Shorts-Series Gold | Wild Card The college was also recognized by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) at...

Salt Lake Community College held its annual Academic Excellence Celebration, an event that includes a special pinning ceremony between students and their families and friends. Featured speakers this year included welding student Christina Noinaj and communications assistant professor Jodie Jones. The event is also an opportunity for students and their guests to break out the cell phones and cameras for lots of photos of this proud moment in their academic careers.

Everyone is invited to the Bruin Send-Off Thursday, March 15, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Event Center of the Student Center on the Salt Lake Community College Taylorsville Redwood Campus. Both the men's (30-3 for the season) and women's (26-5) basketball teams are headed to the NJCAA national tournaments. The women will play in Lubbock, Texas for a first-round matchup March 19 against ASA Brooklyn. The men received a first-round bye and are scheduled March 21 to play the winner of the South Plains and Highland game. The event Thursday will feature free food, "minute-to-win-it" games and a chance to meet the players and coaches and wish them well. Congratulations and best of luck to both teams! Go Bruins!

Girls in grades 6-10 from around the Salt Lake Valley gathered at Salt Lake Community College's South City Campus to meet female role models from within the community to experience hands-on STEM activities (science, technology, engineering and math). The annual Expanding Your Horizons conference is designed to motivate young women to pursue STEM fields, where typically females are underrepresented. The keynote speaker was Gretchen McClain, an engineer and businesswoman in Utah who is known for working with NASA to help build the International Space Station. Below are a few highlights from the event. Keynote speaker Gretchen McClain