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Westpointe Community Night drew more than 400 guests to see the new Westpointe Workforce Training & Education Center . Volunteers with Salt Lake Community College gave people guided tours as children played games and food trucks provided free meals. Strategically located in Salt Lake City’s industrial Northwest Quadrant, Westpointe will be integral to the Wasatch Front’s long-term economic vitality. This vibrant new facility will support the community’s training needs in a flexible, high-quality space that will benefit business, industry and the surrounding community for decades. The 121,000-square-foot building will provide space for collaboration with industry partners in multiple fields and will provide students interested in technical careers with a one-of-a-kind, one-stop educational center.  It will allow SLCC to fulfill its mission as Salt Lake County’s primary post-secondary provider of workforce education.

As summer term winds down and preparations begin for fall semester, Salt Lake Community College will temporarily close each of its campus bookstores in order to conduct inventory control. Bookstore closures will be as follows: Tuesday, July 31 South City Campus Bookstore – Closes at noon Jordan Campus Bookstore – Open Taylorsville Campus Bookstore – Open Wednesday, August 1 South City Campus Bookstore – Closed Jordan Campus Bookstore – Closes at noon Taylorsville Campus Bookstore – Open Thursday, August 2 South City Campus Bookstore – Closed Jordan Campus Bookstore – Closed Taylorsville Campus Bookstore – Closes at noon Friday, August 3 South City Campus Bookstore – Open Jordan Campus Bookstore – Closed Taylorsville Campus Bookstore – Closed Monday, August 6 All campus bookstores open Textbook Buyback will be available at all stores during the closures. Buyback tables will be located at the front door of each location, and testing supplies will also be availab

Things have changed in the diesel world. Diesel service shops are now clean, filled with technology and highly skilled people who have to know as much (if not more) about computers as they do traditional mechanical things. Diesel trucks today have an average of 17 computers in them. Along with learning the mechanics, students learn many computer-based systems and information technology. Nate Ferrara, a diesel service technician with Salt Lake Community College's School of Applied Technology , appeared on Fox 13's The Place to talk about job growth in the diesel industry and what role SLCC plays in training diesel technicians. By 2022, it is expected that 67,000 Baby Boomers will retire from the diesel tech profession. There are currently more than 2,800 job postings in Utah for technicians, which is above the national average. SLCC has several tracks to choose from for diesel technology: Diesel Service Technician (8-9 month