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Maria S. Farrington and Jim M. Wall have been selected to serve as chair and vice chair of the Salt Lake Community College Board of Trustees. Farrington is a community leader with more than 24 years of experience in local not-for-profit organizations and schools. She currently owns a non-profit consulting business, and she is a former executive director for Holy Cross Ministries. She has also held leadership positions at the Discovery Gateway Children’s Museum in Salt Lake City, the United Way of Salt Lake and the Eccles Annenberg Initiative at the Salt Lake City School District. Farrington was appointed to the SLCC Board of Trustees in 2015 and was elected as the board’s vice chair in 2017. She also represents the SLCC Trustees on the SLCC Foundation Board, where she has championed many fundraising activities for the college. Wall worked as publisher of the Deseret News Publishing Company, Inc. and as director of the Bonneville International Corporation ...

Kristel Alpaca (l-r), Maria Angel, Isaac Richardson, Kiara Allred, Hayden Kidd and Sandra Popayan Kristel Alpaca graduated in 2018 from Salt Lake Community College with an associate’s degree in business. But there she was recently on a warm summer day at 6 p.m. on the Taylorsville Redwood Campus, tennis racquet in hand and ready to learn with her friend Sandra Popayan. The two were among 12 who had enrolled in Clinton Broadhead’s Tennis II, which teaches students to adjust their strokes “according to power, control, height of bounces, speeds and angles." It’s a course designed for fun, competition and encourages lifelong participation. The “fun” part is what attracts many students like Alpaca, 23, who has an SLCC Zumba class under her belt, and Popayan, 40, new to tennis and loving it. Kiara Allred unleashes a serve. Isaac Richardson and Hayden Kidd needed the single course credit from a loaded Lifelong Wellness catalog to fulfill a degree require...

Ron Valcarce Professor Chemistry School of: Science, Mathematics & Engineering     What he teaches: Organic Chemistry Number of years teaching at SLCC: 25 Undergraduate: Utah State University Master’s : Utah State University Ron Valcarce teaches high school students the science behind making lip balm in the lab. Why working at SLCC matters: It has been my honor to teach at Salt Lake Community College, a place where students can and do change their lives.   During my time here at SLCC working with my colleagues in the chemistry department, we have helped countless students find success in our classrooms and transition to become scientists, pharmacists, doctors, dentists and physician assistants. We have former students practicing successfully in all areas of the scientific and healthcare fields.   Many, if not most of them, would not be in those professional positions if it were not for SLCC, wh...

Staff and faculty at Salt Lake Community College pitched in recently to show young students all of the cool and interesting stuff they’ll experience when they begin taking classes at SLCC. The students were from East, Highland and West high schools, taking part in the PACE (Partnerships for Accessing College Education) Career Explorations week held each June. PACE is a scholarship program at SLCC created to increase participation in higher education and graduation rates for high school students. Students visited the Miller Campus to see what happens at the Culinary Institute, in the automotive program and with academic paths in various areas of public safety. At the South City and Westpointe campuses, they learned about video game design, making music, welding, graphic design and aviation maintenance. Students received a dose of health sciences at the Jordan Campus, and then finished up on the Taylorsville Redwood Campus with experiments in chemistry ...