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Faculty Development Opportunities At-a-Glance Canvas User Credential course opens      Jan. 4 (registration open now)  Deadline for Teaching Awards      Jan. 4 12:00noon ePortfolio Bootcamp      Jan. 7 1-4:00pm Teach Anywhere Workshop      Jan. 7 5-6:00pm New Faculty Orientation      Jan. 7 6-9:00pm Teach Anywhere Workshop      Jan. 8 10:30-11:30am Journaling for Resilience begins      Jan. 11   12-12:30pm Service-Learning Prof. Dev. course opens      Jan. 11-Apr. 1    Faculty Portfolio Consultations                Jan. 12 1:00-2:00pm                                                           ...

  Antonette Gray Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice School of Applied Technology and Technical Specialties   Institute of Public Safety What she teaches: Intro Criminal Justice (CJ-1010): I teach this class to traditional students and non-traditional (students in the Draper Correctional Facility), Introduction to Corrections (CJ-1300), Criminal Law (CJ-1330), Criminal Investigations (CJ-1340), Introduction to Policing (CJ-2300), Laws of Evidence (CJ-2350), Introduction to Victimology (CJ-2410) Number of years teaching at SLCC: I started in 2017 as an adjunct faculty, then became a Diverse Faculty Fellow and then was promoted to Assistant Professor in 2020 Undergraduate degree: University of the West Indies (Mona), Kingston, Jamaica Master’s: Monmouth University, New Jersey Doctorate: Capella University (ABD) Why working at SLCC matters: My philosophy is “To whom much is given, much is required”. SLCC’s vision, mission and core values reflect my personal beliefs about servic...

  We’ve made it through an extraordinary and difficult year! Congratulations on persevering through Fall semester and for doing your part to prevent COVID-19 at SLCC. During the last four months, our case count has been low, and we’ve experienced very little spread of the virus on campus. Thank you for helping keep our community safe and healthy. With the end of each semester comes the start of a new one, and preventing the spread of COVID-19 will continue to be a priority for SLCC during the next few months. One mitigation effort we will employ is COVID testing for all on-campus students, faculty and staff as early in the semester as possible. If you will be on campus at least one day per week during Spring semester, please make the time to get tested. To help in this, SLCC is implementing the following testing schedule :   • January 5-7 , from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Taylorsville Redwood Campus Student Center. • Starting January 11 , testing will be available Monday thr...

Surgical tech grad Bridget Loggins in the lab where she trained at SLCC. A glorious end was in sight for a crop of surgical technologist students at Salt Lake Community College this past spring – poised to perform their hard-earned skills in clinical rotations before taking the national board exam. Then everything shut down or was moved to remote instruction in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinicals would have to wait. Awful. Disappointing. They are words Emily Johnson and Bridget Loggins use to describe having their plans blown out of the water. For Emily, who has a four-year-old daughter, she saw money set aside for bills start to dwindle as one month of waiting turned into three. The protracted pause put a wrench in Bridget’s family life, trying to juggle logistics for three children, ages 4, 8 and 14. “I was anxious to finish and start working,” Bridget says. The road to becoming a surgical technologist at SLCC is designed to take about 10 months. With ea...

  Culinary arts student Eve Jones focuses on the future of The Green Pig, which her family runs. Braden Roundy and Steffan Joensen hope to someday open their own restaurants. Eve Jones’ family already owns one, a popular Salt Lake City pub with a full menu – she’d like to manage it someday. Firmly rooted in their dreams, each is in the early stages of pursuing a degree through Salt Lake Community College’s Culinary Institute. But in an industry saddled with closures, cutbacks and drastic changes because of the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re also witnessing first-hand while on the job and in school just what makes the careers that they vow to pursue seem as vulnerable as they are viable. “There is still work to be found, and many businesses in our world are still hiring,” assures Jeffrey Coker, associate dean of SLCC’s Culinary Arts program . “We, like everyone else, are waiting for the fog to lift so we can get back to our passion.” Jeffrey and his instructors during the pandemic have ...

    **Please note that the following opportunities are available to all faculty and staff.**   LinkedIn Learning   Developing your Emotional Intelligence  ~1 hr. 8 minutes Emotional intelligence can help you build effective relationships at work. Executive coach and organizational psychologist Gemma Roberts explains what emotional intelligence is and why it's important. She helps you become more self-aware so that you can identify triggers that may hijack your performance. She also helps you align your intentions and your impact so that you can build strong and collaborative relationships.   Learning Outcomes: ·        What is emotional intelligence? ·        Watching for triggers and hijacks ·        Finding flow ·        Disrupting thinking   All employees can utilize LinkedIn Learning: SLCC Learn Training Regist...